[NormsRevenge]

If he gets fired, will they take his name off of the airport here in San Jose? Please!!

71 and in his shape .. Now is the time for him to just step aside.

[Publius]

I got word from Texas tonight that Dubya is planning on a major federal infrastructure program to be announced this spring as a way to get people back to work. (Shades of FDR!)

There will be a major rail component to this program because the Defense Dept. has declared 30,000 miles of track to be critical to the national defense. Word is that the future of Amtrak will be tied to this initiative, i.e. there will be massive amounts of federal pork for the Class I railroads to rebuild if they form a consortium to take Amtrak from the government and run it privately.

There are couple of names in the air for Mineta's replacement. Tommy Thompson is one. (He badly wanted the job two years ago.) Another is Gil Carmichael, chair of the Amtrak Reform Council and confidant of both Bushes.

Something big is brewing.

[djr]

So that's where this pandering pc name came from. My own pet peeve can be found at http://www.sjsu.edu/. I just can't get enough of that tilde in San Jose State University - adds such a pleasant 3rd world touch to the wannabe university of Silicon Valley.