First Order of Business for the New Congress November 9, 2006
Posted by danjeffers in Washington DC.add a comment
Some say it should be the war, but that’s going to be a long complicated mess. It’s like Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld were standing over a computer and Rumsfeld poured a diet coke into the workings. The computer is broken, and firing Rummy won’t fix it. There’s going to be a lot of work. Same with many of the elements of society that have slowly deteriorated under the current incompetent administration. None of them will be an easy fix.
What can be fixed, though, is the name of National Airport. National is DC’s airport. DC is a stongly democratic place with very little power to run its own affairs. Somehow, Congress thought that the best way to honor someone who was
A) Unpopular in DC
B) An advocate of local control
Was to override any semblance of local control and name DCs airport after the man. I doubt he would have appreciated it, and I know we don’t. So Congress, first order of business, change the name back to what it really is: National Airport.
