wanswheel
From the picture that leads the video - a new toupee should be the next thing he does/gets.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-05-09/news/9302100764_1_hair-transplants-milton-pitts-rep-john-mica
zugmann wanswheel I won’t be surprised if Mica is appointed Secretary of something, if not transportation. Once again, someone who speaks out against gov't spending will keep sucking at the government teat. Have to love those hypocrites and the fools who believe them.
wanswheel I won’t be surprised if Mica is appointed Secretary of something, if not transportation.
Once again, someone who speaks out against gov't spending will keep sucking at the government teat. Have to love those hypocrites and the fools who believe them.
The government spending is only bad if it isn't going into THEIR pocket.
Mica has some weird obsession with Amtrak's food-service and amenity costs and should be banished into obscurity.
BaltACD wanswheel From the picture that leads the video - a new toupee should be the next thing he does/gets.
Our vanity and self-deception know no bounds. Not even our eyes will tell us the truth when we look in the mirror. (For the truth, we need a photograph.) I can't fault the rug -- the impulse to cover up -- so much as the color, as if the wearer expects us to buy a 19-year-old head of hair on a gray, 75-year-old face.
Colors not found in nature we have learned to indulge in old women. Maybe we old men just need a little more time for credibility.
The Orlando Sentinel endorsed Hillary, and probably doesn’t get read much at Trump Tower, but
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/editorials/os-ed-mica-for-transportation-20161122-story.html
Mica for U.S. Transportation secretary: Where We Stand
President-elect Donald Trump has made some controversial early picks for top jobs in his new administration. But there's at least one name in the running for his Cabinet who has the qualifications to be a consensus choice: just-defeated Congressman John Mica of Winter Park for transportation secretary.
Mica, a 12-term Republican, was ousted this month by Democrat Stephanie Murphy, a first-time candidate from Winter Park, in a district that lost its advantage for GOP candidates after a court-ordered redrawing of the state's congressional boundaries. Soon after the election, he confirmed he would be interested in serving as transportation secretary. Though 73, he's not quite ready to retire yet.
There are certainly parochial reasons for Central Floridians to hope Trump would choose Mica. As a chairman and senior member of the House Transportation Committee, Mica succeeded in steering billions of federal dollars to an array of transformative projects in this region, including the ongoing Interstate 4 makeover, SunRail and the expansion of Orlando International Airport. These projects have leveraged billions more in state, local and private investments. They've created thousands of jobs. They will boost the region's economy and enhance its quality of life for decades to come.
As U.S. transportation chief, Mica would need to weigh fairly competing demands from all 50 states. Yet he would be in a strong position to keep funds flowing from Washington, D.C., to worthy priorities in Central Florida, and build on his earlier accomplishments. Ironically, his elevation would ease some of the pressure on Murphy to maintain the region's momentum on transportation.
Mica's qualifications for this Cabinet post go beyond his success in lining up funding for projects in and around his district. As Transportation chairman, he also directed federal dollars to complete other major projects around the country, including expanded commuter rail service in New York City and improvements to Seattle's main airport.
Mica's experience and judgment in identifying good, strategic investments for taxpayers would be invaluable if Trump follows through with his campaign promise to launch a massive program to build or upgrade roads, bridges, airports, railways and other transportation infrastructure across the nation. Through his relationships in Congress, Mica could help the program secure crucial support from skeptical Republican leaders.
Mica has other experience from his time on Capitol Hill that would be ideal for the next transportation secretary. During his tenure as Transportation chairman, while the rest of Congress was often gridlocked, he brokered bipartisan deals. His panel passed major bills to renew and streamline highway and transit funding, modernize aviation regulations and programs, improve pipeline safety, and revamp oversight for the Coast Guard.
Mica is cut from the same cloth as other respected transportation secretaries who came from the U.S. House: President Barack Obama's first transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, a Republican from Illinois; and President George W. Bush's first transportation secretary, Norm Mineta, a Democrat from California. Both LaHood and Mineta, like Mica, earned reputations for bipartisan legislating before they took over the Transportation Department.
Trump won the White House as an outsider, but to succeed he'll need the help of appointees who know policy inside and out, and don't need a map to find their way around Washington. Mica as transportation secretary is a good pick for Trump, for Central Florida, and for the rest of the country.
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