According to John Kerry, the Massachusetts senator who admits to having innocent blood on his hands, Bush’s new pick to head the Federal Highway Administration is an incompetent horse judge.
”I’m afraid Richard Capka could be the Brownie of highways,” said Kerry from a location apparently outside of Davos.
Kerry’s statement is based on a loose analysis of Capka’s brief tenure as head of the Big Dig in Boston. During Capka’s time on the project its costs increased by about $600 million from $14 billion to $14.6 billion. Prior to his arrival the project had ballooned from an original cost of approximately $2 billion.
Unlike Michael Brown, assigned to lead an emergency response agency with prior experience leading an Arabian horse association, Capka, a retired general, comes to the FHWA after a 29 year career with the Army Corps of Engineers. He is a professional engineer with graduate degrees in management and engineering (John Kerry graduated Yale with a GPA lower than that of President Bush).
The only thing more exciting than a Kerry ‘08 campaign would be watching Howard Dean make another go at it.