[From the diaries by susanhu. This is big. (News search results.) David Gunn is widely considered the best possible administrator of Amtrak. The Bush Administration’s Amtrak board appointees are clearly trying to destroy Amtrak. We need to contact our senators and reps.]
Just got this emailed to me from a former gov’t official and want to hear from anyone who knows more. I can’t believe Bush is still moving on stuff like this, even as he circles the drain. I like the phrase ‘perverted it’s management’.
“The Amtrak board has abruptly fired its president, David Gunn today, and has publicly insulted him. This really is stunning; he is probably the very best manager Amtrak has ever had, and the action of the board pretty much removes all doubt from my mind that the White House is out to kill Amtrak. Having failed to do so through Congress, they have perverted its management. This is an act of incredible arrogance and recklessness — meaning it is consistent with everything else the Bush administration has done. But it’s very sad; it’s quite possible that recovery from this error will be impossible during our lifetimes.”
Sounds like Bush’s work, right? They’re turning our government into the monster they’ve claimed it was all along: corrupt, inefficient and inept.
