Norman, Was That You?

Mary Peters is in as new secretary of the Dept. of Transportation. So reports the Wash Post here.

Tough question: What hapless nobody is she replacing?

Useless hint: He loved Amtrak.

Useless headline allusion: Refers not only to outgoing transportation secretary–and the only Democrat in Bush's cabinet–but to a thankfully forgotten 1976 drag comedy here and then wonder no more why Ford lost if this was the sort of enthusiasm his supporters mustered.