Ideas Hatched In A Bar Are The Best Ideas

by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I guess this was in the Huffington Post a couple months ago, but I had missed it.  Today the New York Times brings the news about a group of satirists in San Francisco with an inspired idea and a dream:

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide "an appropriate honor for a truly unique president."

Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.

There's really no more fitting honor for America's worst President.  I would fund this initiative.