The New York Times is optimistic about the secretary of housing and urban development's resignation. "[Alfonso] Jackson’s resignation clears the way for Mr. Bush to name a top-caliber successor," they say.

Yes, it certainly does. It also clears the way for Wolverine of the X-Men to replace our government with a mutant tribunal and then control the galaxy with a space-based network of Energy Javelins. But something tells me that's not going to happen either.