Crisis on the roadways

A lawmaker in New Haven, Conn. has decided it's time to honor President Bush with his own stretch of highway:

There used to be a highway sign welcoming people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it was vandalized so much, it got too expensive to keep replacing it.

So it came as a surprise to Democrats here that a lawmaker wants to rename a stretch of highway through the heart of the city the President George W. Bush Highway.

After all, Bush doesn't often claim New Haven as his own.

Although he's a graduate of Yale University, he prefers the Texas leather cowboy look to Yale's tweed and corduroy.

The liberal center of a decidedly blue state, New Haven feels about the same way, voting 4-to-1 not to re-elect him. With the Bush administration urging a shift of highway funding toward the Midwest and South, Mayor John DeStefano found the naming choice ironic.

"We should name a traffic jam after him, not a highway," said DeStefano, a Democrat running for governor.