Bridge to Nowhere: With criminal investigation looming, will GOP strip Kit Bond's name off public infrastructure?

With talk of a criminal investigation involving Kit Bond swirling, some GOP legislators may be re-thinking their shameless and long-standing practice of naming public infrastructure after him.

Their thinking might go like this: rather than waiting for the next shoe of a criminal investigation to drop and then awkwardly scrambling to strip Bond's name off public infrastructure, perhaps it's better to quietly remove Bond's name now.  The fate of the last "King of Earmarks," Ted Stevens, can't be far from their minds either.

Let the re-branding begin.­