Fantasizing About Amazing Women On US Stamps

Although the Maya Angelou stamp quote fiasco has been beaten to death by now, I found this to be an interesting read as to some "fantasy" US Stamp ideas and quotes featuring (mostly) women who are still living:

http://fusion.net/story/117493/the-...-on-postage/

Meh. They are all political liberals so the sampling is hardly a balanced view of American life, and the jury is still out on whether some of them achieved anything of real impact in the life of the country as opposed to living just a slightly prominent life. Even if USPS has set the bar pretty low.

Since when is a "balanced view of American life" a determinant of who or what is pictured on US stamps? Would that old cynic Mark Twain have been featured if this criterion was being used? Or John Steinbeck because of his sympathetic depiction of migrants from the Dust Bowl? Or any of our highly political presidents, which is every single one of them? And, anyway, how would such an abstraction as "a balanced view of American life" be determined and measured?