As much as I'd like to firmly apply the "superhighway socialist" label to Boehner, he actually does have a record of trying (and failing) to eliminate the federal highway pork that is the main culprit behind our so-called "crumbling bridges and highways" that got a $16 bil bailout from congress last year. He also opposed the automaker bailout, though that opposition may have been partially an effort to oppose requiring automakers to invest in "green" technologies.
I believe anti-bike comments like this are exemplary of the primary fault with conservative thought: Nobody, not even a conservative, is going to support cutting government services that benefit them - so that means the primary victims of the conservative pruning shears have to be minority groups that lack the political power to remove conservatives from elected office. It is quite ironic that stripping government benefits from minority groups has become the mission of a party that was originally founded on a platform of granting benefits to a minority group. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Bikies] Republicans: Bike paths are not infrastructure > From: "Michael D. Barrett" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, January 12, 2009 9:40 am [snip] > ".... But infrastructure, I think there's a place for infrastructure. > But what kind of infrastructure? Infrastructure to widen highways to > ease congestion for American families? Is it to build some buildings > that are necessary? But if we're talking about beautification > projects or we're talking about bike paths, Americans are not going > to look very kindly on this." _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
