Dear Republican Bashers:

It is one thing to promote biking and anything to do with biking on this list, but to now expand your little tirade which began  in the middle of last night, has no call on this site.  Maybe you should debate: "How many Republicans can Dance on the Head of a Pin?"

EW

[email protected] wrote:
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."
    


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