Thursday, July 10, 2008
John McCain Thinks You're a Whiner
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
McCain is so Insanely Old
You have to go to Things Younger Than John McCain for a complete list and belive me it is a long list...penicillian is even younger than McCain! I don't have any real point to this except to state again that John McCain is old, really really really old.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
John McCain Hates Trains
TRAIN TRAVEL is finally becoming a third rail of politics. The first one to fry over it might be John McCain.Could McCain get even less visionary? Of course he can.For years, McCain, in the comfort of cheap gasoline for autos and airplanes, made Amtrak a personal whipping boy. Despite the fact that governments in Western Europe and Asia zoomed far ahead of the United States by supporting high-speed trains to relieve congestion, promote tourism and now as we are coming to know, save the planet, McCain has spent considerable capital in denying the passenger rail system the capital to modernize.
In 2000, when he was chairman of the Senate Science, Commerce and Transportation committee, McCain killed $10 billion in capital funding for Amtrak. He denounced Amtrak as a symbol of government waste, claiming, "There's only two parts of the country that can support a viable rail system - the Northeast and the far West."
In the section of McCain's website called "reforming our transportation sector," there is no mention of rail.from: McCain's agenda on Amtrak