The Tyranny of High Speed Rail

We really are dealing with biggest douche bags in the history of the universe: (via john cole)

In his State of the Union address this year, the president called for buildinghigh-speed rail, and backed up his words with $8 billion in stimulus money, distributed to various states, for rail projects.

But Republican candidates for governor in some of the states that won the biggest stimulus rail awards are reaching for the emergency brake.

In Wisconsin, which got more than $810 million in federal stimulus money to build a train line between Milwaukee and Madison, Scott Walker, the Milwaukee County executive and Republican candidate for governor, has made his opposition to the project central to his campaign.

Mr. Walker, who worries that the state could be required to spend $7 million to $10 million a year to operate the trains once the line is built, started a Web site, NoTrain.com, and has run a television advertisement in which he calls the rail project a boondoggle. “I’m Scott Walker,” he says in the advertisement, “and if I’m elected as your next governor, we’ll stop this train.”

You could say that worrying about paying the maintenance costs of an economy expanding high speed train line that HE'S GETTING FOR FREE is the dumbest part, but it's not even that's the real reason. Since "notrain.com" is nothing but donate button and a place where you can "Say no to Obama" by giving them your email address, I'm guessing this is just another way to convince the idiots in your base that you too can stand up to Obama's Gay Train Marxism by giving Republicans more money.

Of all the stupid shit you see, I honestly never thought I'd see people campaigning against high speed rail... but here we are.