But TTC as I originally saw it, with parallel lines for 18-wheelers, etc. -- heck yeah. I-35, which I drive on daily, is two lane each direction. I'm in a compact car competing with freight and all kinds of huge trucks. And in jams, etc. It's insane.
Let me explain about not everything coming from perry's admin. being evil: It was also Perry's administration's idea to have girls in public schools inoculated against HPV. Reducing chances of cervical cancer in them greatly. I thought that actually sounded reasonable. One of the few things I think I've ever, ever supported him. Parents could opt-out. (That part was not highly publicized.)
Who were Perry's enemies on this? Conservatives! The vaccine would cause female promiscuity! And then right-wing AM radio went on that Perry had made some shady back-room deal with Merck to make the vaccine standardized. What the fuck! This, even when study after study had shown the vaccine would reduce cancer! I couldn't believe it. The one time he comes up with something good, the Bible-thumpers mobilize against it.
It was one of the few times I was on Perry's side about something. I can't stand the guy, and, yeah, like Molly Ivins said, his hair IS uncannily good, and he's a Republican friends with Bush, etc. But come on! Vaccinating young girls againt cervical cancer -- how could anyone oppose that? Well, conservatives found a way: It'd lead to whoredom, or something.
So, the fact that a public infrastructure project originated from Kerry's administration does not disqualify it for me automatically. Getting what amounted to cervical cancer vaccinations sounded good to me, but folks found a way to oppose that, too. If they wanna come up with some way to also oppose repairing crumbling US infrastructure, well, fine, let's just keep shooting ourselves in the foot, any angle we can get at it from: It was proposed by a Republican, it's environmentally unsound, etc.
-B.
Anthony Kennerson wrote:
"First off: the TTC is NOT neccessarily an international or even a national proposal, it is the brain(less)child of Texas Governor Bill 'Goodhair' Perry and his grafters at the Texas Highway Commission who would prefer that all major controlled access highway infrastructure be sold off to private interests or converted to toll roads because raising the gasoline tax and other means to fund public infrastructure is nothing short of Godless Communism."