Keeping America Stupid: Dept of Irony

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While I am sure this Texan asshat woun't recognize irony if it hit him over the head with an I-Beam, the ridiculousness of his complaint merits this repost from the Wall Street Journal. 'Cause, y'know, big government spending is tyranny and public transportation is, y'know, socialist. So why didn't you spend more gubernmt money on...oh WAIT...we don't like gubment! Unless we think we want somethin'...And dang, we teabaggers had to pay more money to use, like, those capialist taxies! Damn your facist trains!

Tea Party Protesters Protest D.C. Metro Service

Brody Mullins reports on money and politics.

Protesters who attended Saturday’s Tea Party rally in Washington found a new reason to be upset: Apparently they are unhappy with the level of service provided by the subway system.

Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.

Seriously.

The Texas Republican on Wednesday released a letter he sent to Washington’s Metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable to properly transport protesters to the rally to protest government spending and expansion.

“These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,” Brady wrote. “These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation’s capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them.”

A spokesman for Brady says that “there weren’t enough cars and there weren’t enough trains.” Brady tweeted as much from the Saturday march. “METRO did not prepare for Tea Party March! More stories. People couldn’t get on, missed start of march. I will demand answers from Metro,” he wrote on Twitter.

Brady says in his letter to Metro that overcrowding forced an 80-year-old woman and elderly veterans in wheelchairs to pay for cabs. He concludes that it “appears that Metro added no additional capacity to its regular weekend schedule.

Comments

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On Sundays in 1990, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) ran five-car trains every half-hour. On Pride day, they ran ten-car trains every half-hour. The stations were packed.

Running a five-car train every quarter-hour would be more sensible, and to run a ten-car train---only inside SF, which they can do---would be actually intelligent. But they didn't.

BART is a reasonably intelligently-run system with decent---though not great---operating hours. I expect DC Metro does/did about the same as BART.

TeaBaggers are just pinheads and complainers, people who wholeheartedly swallow everything hate-radio feeds them. Their stance on DC Metro shows their no-thought me-Me-ME! outlook on the universe. This is why they are illogical, and why I have no sympathy for them!

Anyway, the big-bucks people behind the whole fleabag-teabag "movement" can damn well pay for taxis! Considering what they spend on propaganda films, the cost of a few taxis would hardly be noticeable.

Perhaps the complaint against spending money on taxis is that the money then helps support working people---in the form of the taxi drivers. In their universe, that money should, by divine right, go to the rich.