DCist: House Passes Amended Metro Funding Bill

perkinsms

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:15:51 -0500

No, wait. There he goes. Sen. Coburn's blocking it. Just like last time.

IMGoph

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:00:32 -0500

oh jesus, monkey, i have seen the light. plus, you just made me snort yogurt out my nose. maybe!

Politburo

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:45:11 -0500

ist full of dollars: You're not seriously asking that, right?

monkeyrotica

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:29:30 -0500

See, that's different, because to the Council, public transportation can do no wrong and guns want to kill your mommma and rape your livestock. I maintain that guns are superior in all respects to most transit options because you can use guns to obtain transportation in almost any circumstance. Try it some time: walk onto a bus or next to a car at a stoplight or even a small-engine plane and stick a gun in the driver's face and tell them where you want to go. Through the magic of superior firepower, you can get where you need to go in the fastest time possible. Why be bored out of your skull, trapped in a morning commute, when you can indulge in high-speed inter-vehicle shooting matches? Make getting a quart of milk and a box of tampons a kickass adventure, complete with cops in pursuit and a roadscape filled with dead pedestrians, bikers, and fellow motorists. Indulge your inner maniac by smoking a bunch of crack and driving through street festivals. Well, that's been done already, but you get the picture. Instead of begging for more funding for an outtdated transit system, we should be providing gun vouchers to low-income residents so that they can obtain transportation (and food, clothing, grillz, blunts, Rap Snacks, etc). Firearms ownership improves self-esteem, and teaches self-reliance as well as how to lead a moving target. These are essential skills to survive the coming econocataclysm, which will totally be fixed in a second Mccain administration.

ist full of dollars

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:54:38 -0500

Isn't this the part where Martin et al. start complaining that congress needs to stay out of local issues?

monkeyrotica

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:27:50 -0500

NOVA needs to effing secede and take its money with it. Let those Marlboro smoking banjo playing toothless inbreds in Richmond try and survive on what they're making off diminishing tobacco revenues. West Virginia seems to be doing alright, thanks to their feisty pleistecene-era senator.

sumergocognito

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:04:56 -0500

I think it is the bill that requires DC/MD/VA to pony up too. I've read (and can't remember where) that DC and MD have already identified dedicated funding for metro but VA is stalling. I'm not surprised there's a problem getting Richmond and downstate VA to care about metro for NOVA. How about an excise on chewing tobacco and whiskey?

perkinsms

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:03:52 -0500

"expected to pass easily in the Senate after unanimous bipartisan approval in the House" Really? Sen. Coburn's not going to use his "a legislature of one" technique to prevent the bill from getting to the floor? Because that's what's been holding it up until now. In the Senate, a single Senator can object to placing the bill on the calendar.

KrazyKat

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:58:53 -0500

I guess this explains why Metro was looking to move its location. Free money that won't go to all of these $11 billion necessary improvements.

Reid

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:55:01 -0500

I was wondering the same thing...

IMGoph

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:47:44 -0500

so is this the money that tom davis promised if dc, md, and va would pony up their own dedicated funding sources, or is it something else?