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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCrazy Republicans Can't Pave Our Roads
Its hard to govern effectively when youre crazy, and thats the most basic way of understanding why the Republican-led Congress is simply incapable of funding the federal highway system. Follow the link if you want a more granular understanding of the problem and how it might all shake out in the near term. What Im going to do here is give you a couple of excerpts. These are comments from Republican senators, but the translation for both of them is: Im trying to fund the roads but my colleagues are insane.
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What theyre saying is that no matter what they try to suggest, they cannot find the votes from their Republican caucus to pave a fucking road or bolster a goddamned crumbling bridge. Theyre assuring us that, despite this inability to overcome the lunacy that has taken over their party, there will be some money for our highways by the end of the month.
Yet, the best they can honestly offer us is an assurance that theyll try to bridge the gap over how long the doggone patch will be this time. Some want a long patch because they dont want to deal with this every two months for the rest of time, while others want a short patch because they think it will force the issue and result in some kind of long-term funding. Pretty much no one thinks they should risk putting the funding into some omnibus appropriations process because no can see any agreement on an omnibus package being in our future.
And the cause of this is pretty simple. The Republicans want roads, but they refuse to pay for them. They dont want to raise the gas tax and they dont want to repatriate offshore profits. They dont want to govern, basically.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2015/5/7/161659/6498
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What theyre saying is that no matter what they try to suggest, they cannot find the votes from their Republican caucus to pave a fucking road or bolster a goddamned crumbling bridge. Theyre assuring us that, despite this inability to overcome the lunacy that has taken over their party, there will be some money for our highways by the end of the month.
Yet, the best they can honestly offer us is an assurance that theyll try to bridge the gap over how long the doggone patch will be this time. Some want a long patch because they dont want to deal with this every two months for the rest of time, while others want a short patch because they think it will force the issue and result in some kind of long-term funding. Pretty much no one thinks they should risk putting the funding into some omnibus appropriations process because no can see any agreement on an omnibus package being in our future.
And the cause of this is pretty simple. The Republicans want roads, but they refuse to pay for them. They dont want to raise the gas tax and they dont want to repatriate offshore profits. They dont want to govern, basically.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2015/5/7/161659/6498
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Crazy Republicans Can't Pave Our Roads (Original Post)
phantom power
May 2015
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DJ13
(23,671 posts)1. They could....
...... they just need to be ground into a fine powder first.
Good one !
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(4,835 posts)4. It's the libertarian influence...
There was a time when republicans (even Hoover) were all about infrastructure, but Reagan's 'the government is the problem' attitude has spurred all this anti-government position and frankly they don't know enough about the importance of government public works to even take a position.
Tea party buffoonery.