17 Replies to ““Overwhelming majority of Americans in both parties tell GOP to heed the ‘tea party'””

1. happyfeet says:

   January 31, 2011 at 8:32 am

   last I heard Team R has enthusiastically jumped on the high speed rail train

   lots of delicious spending you know

2. happyfeet says:

   January 31, 2011 at 8:33 am

   here’s the article I read

3. JHoward says:

   January 31, 2011 at 8:38 am

   This is good news. Maybe the left, at least during this cycle, is realizing remembering that government is a negative force, impossibly dim and intellectually lazy as they may be. Maybe.

4. alppuccino says:

   January 31, 2011 at 8:41 am

   Never heard of those guys happy. Probably never will either.

5. Jeff G. says:

   January 31, 2011 at 8:55 am

   last I heard Team R has enthusiastically jumped on the high speed rail train

   lots of delicious spending you know

   Heard that this morning. And I all thought was, please, shut up.

   Fortunately, they don’t speak for most Americans — or the majority of Republicans, I suspect.

6. Pablo says:

   January 31, 2011 at 9:34 am

   What’s nice is that when anyone who happens to carry a R after their name speaks, it suddenly becomes a Team R production.

7. happyfeet says:

   January 31, 2011 at 9:35 am

   it’s so unfair

8. Pablo says:

   January 31, 2011 at 9:37 am

   “It’s a place we have to start, we have to accomplish it, because then I believe all of America, in the various corridors around the country, will want high-speed rail if they see success here.”

   So, there’s already Acela. When Amtrack can stand on it’s own, let us know.

9. Squid says:

   January 31, 2011 at 9:43 am

   I’ll never understand the arousal that people get from trains. They’re just like buses, except for costing more, and running less often, and never really going anywhere near your destination.

10. B. Moe says:

    January 31, 2011 at 9:44 am

    Buses don’t have bartenders.

11. JHoward says:

    January 31, 2011 at 9:49 am

    Although they do smell like urine.

12. cranky-d says:

    January 31, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Don’t they realize that after they take all our money to build the trains, no one will be able to afford to use them? Then, since ridership is low, they will subsidize the cost of the ticket, which will take even more money from all our pockets.

    It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out how this will end up.

13. Squid says:

    January 31, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    Blood on the tracks?

14. sdferr says:

    January 31, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    Mike Barone’s piece today is kinda cheery in that numbers looking pretty good sort of way.

15. Bob Reed says:

    January 31, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    What I found interesting about Gallup’s poll results was that 44% of self-identified Democrats essentially stated that the GOP should disregard the wishes of the Tea-Party voters, who largely fueled their November victories and represent a large portion of their constituencies.

    I wonder if this belief is restricted to the GOP/Tea-Party dynamic, or is it their more generalized belief?

    That is, by-and-large does a near majority of Democrats not believe that their elected officials are there to represent their wishes; but that they truly are their “betters” who necessarily enjoy a free hand to impose their will, what they think is “good for us”, onto the masses.

    I wish Gallup had asked this question in a more abstract sense to get at the root of this stated belief…

16. Mueller says:

    January 31, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    Does any country’s high speed rail make a profit?

    I’m too lazy to Google it.

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