GOP pays tribute to Pat Robertson

[davidinalameda]

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=90202&ran=98102

Transportation in Hampton Roads is a festival of confusion and delays. There’s far too little money in the pipeline and there won’t be much anytime soon.

Unless, apparently, you’re the well-wired face of the religious right named Pat Robertson, a man to whom the Republican Party is much beholden. Then, you get not one, but two exits serving your empire near the Chesapeake/Virginia Beach line.

Just as well, since there are apparently two sets of rules in Washington: the set by which everyone operates, and the set by which the GOP rewards its friends.

[cosmicdot]

1. kick

"Thanks to the work of U.S. Sen. George Allen, as well as U.S. Reps. Thelma Drake and J. Randy Forbes, the new $286 billion transportation bill includes a particularly curious $10.8 million for an I-64 exit leading to City Line Road, which doesn’t exist."

"The behavior of the Robertson Trinity isn’t. Since 2002, they have received $16,000 in offerings from the televangelist. That investment — arguably one for the record books — secures an interchange for a development-to-come, while the traffic problems in the here-and-now go begging for pennies from Washington. If you’re Pat Robertson, you have earned the right to jump to the head of the line."