The economy's going so well that, in Mississippi, they're tearing up

[zbdent]

a rail line which was just repaired to give more money to Trent Lott's area . . .

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/nation/14267117.htm

The Mississippi Senate delegation is using a mammoth bill funding hurricane relief and the war in Iraq to have taxpayers foot the $700 million bill for closing a just-rebuilt rail line along Mississippi's Gulf Coast. CSX Transportation and its insurers just spent about $300 million repairing the hurricane damaged-track. Now, GOP Sens. Thad Cochran and Trent Lott want to tear it up again and use the right of way to build a new highway along the congested coastline.

[Glorfindel]

1. Ah, good ol' Mississippi...

our noble governor, Haley Barbour, who will do literally ANYTHING to protect the interests of Big Tobacco, and our wise state legislature, which wasted an entire legislative session wrangling about how MUCH MORE to restrict abortion. They finally abandoned the effort for this year's session because they couldn't agree about pregnancies due to rape and/or incest... What's a few dollars for tearing up a railroad and building another unnecessary highway when big issues like these are around?

[bemildred]

2. It ain't just Mississippi, if that helps any. nt

[zbdent]

3. What, are they building another bridge in Alaska, too?

Oh, wait, they canceled the bridge . . . but not the millions of dollars to build it . . .