Why does Jim Demint hate bycicles? (Blue Mass Group)

[Mass]

http://bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=38313C9499E926D9C4E3A3D8D01395D4?diaryId=14730

It's one thing to vote to strike a line item in the stimulus package. It's one thing to be against the stimulus altogether. It's one thing not to care about the environment, or biking, or anything good and wholesome in particular. But this is really a special level of ignorance/stupidity/malevolence from our favorite Senator, Jim DeMint:
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I'm assuming that DeMint imagines that "real people" only drive to work, and that "bicycle, walking, or wilderness trails" don't actually get anyone to work, nor do they provide work in the making of them. We're not paying for any of that fun and games!

Your modern GOP: Not so modern.

http://bikeportland.org/2009/02/06/senators-look-to-strip-bike-funding-from-stimulus-bill-blumenauer-responds/

[HereSince1628]

1. An attempt to stop a CCC-like agency for being born of stiumuls I suppose...

The R's have hated FDR for their entire lives, it makes their Clinton-hatred look like a petty grudge.

[PretzelWarrior]

2. Jim DeMint is top 5 in assholes up there in Congress along with both Okie senators

and a few more wingnuts still managing to hold down a job representing their whacky idealogies while Rome burns.

[HereSince1628]

3. No doubt, and acting on an old script doesn't require thinking

it just require an available idiotology.

[DBoon]

4. Hippies and anarchists ride bicycles

real Americans drive pickup trucks and SUVs

[GoCubsGo]

5. My Senator is batshit crazy...

Nothing new there...

I think what is really going on here is that a lot of these trails are now being maintained by volunteers. He wants to keep it that way. It's the old "Thousand Points of Light" shit. Let volunteers do everything so that we don't have to pay them.