I’m not the biggest fan of Yglesias, but he makes a cogent point here.

Matthew Yglesias:
K-Lo proclaimed a “Dubya-Love Moment” over this answer to a question about why he doesn’t support a federal energy conservation program at yesterday’s press conference:
“The American people are smart enough to figure it out. They know the price of gas. They’re already driving less and seeking smaller cars. I don’t need to tell [...]

You have to be freakin’ kidding me.

Thanks to Will at The Reactionary Epicurean for alerting me to this doozy of a boondoggle. The Amtrak Line stopped running because of a lack of sufficient ridership, so, clearly, the best policy is to spend millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, on a magnetic levitation train between a ghastly, artificial representation of America, long-lost to [...]