In the lackluster Republican response to Obama's speech earlier this week, Bobby Jindal mocked the inclusion of rail spending by citing the GOP's favorite imaginary "magnetic levitation" train line from Disneyland to Sin City:
While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a magnetic levitation line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called volcano monitoring.
Of course, the bill doesn't actually include a train line between Vegas and Disneyland, but Republicans have never let the facts get in the way of their arguments before. Why start now?
On Tuesday of this week, it was entirely ridiculous, but by Friday, Bobby Jindal's very own Department of Transportation applied to get a piece of that $8 billion of wasteful rail spending.
You can't make this stuff up, people.
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