Tea Baggers Who Feel They’re ‘Taxed Enough Already’ Gripe About Inadequate Service In…Public Transit
Tea Baggers Who Feel They’re ‘Taxed Enough Already’ Gripe About Inadequate Service In…Public Transit
Last weekend, tens of thousands of right-wing protesters invaded Washington, DC for the 912 March. Not only were they rallying against President Obama’s plans for health care reform, but more generally against “socialism,” government-run services, and too much taxation.
A large number of the tea party protesters relied on DC’s transit system to get around the city. The Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) reported that on Sept. 12, metrorail ridership was double compared to an average Saturday. The Washington metro, of course, is public transit — in other words, it’s run by big government. Nevertheless, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) has written a letter to WMATA complaining that the service wasn’t good enough for the tea baggers:
“These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,” Brady wrote. “These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation’s capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them.”
A spokesman for Brady says that “there weren’t enough cars and there weren’t enough trains.” Brady tweeted as much from the Saturday march. “METRO did not prepare for Tea Party March! More stories. People couldn’t get on, missed start of march. I will demand answers from Metro,” he wrote on Twitter.
In his letter, Brady also complained that overcrowding on the metro trains
“forced an 80-year-old woman and elderly veterans in wheelchairs to pay for cabs” — in other words, to rely on the non-government-run transportation system, which tea party protesters would presumably want to support.
A large part of the reason that the DC metro has had so many problems in recent years is that it doesn’t “have dedicated tax revenue.” It has often run into protests from people such Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who has said that we shouldn’t “steal opportunity from our children so that we can have a ride on the Metro.” The American Public Transportation Association says that “recession-imposed limits on government budgets and increased demand are doubtless among the reasons why ‘transit systems are strained all over the country.’”
Americans around the country are relying on metro more than ever. Last year, they took 10.7 billion trips, the highest level in 52 years. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials reports that “an annual investment of $46 billion is needed to keep up with an expected 2.4 percent annual growth in ridership,” but in 2006, “transit capital from all levels of government amounted to only $13.3 billion.”
As for Brady…John Cole points out that when a bill containing $150 million for emergency maintenance funding for the DC metro system came up this summer, Brady voted against it.
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Wait, I thought there were TWO MILLION teabaggers in DC on Saturday. If Metro was able to operate at all under such a strain, that should be considered an achivement, right?
September 17th, 2009 at 11:03 amConservatives just don’t get irony…
September 17th, 2009 at 11:03 amYes, the government should bend over backwards to help these people who want to complain about the government. After all, they didn’t vote for the current government. /sarc
Too funny, since for 8 years the government did nothing for these very people and now the government wants to actually help… everyone! Talk about biting the hand that feeds.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:03 amRep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) has written a letter to WMATA complaining that the service wasn’t good enough for the tea baggers
– - When Texas secedes, enjoy your early 20th century transportation methods without Federal funds.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:06 amYou mean God didn’t make the public transportation system?
September 17th, 2009 at 11:07 amLOL! And I bet they are first to complain the street lights are out, the Library had cut it’s hours, The Senior Center ran out of donuts…..
September 17th, 2009 at 11:07 amAll tea-baggers should het a copy of this to show them how truly ignorant they are. They have no idea what they are protesting (other than promoting hatred of Obama), and no understanding of most of the terms they use. Next time they should all be told to take private business transportation to get to all events.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:08 amTea Baggers Who Feel They’re ‘Taxed Enough Already’ Gripe About Inadequate Service In…Public Transit
– - Hitler got the trains to tun on time. So apparently Obama is NOT Hitler, eh teabags?
September 17th, 2009 at 11:09 amWhat to say?
First, I hope Metro was ’single tracking’ on Saturday. That adds at least 40 minutes to one’s average trip.
Second, oh DC taxicabs. The DC taxi system is the embodiment of the free market. There is no limit to the number of cabs that can roam DC streets. As a result, competition is fierce. And that leads cabbies to keep the A/C off, defer maintenance, use old cars etc. Too bad the teabaggers didn’t get to experience DC’s old “Zone Fare” system. Darned government made the cabbies get meters so the fares aren’t arbitrary.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:11 amBad@4, I guess they will have to get used to horse and buggy transportation, wont they? And if they secede, no more National Guard, or FDA to make sure their food is safe, FEMA either. So go ahead Texas! Secede! Watch how fast the dreaded ‘Illegals’ will go streaming over the border when they don’t get any Federal funding. That would be Poetic Justice or Karma.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:13 amHoly Jebus, them poor barstids is TRULY retarded.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
September 17th, 2009 at 11:15 amGet your government hands off my Medicare! And my Public Transit! And my Social Security! And my Highways!
Why isn’t FEMA helping to clean this mess up? Why don’t we have the National Guard patrolling our borders?
These people are hacks.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:15 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
As a former DC suburb resident who rode the Orange Line daily for 14 years its an ironic pleasure to defend Metro on this one. Usually several days before a big event like this Metro starts making announcements throughout the system informing “regulars” about the event. Messages usually mention increased number of trains on event day and that the operating hours are extended for both starting and ending times. Invariably 4 car trains are increased to 6 cars at specific times of the day to accomodate the crush. The problem on event day is not that there are insufficent numbers of cars but the out of town people who don’t have a freaking clue how to negotiate Metro. They stand around looking like a deer in the headlights not sure which way to go, what side of the track to be on, how to get a Metro ticket and a whole host of other maladies!
The biggest problem with Metro is the aging nature of the cars and the inability of Metro to acquire newer cars and more of them. Those purchases, of course, require money and as someone pointed out Metro has no dedicated source of tax revenue to affect needed improvements.
It is hilarious and ironic as hell that the anti-tax, anti-government nitwits were the main users of Metro that day. I wonder how many of them have that patented deer in the headlights look on their faces after realizing that the Metro they used is part of the “big government” they came to town to protest.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:19 am@12, IGNORANT hacks. Disgusting isn’t it? Americans don’t need education when they have entertainment! Why read the newspaper when Beck and Limpalls can tell you what’s going on? Or read a book when we have Reality TV? The dumbing down of America is taking it’s toll. We have a nation of dumb-asses. Sigh!
September 17th, 2009 at 11:21 amTwo summers ago I delayed my vacation with my family for job related reasons. They traveled to the Washington on Friday and I followed by air on Saturday to Baltimore. I had planned my trip well and found my way from BWI to the Greenbelt Metro station, bought a ticket to get me to L’Enfant where I found my family waiting for me. I was, in effect, a stranger in a strange land. What I had on my side was the planning I had done. Had the tea-baggers trip planning been done well, they wouldn’t have suffered so much at the hands of the organizers. I suppose that and attendant problem was that the planners, and most of the upper echelon tea-baggers, are so ego centric that they refuse to share much information with their own followers and that is what will destroy the movement.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:21 amwell guess this shows the power of stupid. no i should say the power of ignorants.
either way its just sad.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:21 amSomeone should remind Mr. Brady that when HR3288 came to the floor, and included 150 million in emergency funding for the Metro, he voted against it.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:22 am
@18, that blockquote was from a commenter elsewhere..
September 17th, 2009 at 11:24 amGO HERE and tell Brady what you think:
http://www.house.gov/brady/contact_page.html
If sending email you can use these zip codes (for his local offices): 77304 or 77630
September 17th, 2009 at 11:26 amMike Hunt: The problem on event day is not that there are insufficent numbers of cars but the out of town people who don’t have a freaking clue how to negotiate Metro. They stand around looking like a deer in the headlights not sure which way to go, what side of the track to be on, how to get a Metro ticket and a whole host of other maladies!
Stand on the right, walk on the left!
As someone who has worked in transit for 25 years, I find this particularly sweet. No question at all that these are the exact same people who whine constantly about a single dime being spent for public transit.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:30 amWMATA should have made available a special “Teabagger” farecard. One where the cost of a trip represents the true cost, as if the Metro was not government owned and operated. Probably would have made the old ladies’ taxi ride seem cheap.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:31 amI bet everyone one of these jackasses is a Faux News junkie. I find it interesting how they claim ALL news is biased accept their beloved Faux. It boggles my mind. I get news from EVERYWHERE. On-line, print, cable (Yeah, I’m guilty), C-span. And yet, these idiots accuse people like me of being uninformed! Simply amazing.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:31 amThe teabuggers should have relied on the two legs the Lord gave them. Or insisted that their corporate sponsors rent buses for them.
I have heard of “Earl Grey”, “oolong”, “English breakfast”, and many other teas. Only recently has it come to my attention that there is a “Hypocrisy” tea, better known as “Hypocritea” to its afficianados.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:32 amThe teabaggers should boycott the socialist public rail system. Instead, they can drive on the roads and highways.
Oh, wait a minute!
September 17th, 2009 at 11:36 amP.D. says these idiots accuse people like me of being uninformed! Simply amazing.
well me personly think they feel we are over informed and they have to defend they misinformation.
If they get there news from the hate wing fox, radio etc… then they are usally a day or two (maybe years) back of the real world.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:37 amThese are the same people who called for deregulation for years, gutted the budgets of the regulatory agencies when they took power, staffed the agencies with industry insiders and sympathizers and then blamed the CPSC when toys showed up from China with lead based paint and blamed the SEC when shyster financial advisors ran off with their clients’ money. Will they learn from experience? Nope.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:38 am***
government services for me,
but not for thee.
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the hypocrisy of the teabaggers is radiant.
:)
September 17th, 2009 at 11:41 am“Ironical” is not in the teabag lexicon
September 17th, 2009 at 11:42 amNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:42 amPilot@26, Just look at the Faux News coverage. Everything is ACORN! Dear Lord. Day after day, night after night. I have never seen anything like it. A couple of workers did something unethical (It happens all the time, in all businesses) and you would think it is Armageddon! Lou Dobbs, Faux News have had their sights on ACORN for years. Why? because it helps minorities and poor folks. Of course you didn’t hear about Orly Taitz, who lost her suit yesterday, or the rape victim who worked at Halliburton who got the green light to sue her former employer. That to me is news. MSM can shove the whole Kayne west and Serena William’s ‘Controversies’ and shove them.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:45 amdasm says:
All tea-baggers should het a copy of this to show them how truly ignorant they are. They have no idea what they are protesting (other than promoting hatred of Obama), and no understanding of most of the terms they use.
The reason that so many of us suspect them of racism in their anti-Obama rhetoric is through pure process of elimination. Nothing that they’re saying makes any sense. None of the actual policy positions, when examined in detail, is anything they’d be likely to oppose.
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shoeless says:
The teabaggers should boycott the socialist public rail system. Instead, they can drive on the roads and highways.
Oh, wait a minute!
Perhaps they could pray for a cross-planetary rapture system to get where they need to go.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:45 amTeabaggers complaining about the metro system – Too funny! I laugh and laugh at these teabaggin’ fools.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:45 amDon’t forget that the citizen taxes pay for the Metro.
The Tea Baggers were freeloading on the good citizens of DC.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:46 amSomebody might want to remind the Texas Teabagger who hates mass transit until his nutty constituents use it that if Capitalist Jeebus wanted him to ride the train he would have been born with steel wheels instead of feet.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:46 amWhere are all the free ponies, dammit!
Didn’t METRO know that rich conservative white activists were coming in from out of town? Dust off the good trains! Bring out the china! Have they no decency?!?
/sarc
September 17th, 2009 at 11:47 am24. PatriotLiberal Christian
But if they took the bus, they would be traveling on public roads !!!!!!!!!
September 17th, 2009 at 11:48 amThe arrogance of ignorance is truly getting out of hand. In DC to protest too much government and complaining about the inadequacies of public transportation.
Maybe someone should point out to them that the public highways they used to get there, the air traffic control system (if they flew), the water and waste management systems that supported them, the federal food inspections that guaranteed them safe food, the vast array of police, fire and paramedic personnel on hand and a government that allows all voices to be heard, all come at a price.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:49 amHas anyone come up with a figure for how much that demonstration cost DC? Apparently these people are also giant slobs and left a horrible mess behind that must have cost a pretty penny to clean up.
Hypocrite, thy name is Republican.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:49 amKeep in mind that these are the same Texans that have been dumping their sewage in southern flowing rivers for generations,
September 17th, 2009 at 11:50 amand then complain about the water quality in Mexico.
Why didn’t they just ride their
bootstraps?
September 17th, 2009 at 11:51 amWhy didn’t the Corporate Sponsers bus them in? You would think with all of Big Businesses gizzillions, they would be able to bus in between 50,000 to 70,000 ‘Grass Roots’ protesters?
September 17th, 2009 at 11:53 ambelaccifer lacca says:
Where are all the free ponies, dammit!
They tried rolling out the red carpet – but the teabaggers started having fits about the symbolism.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:53 amokie dokie says:
Keep in mind that these are the same Texans that have been dumping their sewage in southern flowing rivers for generations,
and then complain about the water quality in Mexico.
Although you do make a good point, I just wanted to say that as far as I can tell, there are no major rivers that cross from Texas into Mexico; we do share a common river at the border.
Our (Mexico’s) water quality problems are, sad to say, entirely our own blame.
Both our countries are polluting the Gulf of Mexico, so we can get shared blame for that.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:57 amthe wrong side white wing party and friends, have this problem and it shows.
they let there have constipated mines and direra of the lips.
also mention on another thread
they let there humming bird mines overload there alligator a$$`s.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:57 amIf they couldn’t afford to pay for private cabs they should have kept their butts at home. That’s what they say about poor women who need assistance with babies isn’t it? They shouldn’t have gotten in that predicament.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:00 pmThose Conservatives are pretty good party planners themselves, it turns out…
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2009/09/17/value_voters/
September 17th, 2009 at 12:01 pmThey want bigger and more socialism….
….which they are against…
….until it becomes an inconvenience to them…
….then they are for it…
…which they are against…
Hey I’m going in circles here, go figure.
Fcuk the teabaggers bigots
September 17th, 2009 at 12:02 pmThis stuff just writes itself.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pmIrony is lost on them.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:18 pmThese are the kind of stories the MSM should be showing about these protests. We need a good laugh now and then, but these teabaggers are a laugh a minute. They don’t get it.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pmbelaccifer lacca says:
Didn’t METRO know that rich conservative white activists were coming in from out of town? Dust off the good trains! Bring out the china! Have they no decency?!?
I’m sure these people thought that DC should have rented a fleet of limos to line up to take them to their protest. But then they would have objected if the government paid for the limos.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pmpags2 says:
These are the kind of stories the MSM should be showing about these protests. We need a good laugh now and then, but these teabaggers are a laugh a minute. They don’t get it.
As long as 85% of our MSM is owned and controlled by conservatives, that is not going to happen. This is the reason why the right has been able to hijack the whole health care discussion.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:20 pmIf these people were unhappy with Washington Metro service, they should count their lucky stars that the protest wasn’t taking place here in New York City where I live! I’ve used the DC subway system to get around every time I’ve been to DC, and I’ve always thought that the quality of their service outstrips that of the New York MTA — even though I know that this is at least partially due to the fact that our system is considerably older than theirs and quite possibly still relies to at least some extent on outdated (or perhaps even antiquated) technology.
Seriously, though…where do these people think the money would come from for service improvements? You’d think the word public in the phrase “public transportation” should have given them a clue — but then again, “think” is clearly the operative word there since thinking is one thing which these geniuses clearly weren’t doing when they chose to complain. That’s because the money for service improvements on public transportation would have to come from — that’s right — the government, which means that it would quite likely have to come from taxes. While it can’t be disputed that cuts in government spending might help pay for improvements without raising taxes, there’s also no way to guarantee with absolute certainty that whatever putative cuts the government might choose to make wouldn’t have a negative impact in some other aspect of their lives. In my opinion, Brady and the people on whose behalf he’s complaining are not only determined to use whatever excuse they can to criticize the government — they want to have their cake and eat it too. They think they ought to be entitled to the advantages of certain services such as public transportation, but get angry when expected or required to contribute to the upkeep of said services. Something for nothing is a nice idea, but I think we all know (or at least should) that this not how the world works — the money to pay for these services has to come from somewhere, because it doesn’t grow on trees and it’s not going to fall from the sky. If we as a nation decide that a service like public transportation or health care is so vitally important and necessary that it should be provided for everyone, then it’s a virtual certainty that everyone will probably need to make compromises somewhere in order to facilitate that — and one of the possible compromises may be higher taxes.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:27 pmIMHO, the DC metro system is among the best I’ve seen.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:31 pmWingnuts always want more and more while refusing to pay for it. They’re leeches on society.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:31 pmMarie says:
IMHO, the DC metro system is among the best I’ve seen.
Sure Marie… but where were the free pony rides?!? Didn’t they know that these were important out of town CONSERVATIVES?
September 17th, 2009 at 12:33 pmI think they were just mad because they couldn’t figure out which side of the platform to be on and kept having to double back.
They ARE morons, after all.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:36 pmI agree. When we went there for vacation we stayed over in Virginia because it was much cheaper, and the DC Metro was so nice that we didn’t mind commuting into DC everyday.
This is just like Republican trailer park redneck white trash complaining about big government spending on their way to cash their welfare checks.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:40 pmCongressman Brady… that loud banging noise you just heard was my irony meter exploding thanks to you and your group of roving nutcases.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pmBUT…look at that Saturday a year ago …2008
Saturday September 12, 2009 – Rail ridership: 437,624 Bus ridership: 236,347 (Detailed Service Information
Saturday September 13, 2008 – Rail ridership: 362,773 Bus ridership: 236,347 (Detailed Service Information)
Inauguration Tuesday January 20, 2009 – Rail ridership: 1,120,000 Bus ridership: 423,000 (Detailed Service Information)
September 17th, 2009 at 12:49 pmHereinDC says, excellent perspective.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:55 pmY’all are missing the point: the t-baggers are being completely ironic and using their use of government services while harranging that same government for those services as a perfectly insidious plan to explode the brains of ALL creatures who possess one –which of course excludes them. Victory will be theirs!
September 17th, 2009 at 12:58 pm.
Shorter Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX):
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September 17th, 2009 at 12:58 pmJust as racists are often too oblivious to see their own racism, hypocrites are too oblivioous to see their own hypocrisy.
The greatest danger facing America in the 21st century is not terrorism or nuclear proliferation, it’s the stupidity of a large percentage of its population. Mr. Brady is but one example of that stupidity.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pmHereinDC says:
BUT…look at that Saturday a year ago …2008
Bus ridership was exactly the same a year apart? That looks like a boo-boo to me. At any rate, we know for a fact that none of the out of town teabaggers was on a bus, especially in DC.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:05 pmThe stupid teabaggers apparently didn’t know (or care) that there was a Black Family Reunion planned for last weekend at the Mall as well.
They apparently thought that the government they were there to protest against was supposed to issue them some kind of public transport pass that allowed them to cut to the front of the line or something.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:07 pmAugust 29, 2009 – Rail ridership: 303,997 Saturday
August 22, 2009 – Rail ridership: 293,200 Saturday
August 15, 2009 – Rail ridership: 337,070 SAturday
August 08, 2009 – Rail ridership: 354,662 SAturday
August 01, 2009 – Rail ridership: 364,241 Sturday
September 12, 2009 -Rail ridership: 437,624 Saturday
( When you average the 5 previous Saturdays ( I left out Labor Day Weekend) ..the average is 330,634
* 293,200 – Government is on vacation…DC is a ghost-town *
http://www.wmata.com/rail/disruption_reports/viewReportArchive.cfm?Archive_Date=82009
September 17th, 2009 at 1:08 pmThere is a link to another article in this article
“…on Sept. 12, metrorail ridership was double”
here’s what was in the link:
“Crowd estimates for last Saturday’s “9/12″ protests in Washington, D.C. ranged from the tens of thousands to the low millions. But one statistic is a little more solid: riders of the capital’s Metro rail system doubled, from 202,528 on an average Saturday to 437,624 the day of the protest.”
Using a 52 Saturday average…..as compared to averaging only the weeks around that specific Saturday would be more honest…..I think.
I think this stating the Metro couldn’t handle the “crowds” is a BIG exaggeration on part of the GOP.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pmAt least they were nice enough to include them in their count of teabaggers in attendance.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pmAs for Brady…John Cole points out that when a bill containing $150 million for emergency maintenance funding for the DC metro system came up this summer, Brady voted against it.
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Wow. And that’s AFTER a major Metro crash that killed seven people, and which may have been the result of poor maintenance.
Rep. Brady, you’re a fuck-face. A complete fuck-face.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:26 pmSOCILISM, nab dang it! Dint you read the signs in the march? Has nothing to do with “socialism”. Or AMESTY, whatever that is.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:39 pmThey should have had to walk.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:42 pm#13,
i lived in Boston and NY for years and now live in L.A. We can only close our eyes and dream that some day, after we’re long dead and buried, L.A. will have a transit system one half as good as the one in NY.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pmSome days the contrariness is just too damned much. It isn’t simply laughable, it’s an indication of the loonies having siezed control of the bin. I concur with all the assesssments that “you can’t make this stuff up.” Holy Hamburger…
Really, the bozos should not have used any public facility in getting to DC. They’d still be out there trekking along, with Glenn Beck’s hand cart (Mormon arcana – the handcart migration to Desseret, aka Utah). In fact, why didn’t Beck promote that? What is he, a jack (arse) Mormon?
September 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pmI hear bus number 11 is always available.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm@ 75. Let’s face facts. The loonies could NOT have arrived in Washington without some facilitation from the dreaded government. They drove over state and federal highways, or were bussed over same. Or they came in by train, probably Amtrack, which is a public corporation, over publicly regulated rail. Or they flew in, with government provided air traffic control services, as well as government provided infrastructure (the DoT and FAA don’t just provide air traffic control, they subsidize airport runway and infrastucture construction and maintenance). Need I go on? (Only to lure a troll or three, I suppose).
Very few of these people made it without ‘gummint’ help, not to this event nor in their daily life, but they never fracking notice. It’s just whine whine fracking whine…
September 17th, 2009 at 1:54 pmHereinDC says:
I think this stating the Metro couldn’t handle the “crowds” is a BIG exaggeration on part of the GOP.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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Yeah. Especially when the average weekday crowd is 750,000 or more.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:57 pmVirtual Pebble says:
Very few of these people made it without ‘gummint’ help, not to this event nor in their daily life, but they never fracking notice. It’s just whine whine fracking whine…
September 17th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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Not to mention evil socialist labor laws that gave them all the Saturday off in the first place.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:00 pm@ 44. Luis Chapulin M says: okie dokie says: Keep in mind that these are the same Texans that have been dumping their sewage in southern flowing rivers for generations, and then complain about the water quality in Mexico.
Although you do make a good point, I just wanted to say that as far as I can tell, there are no major rivers that cross from Texas into Mexico; we do share a common river at the border. Our (Mexico’s) water quality problems are, sad to say, entirely our own blame. Both our countries are polluting the Gulf of Mexico, so we can get shared blame for that.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Luis, the reason Tejanos say that they come up here, to NM and Southern CO, to look at “their” water, isn’t really just to take a looky loo. It’s also so they can have a taste of what it’s really like before they mix in all their sludge downstream of El Paso.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:05 pmAlthough many of us would love to export him across the Red River, Sen. Tom Coburn is sadly (R-OK).
September 17th, 2009 at 2:05 pmNo way. We’re stuck with Cornyn. You gotta keep Coburn.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:16 pmmdeatherage! Don’t you friggin’ dare. What the hell would we want with three ignurt POS Senators in the bonehead State? It is state law in Texas to only export idiots, sort of a supply and demand thing. We’ve got the supply.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:17 pmPoor Teabaggers! I’d bet the Metro train cars didn’t even have racks to hold their (anti-government) signs. How uncomfortable for them.
/snark off
September 17th, 2009 at 2:22 pmIt sounds like the Teabaggers got what they paid for and even more than that which they advocate. I’m waiting for someone to gripe that WMATA didn’t make the same kind of accomodations for 9/12 that were made for the inauguration.
I don’t remember hearing this kind of petty whining in September 2005 when at least 100,000 showed up to march for Bush’s impeachment. (Thousands of other would-be attendees were left stranded in the Northeast due to Amtrak service outage that morning. Hmmm…)
September 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pm***
the taking of hypocrisy 1 2 3
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September 17th, 2009 at 2:39 pmI have searched deep and found the answer. Metro didn’t have a bar and buffet car for the unhinged unwashed.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:55 pmI love the line about the monorail ride breaking down. These people from Texas or elsewhere seem to think that they shouldn’t be slightly inconvenienced by the reality of public transit, i.e. waiting a few minutes for an overcrowded train. No, that never happens. It must have been a conspiracy! I wonder how many of them were expecting Red Caps. Oh, BOY!
September 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pmLMAO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
there should be a new word dedicated to this level of hypocrisy.
September 17th, 2009 at 3:13 pmI have to say, as a daily DC commuter, I frequently have my own grumbles with Metro. The trains during rush hour are regularly overcrowded, delayed, contain too few cars, and at time seem to be driven by sadists who love nothing more than jerking their passengers around until they vomit. Many a morning and many an evening have I left the Metro system spitting and cursing after a frustrating ride.
It’s quite easy to forget that when the system does work, it works damn well. This article and comments are a good reminder of how fortunate I am to live near a city that has such a good public transportation system, and helps me appreciate how much Metro does with the limited resources it has.
Thank you!
September 17th, 2009 at 3:29 pmi vacationed in D.C. this summer and found that the metro system there was clean, easy to use and reliable. a real credit to the city.
to those teabagging morons complaining about it, perhaps they should have walked their fatasses to their “protest” lord knows those flabby fools could stand to shed a few pounds.
September 17th, 2009 at 3:31 pmTeabaggers who need to bag tea are the luckiest teabaggers in the world… In other words, these right-wing clowns are just plain nutty…
September 17th, 2009 at 4:10 pmtaxed to death
September 17th, 2009 at 4:35 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Tim43 says:
I can see why they are mad. Why aren’t you?
A) because there doesn’t seem to have been much of an issue.
B) because they were protesting taxes and complaining about the lack of services that those taxes provide.
September 17th, 2009 at 4:59 pmTim, don’t you see it’s a conspiracy. The Liberals actually control Fox News. They are making sure it is easy to pick out the dumbasses in the country. Anyone listening to the blowhards at Fox turn up as teabaggers at these events where they are convinced they have a legitimate protest. Everyone who attends these events are logged into a special database. Soon there will be a special vote conducted and all these protesters will be voted out of the country.
Then, the military groups, also controlled by liberals, that have had their hand in the government pockets for years will take over the country. All the troops from Iran and Afghanistan will be brought back to build hundreds of mosques and we will all face east at the same time.
Yeah, I can see why they are mad too!!!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Oh, and by the way, we’re growing….hee-hee-hee
September 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pmTeaParty76 says:
Ahh, so you’re not against public services, just against the taxes that pay for them.
That makes perfect sense!
Where’s my free pony?
September 17th, 2009 at 5:06 pmTeaParty76 says:
Oh, and by the way, we’re growing….hee-hee-hee
And you’re growing at the thought of sticking yer balls in a liberals mouth? hee- hee- hee indeed!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:13 pmbelaccifer lacca says:
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TeaParty76 says:
Ahh, so you’re not against public services, just against the taxes that pay for them.
That makes perfect sense!
Where’s my free pony?
I’ll speak slowly…nooooo, we’re not Libertarians, we’re not against paying taxes. Too fast belaccifer?
September 17th, 2009 at 5:14 pmI’ll speak slowly…nooooo, we’re not Libertarians, we’re not against paying taxes. Too fast belaccifer?
No, that’s great!
What are ‘extra taxes?’
Thanks!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:15 pmOh, let’s see, what’s “extra taxes”? we’re at 54% of income now…hmmm, extra taxes….oh, I don’t know, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% ???
September 17th, 2009 at 5:19 pmWhat do you think belaccifer?
No reply huh? Ok, I’m outa here. Idiocy might be contagious…
September 17th, 2009 at 5:24 pmTeaParty76 says:
Oh, let’s see, what’s “extra taxes”? we’re at 54% of income now…hmmm, extra taxes….oh, I don’t know, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% ???
What do you think belaccifer?
Boy! 54% of income… that’s an awful big number… I wonder where you got it.
‘Cause I come up with this.
Average Tax Rate of 12.68%
Top 1% paid 22.45%… I wonder why those numbers are so different?
And that’s from the TAX FOUNDATION’s numbers… are they secretly liberal?
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/250.html
September 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pmTeaParty76 says:
No reply huh? Ok, I’m outa here. Idiocy might be contagious…
Boy- you gave me all of five minutes? You must be a busy, busy teabagger!
See ya later!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:26 pmIdiocy might be contagious…
Psst… don’t look now but you seem to be infected already! But thanks for choosing to limit the possible transmission by removing yourself!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:29 pmHaaa-haaa-haaa, you’re too much belaccifer!
See, I did give you more than 5 minutes…and all you could give me was one thing, the federal tax rate…that’s too funny right there. So how do you, and only you, get by with just paying federal tax?
state and local taxes, property taxes, duh!, duh!, duh!
Seriously, you might be contagious, I’ve given you too much of my time. Bye, have a happy moronic life…
September 17th, 2009 at 5:32 pmTim43 says:
The government would rather give our money to corrupt groups like ACORN who would help build brothels for underaged prostitutes.
September 17th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
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Do you have some proof that ACORN, as an organization, wants to help build brothels for underaged prostitutes?
And I don’t mean the Borat wanna-be videos that will hopefully get the fake pimp and his whore locked up for five years. I mean actual proof.
I didn’t think so.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pmTeaParty76 says:
state and local taxes, property taxes, duh!, duh!, duh!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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If you don’t want to pay property tax, stop owning property. Quit expecting the government to give you a handout, you socialist!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:36 pmstate and local taxes, property taxes, duh!, duh!, duh!
You guys went to D.C. to protest state, local taxes and property taxes?
You non-Libertarians believe that the Federal Government can alleviate you state and local taxes that somehow account for a whopping 40% of all people’s taxes?!?
September 17th, 2009 at 5:45 pmI teabagged Joe Wilson!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:55 pmYou’re the livin’ proof honey!!!
Hey, do you think Sarah should pick Bachmann or Sanford for VP?
September 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pmPsst. Teaparty?
You never told me where you got that 54% number. I’d like to learn…
September 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pmThis is a good lesson for the teabaggers who don’t need no stinking government intervention into anything. Serves them right.
These are the same idiots that objected to the amount of $ the president wanted in the stimulus package to spend on public transportation and everything else.
SD&STFU, Brady. You voted against funding the metro and against the stimulus funding for public transportation and everything the president wanted in the bill.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:01 pmTim43 says:
“help build brothels for underaged prostitutes.”
timmeh, if it weren’t for underaged prostitutes, you’d never get laid.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:37 pmTea baggers are just hateful inbred racists who are always hating on decent people. Now they are hating on trains too. Wow. Tea baggers should be lined up and shot with a can of Raid. Get their little cockroach children too. They are too ignorant to deserve another breath. Those ignorant fascists lost and we can remake this country into what it is supposed to be. Their ideology is dead. They think the Constitution is sooo important. They don’t understand squat. The Cosntitution is there to serve us. We can change it as we need to. Government can be a powerful force of good. Idiots! They can’t even spell Constitution. I bet most of those terrible tea baggers are a bunch of Southern KKKers and former closet skinheads. They are scum and should be kicked out of this country. Not that any sane or decent country would take them. But imagine a country with no right wingnuts. They hate and fear government because they were in control of it and it was evil under their rule. Get the train running . . . next stop, the middle of the ocean. That’d be a great place to put them.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:39 pmPaladinofPeace says:
Boy, that’s a sad ass attempt to smear progressives you’ve got going there PoP… you should stick to playing D&D ’cause you suck at being a pretend Progressive!
September 17th, 2009 at 6:47 pmTeaParty76 says:
To assume that all “tea-baggers” (open wide again) are Libertarians, ie:, (just for you liberals) against all public services, is completely exposing your idiocy.
I’ve never heard a wingnut willing to admit there’s a public service they support. And I never will. So actually, it’s exposing yours.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:47 pmMetro was never designed to accomodate that many walker-wielding Medicare recipients protesting single-payer healthcare.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/march-of-the-disgruntled-in-dc/
September 17th, 2009 at 6:53 pmTimmeh You BRAINWASHED MORON. Is it possible you are getting even stupider? Do you even realize how stupid you are? You are so brainwashed you are used by rightwing screechmonkeys. They just pull your strings and you regurgiate what they program you to think. You are just pathetic. Pavlovs dogs were free spirits compared to you
September 17th, 2009 at 10:38 pmTeaParty76 says:
Ha the irony of someone as monumentally stupid as you calling us stupid. You are the quintessential moron. You are so stupid it hurts my eyes to read the ignorance in your posts. By the way. No you arent growing except that you are growing stupider. Just shove it up your tarhole moron. You make dustmites seem intelligent
September 17th, 2009 at 10:40 pmPaladinofPeace says:
It is always so precious when people as stupid as you try to be clever. You never hit anything but pathetic. You are a brainwashed punkass troll without a shred of decency. I love to laugh at morons as stupid as you.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:42 pmOf course, one matter that has not been discussed is the old issue of liason. Did FreedomWorks or any of the other organizers bother to contact Metro to tell them they had a lot of people coming into town and that they might expect increased ridership?
I would expect that Metro has a normal operating job order for weekend operations and if they aren’t contacted in advance by at least a few days, they don’t schedule extra train sets. And they don’t do their planning, their logistics from muttering in WaPo and WaInd or the media; that’s just hearsay, rumor and BS.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the organizers didn’t even approach Metro and that they waited until the last minute to contact the DC and Capitol police forces, etc. Parade permits, anyone?
September 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pmTeaParty76 says:
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So how do you, and only you, get by with just paying federal tax?
state and local taxes, property taxes, duh!, duh!, duh!
How is it you don’t see the problem here with your own statement? STATE taxes. Seems to me that you’re barking at the wrong tree.
BTW – Federal is about 15% of your income. And it’s the FEDERAL government you’re whining about. If you really want to lower your taxes, I suggest you start taking it up with your STATE and LOCAL governments instead. Your 54-15 equals 39% of your income going there. Perhaps you should spend more time whining about what THEY are doing with your money.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:43 amAs we rolled down the socialized highway we stopped at a socialized rest station for a drink of socialized water. Our socialist destination was a socialized park called the Grand Socialized Canyon. On our way we saw many socialized sites, and often stopped to socialize.
Before our trip Daddy had stopped at the socialized office to renew his socialized drivers license, the socialized Law Enforcement enforces a socialized law requiring all of its socialized citizens to meet a socialized standard or they may end up in a socialized jail and a socialized court in front of a socialized Judge on their way to a socialized prison.
I had taken some time off my socialized school but still had some socialized homework for Social Studies so I rode the socialized bus to the socialized library to check out some socialized books so I could study Socialism while on the socialized road.
Daddy is a social worker who earns a socialized salary trying to help less socially fortunate people get social services and socialized housing. When I grow up I want to be a socialized Fireman.
Daddy says I shouldn’t limit my socialized options, that I can be whatever socialized thing I choose, some day if I work really hard I could even be the socialized President of the United Socialized States. That’s nice of him to say but my socialized grades aren’t so good so I’ll probably just wind up in a socialized College.
That wouldn’t be so bad though, I just hope I don’t end up in the socialized Military fighting a socialized war some socialized politicians say is socially important.
The End
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September 18th, 2009 at 6:31 amWhy are the tea baggers complaining about public transportation ? They do no want their taxes working for anyone or anything- they should take a cab or walk.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:18 pmThere is a lot of irony. Women rail against progressive change that in pervious eras brought them suffrage, or even wage-earning men.
Texas has a large percentage of government or military employees but a mob wants to secede.
I have had a huge EIC recipient complain about free money giveouts from the government.
VA and Medicare recipients rally against gov’t health insurance, not care.
They hate unions but want pensions and overtime.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 amNext time, they should try to run the protest using no public money saç ekimi.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:50 am