October 17, 2011
— Ace Victor Davis Hanson does a victory lap (for all of us) on the 2008 case against Obama, proven disastrously true.
The skeptics of 2008 proved prescient; those who demonized them should be embarrassed. And we should remember that candidates, of both parties, will govern mostly as they campaign. Slips are not indiscretions, but often will prove in hindsight windows of the soul.
A reader also sends in this op-ed, from April 2009:
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power....
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars.
This op-ed was published in... Pravda.
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Posted by: Walter Duranty at October 17, 2011 10:02 AM (QKKT0)
And as Obama was sworn in I said, "We're at a point in our nation's history when our federal government is controlled by a college faculty."
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 17, 2011 10:03 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 17, 2011 10:04 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: sifty at October 17, 2011 10:05 AM (4CSeG)
Posted by: Romney 2012!!! at October 17, 2011 10:06 AM (D5hxK)
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 17, 2011 10:06 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: nevergiveup at October 17, 2011 10:07 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 17, 2011 10:09 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: HeartlessBlackOrchid at October 17, 2011 10:10 AM (SB0V2)
This is one of the reasons I like being a conservative; Smart guys like VDH are on my side.
Posted by: OregonMuse at October 17, 2011 10:10 AM (YWSZ7)
And as Obama was sworn in I said, "We're at a point in our nation's history when our federal government is controlled by a college faculty."
Posted by: Soothsayer
By the Faculty? I wish.
More like being run by some Keffiyeh draped TA working on the fifth year of her two year master's program.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 17, 2011 10:11 AM (/qkBU)
And as far as I'm concerned, VDH may be the new voice for what I believe in, especially since Buckley's gone.
Posted by: tubal at October 17, 2011 10:12 AM (BoE3Z)
Posted by: OregonMuse at October 17, 2011 10:12 AM (YWSZ7)
Posted by: Vic at October 17, 2011 10:14 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 17, 2011 10:15 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Soona - Tearorrist at October 17, 2011 10:16 AM (5JUlA)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 17, 2011 10:16 AM (vzFJV)
Check this out. Publish a "rich list" to shame them into "giving back"
Why not just cut to the chase and make them wear yellow stars or whatever?
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:16 AM (/bVuS)
Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at October 17, 2011 10:16 AM (KlQqQ)
There was a link to a "hottest of OWS" slideshow last week, with one looker in the bunch. And there was video of a blonde Sacagawea a while back.
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 17, 2011 10:17 AM (eHr/6)
Is Mitt Romney a human being?
I mean, an actual human being?
Because I just saw a picture of him and he looks like an avatar projected by an alien civilization that is trying to mimic what an actual human being looks like.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2011 10:17 AM (AF1jB)
You might be a Socialist if... you think someone owes you money for a road that was built 50 years ago.
Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 17, 2011 10:18 AM (136wp)
I can't believe he is president.
I can't tell you how often that thought has haunted me in the past thirty-three months.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 17, 2011 10:18 AM (sqkOB)
"I think we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and that the framers had that same blind spot. [Â…The Constitution] reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day." -- SCOAMF in 2004.
But don't pay attention to that. Worry about who is on "Dancing With The Stars" or NFL or NASCAR or whatever..
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:18 AM (/bVuS)
Posted by: cherry π at October 17, 2011 10:19 AM (OhYCU)
I was shocked on election night.
More shocking was the raucous turn out by the We Are the World crowd as they kicked up their feet and did the best impression of a third world mob I've ever seen.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2011 10:21 AM (AF1jB)
I can't believe how much crap he gets away with in regard to the expansion of Executive power.
Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 17, 2011 10:22 AM (136wp)
I was very surprised when Clinton won in '96. I really thought the American people, given a second chance, would reject that horse's ass Clinton and his annoying wife.
But a plurality of voters pushed Clinton across the finish for a second term because the economy was too good to buy the weaksauce Bob Dole was selling.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 17, 2011 10:23 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: that guy who can't believe it's not butter at October 17, 2011 10:23 AM (eHr/6)
But don't pay attention to that. Worry about who is on "Dancing With The Stars" or NFL or NASCAR or whatever..
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 02:18 PM (/bVuS)
IRL!!!!!!
(*too early?*)
Posted by: Zombie Dan Wheldon at October 17, 2011 10:24 AM (UK9cE)
I can't believe how much crap he gets away with in regard to the expansion of Executive power.
I can. It's because he's black.
America died because people were afraid of being called a name.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2011 10:24 AM (AF1jB)
31, I've been accused on another forum of having Clinton Derangement Syndrome but his re-election in 1996 was when I realized just how dire out situation was.
When W won in 2000 I was elated thinking we'd turned the tide. In hindsight we really just delayed the march of the collectivists.
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:26 AM (/bVuS)
America died because people were afraid of being called a name.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2011 02:24 PM (AF1jB)
But, we're called a name anyway, so WTF do we care?
Obama said he'd give everyone of his base free shit, and he didn't, but did pay back his doners by the billion, but the dumbfucks will STILL vote for him next year.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 17, 2011 10:26 AM (UK9cE)
I saw a "top ten sexiest occpants"-type thing somewhere. CNN? Don't remember.
#1 was the only black guy they could find, and 2-10 were five or so unattractive but not ugly gentrified-Brooklyn co-op shoppers, plus a couple stinky-looking pseudo-loser hoodie dudes with square jaws.
So your answer is probably no.
Posted by: oblig. at October 17, 2011 10:26 AM (cePv8)
I can't believe how much crap he gets away with in regard to the expansion of Executive power.
I can. It's because he's black.
America died because people were afraid of being called a name.Yeah, this. I have family members who voted for the creep just because of his color. Course they try to obfuscate that fact with progressive touchy-feely bullshit. If Obama had been a white guy with all his negatives, he would have lost. Call me racist - I'm way past giving a shit about that lame charge.
Posted by: tubal at October 17, 2011 10:28 AM (BoE3Z)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at October 17, 2011 10:28 AM (qvify)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2011 10:29 AM (AF1jB)
Wonder if any of those supposed conservatives who said that McCain would have been worse then Obma are embarrased.
Posted by: Boxy Brown at October 17, 2011 10:29 AM (exCPD)
I'd also say that all the focus on his faith (if he has any at all) and his birth certificates were wastes of time.
I spent more time trying to convince folks that his marxism was far more important than his muslim background than I did anything else.
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:29 AM (/bVuS)
Posted by: Romney 2012!!! at October 17, 2011 10:31 AM (D5hxK)
Posted by: tsj017 at October 17, 2011 10:31 AM (4YUWF)
The skeptics of 2008 proved prescient; those who demonized them should be embarrassed.
I'll not be holding by breath for an apology from that scrunt Noonan or Buckley's disappointing offspring.Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:32 AM (/bVuS)
Posted by: blaster at October 17, 2011 10:32 AM (l5dj7)
His time spent in racist Wright's church was pretty telling, for anyone who bothered to pay attention.
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 17, 2011 10:32 AM (eHr/6)
Posted by: Roy at October 17, 2011 10:33 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 17, 2011 02:31 PM (sqkOB)
But that's Obama, so we're screwed.
He's already trying to side with them by using them in speeches about how they should be allowed to do that and all the civil disobedience that when it's directed at conservatives, is OK, but at liberals, is nazi.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 17, 2011 10:33 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: OregonMuse at October 17, 2011 02:12 PM
Me! I like went down there because Tina said a cool hip Republican like me should like write stuff about how totally hip and cool it is and it's not like a bunch of you know like druggie hippies.
I was like down there on Saturday afternoon but I was like hungover from clubbing so like I was hungry and all and they like got a little freaked out because I like wanted some of their veggie lasagna.
I'm still gonna write a like really cool article in Daily Beast as soon as I like find my box of crayons
Posted by: Meghan McCain at October 17, 2011 10:34 AM (Y+DPZ)
Affirmative Action. Helping America suck since 1961.
Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2011 10:35 AM (Q4+sE)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 17, 2011 02:32 PM (eHr/6)
Hell, what he said HIMSELF on the campaign trail.
Goodgodman......he SAID he wanted to spread the wealth around. Joe the Plumber got his tax records pulled and was vilified. The Marxist in Chief was labeled a damn visionary.
Posted by: © Sponge at October 17, 2011 10:35 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 17, 2011 10:36 AM (QGQHq)
It doesn't sound all that far fetched anymore either. Lots of states are getting mighty tired of being dictated to by the power mad bunch in DC. Party label rarely matters much in this regard.
We need a leader with a strong belief in the 10th Amendment that will reverse the DC choke hold on us all.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 17, 2011 10:37 AM (ENKCw)
When do we want it? Yesterday!
Posted by: Candidate for the Occupiers Party at October 17, 2011 02:36 PM (Hx5uv)
You sound like my management.
Posted by: Nighthawk at October 17, 2011 10:38 AM (OtQXp)
Goodgodman......he SAID he wanted to spread the wealth around. Joe the Plumber got his tax records pulled and was vilified. The Marxist in Chief was labeled a damn visionary.
Exactly!
When that moment didn't doom his candidacy I knew we were damn close to losing this country for good.
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:40 AM (/bVuS)
I'd also say that all the focus on his faith (if he has any at all) and his birth certificates were wastes of time.
I spent more time trying to convince folks that his marxism was far more important than his muslim background than I did anything else.
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 02:29 PM (/bVuS)
Unfortunately John Stewart wouldn't let any of this go. And that's where many of the young people that voted for the SCOAMF get their news. And once again it's the driving force behind OWS.
Rush, Beck, Hannity (sometimes), and numerous other conservative voices were warning us about his revolutionary/communist beliefs. But it's just us old fuddy-duddies that listen to them.
Fortunately for us, though, more and more of the young people are starting to see through all of the leftist schtick and are listening to conservative points of view. Too few as yet, but the numbers are growing.
Posted by: Soona - Tearorrist at October 17, 2011 10:41 AM (5JUlA)
But data released by the Treasury Department on Friday show that, so far, there hasn't been any spending cuts at all.
Didn't a bunch of us say that already when they passed that BS CR? It wasn't a cut of $38B. It was a cut of $38B from the "proposed budget" and was actually a spending increase.
And this treasury dept data is showing that as expected. Only in Washington could a pile of lying jackals call that CR a "spending cut".
Posted by: Vic at October 17, 2011 10:44 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Insomniac at October 17, 2011 10:45 AM (DrWcr)
Posted by: Free Speech at October 17, 2011 10:45 AM (2r5dH)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at October 17, 2011 10:45 AM (QKKT0)
I love this.
The market goes up: Bulls Buy On Hopes of Greece Debt Deal
The market goes down: Sell-off Amid Concerns For Eurozone.
Buncha idiots in this "market."
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 17, 2011 10:45 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 17, 2011 10:46 AM (QGQHq)
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:47 AM (/bVuS)
As all of the agrieved races claiming they are agrieved while demanding state inforced racism against whitey, let me say this: KISS MY BIG WHITE ASS. It sucks being you.
Posted by: Evil Stalin Sub-Tard at October 17, 2011 10:47 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: Free Speech at October 17, 2011 02:45 PM (2r5dH)
I just heard that as well. It's a sad day when Ron Paul! is the only candidate taking the debt crisis seriously...
Posted by: mugiwara at October 17, 2011 10:48 AM (D5hxK)
You might be a Socialist if... you think someone owes you money for a road that was built 50 years ago. -- Posted by: The Robot Devil
...like Rick Perry's administration in Texas that turned existing highways into toll roads before getting struck down. Follow the money. And beware the "planned" booby-trapped exits/entrances on existing highways turned into tolls to spite those who won't fork out more.
Posted by: didn't take long at October 17, 2011 10:49 AM (lpWVn)
Just about every State in the country is turning freeways into toll roads now.
Posted by: Vic at October 17, 2011 10:52 AM (M9Ie6)
Jon Stewart will NOT hold a "Restore Sanity" rally in response to OWS
Posted by: kbdabear at October 17, 2011 10:53 AM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Honey Badger at October 17, 2011 10:54 AM (GvYeG)
FREE MONEY!!!!!!
Posted by: © Sponge at October 17, 2011 10:54 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: nevergiveup at October 17, 2011 10:55 AM (i6RpT)
"But data released by the Treasury Department on Friday show that, so far, there hasn't been any spending cuts at all."
Didn't a bunch of us say that already when they passed that BS CR? It wasn't a cut of $38B. It was a cut of $38B from the "proposed budget" and was actually a spending increase.
And this treasury dept data is showing that as expected. Only in Washington could a pile of lying jackals call that CR a "spending cut".
CBO says the increases were in Medicaid, Social Security, Medicare, military spending, and payments for interest costs. FEMA spending likely rose early in the year too but Congress didn't have to budget it.
Posted by: Miss'80s at October 17, 2011 10:57 AM (d6QMz)
Posted by: Scott J at October 17, 2011 10:57 AM (/bVuS)
"The Republicans plan, Obama says, boils down to this: 'Dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance.'"
And WE ARE PAYING for this asshole to ride his bus around the country to trash 50% of the population? Fuck that! I hope he doesn't plan on crossing the Rappahannock river on US1 to Fredricksburg, the death star bus just might crush it. Funny how all those transport dollars don't seem to make it to highways and bridges. What's up with that?
Posted by: Evil Stalin Sub-Tard at October 17, 2011 10:57 AM (0M3AQ)
wow, that is novel
Obama is so desperate for economic recovery, he's going to federally subsidize a hiring bubble.
Brilliant!
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 17, 2011 10:58 AM (sqkOB)
Are these the Canadian buses that he bought with American tax money because he HATES THIS COUNTRY?
Posted by: © Sponge at October 17, 2011 10:58 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 17, 2011 11:00 AM (QGQHq)
The thing that really stopped me cold in my tracks when he was running for President was when he gave that speech in OR. They had a popular rock band give a "free" concert beforehand. Then he got up to the mike and said:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
That to me was the clarion call that made me realize how dangerous this guy really was.
Posted by: runningrn at October 17, 2011 11:00 AM (Lbb9+)
Posted by: Soona - Tearorrist at October 17, 2011 11:01 AM (5JUlA)
Posted by: nevergiveup at October 17, 2011 11:06 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Evil Stalin Sub-Tard at October 17, 2011 11:07 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: nevergiveup at October 17, 2011 11:09 AM (i6RpT)
I was shopping in a pawn shop over lunch hour and the jewish owner there (a very likeable guy I had just met) was detailing all the guns available, and asked me why I wanted one. I said "for self protection.....have you seen this Occupy Protest Crowd?" ...and out of the clear blue sky this guys takes off on a tangent along the lines of "I'm on the internet all day and do you know and who's funding it all? GEORGE SOROS!!1!!111!!!"
He also started talking to me about "getting active in the Tea Party". There isn't one locally because the UAW has the local area locked up with the Democratic Party (in this, an otherwise RED state) , but he had all the connections for the Tea Party from the largest city nearby.
Posted by: MrObvious at October 17, 2011 11:16 AM (2uovW)
78 ...like Rick Perry's administration in Texas that turned existing highways into toll roads before getting struck down.
Just about every State in the country is turning freeways into toll roads now.
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Yep. ....Probably moreso in the states that have no income taxes to work with.
We have both income & sales taxes in my state, and we've had toll roads being built for the last two decades. It's a way for people to get new roads, and let the ones who use them the most pay for them....which also includes the out of state traffic that is passing through.
I just wish that they would turn toll roads into no-speed-limit roads like the Autobahn. ....That would be cool.
Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at October 17, 2011 11:19 AM (CynMH)
Posted by: I'm in a New York state of mind at October 17, 2011 11:21 AM (4sQwu)
62.....We need a leader with a strong belief in the 10th Amendment that will reverse the DC choke hold on us all.
Rick Perry is the strongest 10th-er in the race.
In addition to repeatedly saying......"I would like to make Washington DC as inconsequential in our lives as possible".
Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at October 17, 2011 11:22 AM (CynMH)
Posted by: Ace's liver at October 17, 2011 11:23 AM (1+XRG)
Great excuse for being a socialist with just about every other politician in the country?
There's law prohibiting an existing section of highway already built from tax funds being renamed a toll road, the reason Perry's over-reach attempt was defeated in Texas.
Posted by: didn't take long at October 17, 2011 11:24 AM (lpWVn)
Three years ago, President Obama cynically sold hope and change to get elected. Cynical, shocking, and depraved methods are needed to save Obama and help him win re-election in 2012. The hope card has been maxed out. The race card is not enough to win an election. The new guy card is also done. That leaves the fear card and the war card. "President Obama Is Selling Fear And War To Win Re-Election in 2012"
...all that which Obama "inherited" is his own legacy.
Posted by: didn't take long at October 17, 2011 11:31 AM (lpWVn)
Not anymore. Congress changed that years ago. As I said, interstate highways are being converted to toll roads right and left.
We are one of the last holdouts here in SC but they are talking about it as we speak, using "widening of I-95" as an excuse (at the same time they are planning a useless interstate that follows the NC border through empty countryside down to Myrtle Beach.
Posted by: Vic at October 17, 2011 11:34 AM (M9Ie6)
GOP Empire's Plan to Crush Tea Party Rebels
Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic, Oct 12, 2011
The first rule of the establishment is: Do not admit you are part of the establishment!
Disarm them with praise.
Moderate whoever they pick as the 2012 nominee. Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol tells that the Republican presidential nominee merely has to be conservative enough.
"Kristol told me just after Perry entered the race, a development that essentially ended [the more radical Michele] BachmannÂ’s brief ascent. Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny."
Teach them about compromise. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, whom many wished would run for president, told a conservative conference earlier this year, "Purity in martyrdom is for suicide bombers."
Never forget reality. Say all the nice things you want about the [Tea Party] activists, but don't forget who's really running the show. Lobbyists and former House aide John Feehery said, "The thing I get a kick out of is these Tea Party folks calling me a RINO ... No, guys, IÂ’ve been a Republican all along. You go off into your own little world and then come back and say itÂ’s your party. This ainÂ’t your party."
Posted by: didn't take long at October 17, 2011 11:38 AM (lpWVn)
Outlays for FY 2011 were $145 billion above those in FY 2010, an increase of 4.2 percent. As a percentage of GDP, total outlays were 24.1 percent, unchanged from the prior year. Outlays for annually appropriated programs as a whole changed very little from the prior year because they were operating under a series of continuing resolutions culminating in the passage of the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act in April. Higher spending for interest on the public debt, Medicare, and Social Security accounted for $110 billion of the $145 billion increase in outlays relative to FY 2010.
Posted by: Miss'80s at October 17, 2011 11:40 AM (d6QMz)
But there's no getting around the fact that Pravda did a better job covering the 2008 election than the New York Times did.
Very low threshold indeed.
Posted by: dagny at October 17, 2011 11:44 AM (cWCNI)
Posted by: Live Free Or Die at October 17, 2011 11:51 AM (RMnON)
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 17, 2011 02:06 PM (Hx5uv)
What you didn't notice are:1.) America is now as much a moonbat country as not.
2.) Willful blindness hasn't gone out of style.
Posted by: Random at October 17, 2011 11:55 AM (YiE0S)
If Romney/Obama win in 2012, Emperor Soros' victory will be complete.
Ron Paul! will not win the GOP primary.
Posted by: Two Predictions Sure To Be True at October 17, 2011 11:56 AM (RMnON)
Posted by: Barack McFucknut, SCOAMF at October 17, 2011 11:56 AM (QaKuj)
Vic re: Texas if you're interested.
Corridor Watch .org references Perry's Trans Texas Corridor and acts as a reference to materials related.
Why the fuss about toll roads?
by Terri Hall
Founder, Texans Uniting for Reform & Freedom,
Texas TURF homepage
HereÂ’s the short list of reasons why toll road policy has caused a grassroots revolt: higher taxes, greater bureaucracy, unsustainable debt, and corporatism. In 2005, when I first learned that TxDOT planned to turn US 281, a freeway already built and paid for, into a tollway, it smelled like a DOUBLE TAX rip-off from the start. My fellow Texans felt the same way and a Texas-sized taxpayer revolt quickly ensued. Then when Rick Perry's agenda to sell-off Texas highways to foreign corporations spread like a canker, it was like throwing gasoline on the fire and the grassroots exploded.
Posted by: didn't take long at October 17, 2011 12:00 PM (lpWVn)
Posted by: Vic at October 17, 2011 12:08 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted on 10/17/2011 by Terri Hall
For the first time since the 80th legislative session in 2007, all the grassroots groups that took on Texas Governor Rick Perry to stop the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) and place a moratorium on public private partnerships (or P3s) gathered at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin, Saturday, October 15, to celebrate their collective victory in finally achieving the complete repeal of the Trans Texas Corridor from state statute (KolkhorstÂ’s HB 1201 was signed into law June 17, 2011).
Rep. Kolkhorst has introduced legislation to repeal the TTC for the last three sessions. This year, it finally passed. The pie-in-the-sky, 4,000-mile, 1,200 foot wide network of toll roads, rail, utilities, telecommunications, etc. that would confiscate 580,000 acres and displace 1 million Texans on TTC-35 alone is DEAD. However, in SB 1420, 14 Texas road projects remain eligible for P3s that will cost urban commuters dearly, 75 cents per mile, and still pose sovereignty, eminent domain, and monopoly concerns.
Terri Hall, Founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF) noted, “So taking a line from the movie Princess Bride, the Trans Texas Corridor is ‘mostly dead.’ Regardless of the final status, the TTC has been officially repealed, which is cause for our celebration today. We put the proponents in serious retreat, yet we will remain vigilant.”
Hall pointed out that by its own admission, the highway department (TxDOT) plans to break-up the TTC in smaller pieces and do the project using the original road or loop name like, SH 130, and Loop 9 around DFW. However, the size and scale will be greatly diminished, which Hall thinks is a tremendous victory for property rights and Texas landowners.
Posted by: didn't take long at October 17, 2011 12:08 PM (lpWVn)
"Not anymore. Congress changed that years ago."
Vic #105
There's a law in Texas.
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