Masshole Libs Love Airpork
Have you ever been stuck in maddening traffic on the highway outside Boston? Or ground your teeth on a crowded platform at a T station, waiting for an endlessly delayed train? Well, then, you'll be thrilled to find out that Taxachusetts' dynamic duo of senators just wrung a bunch of cash out of the Feds for home-state transportation projects ! Let's see which ones they're proudest of:
$4 million for the Barnstable Municipal Airport Air Traffic Control Tower Replacement Project;
$4 million for the Nantucket Memorial Airport Air Traffic Control Tower Replacement Project;
Huh. Yes, that will certainly come in handy, to make it easier to ... uh, fly to the shore, and, um ... you know, windsurf and such.
Well, it can'tallbe for rich-people airports, can it?
$1 million for the Steamship Authority's Oak Bluffs Ferry Terminal Reconstruction;
JESUS FUCK WHAT THE HELL KIND OF STATE STILL HAS A FUCKINGSTEAMSHIP AUTHORITY?Seriously, I think $1 million probably paid for the Navy's entire fleet of ironclads during the 1870s. "Steamship Authority" is obviously code for "Ted Kennedy's bar tab."
KENNEDY, KERRY ANNOUNCE SENATE APPROVAL OF $12.5 MILLION FOR MASSACHUSETTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORTATION, AND HOUSING PROJECTS [kennedy.senate.gov]