I love this rant by Nick Gillespie of Reason. It sounds like at some point he had some hope in Obama, but that hope is now dashed.

Gillespie is beside himself with Obama’s silly yammering about high speed rail. Gillespie is correct to point out that high speed rail has almost nothing to do with traffic congestion. High speed rail moves people between cities, but traffic is centered in and around cities. The traffic I drive though in Washington, D.C. is almost exclusively caused by people trying to get from one part of the D.C. metro area to another. When I get in a traffic jam on Sunday afternoon on I-66, it isn’t caused by people who could be taking high speed rail to the sprawling metropolis of Front Royal, VA.

Wasting billions on high speed rail is silly. It can’t be defended. America’s rail transport system is actually pretty good. But unlike Europe’s, which almost exclusively carries passengers, America’s almost exclusively carries freight.

This is my luxury of living in the minority. I get to criticize the Democrats and the Republicans.