John Culberson, you're a dirty rat

I don’t care if you disagree with light rail or commuter rail or whatever.  We can’t continue to expand freeways indefinitely.  Some alternative has to be put in action and that alternative should be decided by the folks who will be served by that alternative.  The decision should be put in the hands of the folks selected by locally elected representatives, not some rabbit turd suburban representative to the national government.

That rat bastard Tom Delay—a rabbit turd suburban US representative—blocked and complicated every effort that Houston made to put rail lines on the ground.  Efforts, mind you, that were voted on and approved every time it was put before the people.  Why?  My only guess is because he’s a rat bastard who is comfortably nestled in the pocket of freeway construction firms.  It’s not a principle thing, because he didn’t have a problem with Dallas, or San Francisco, or LA, or Portland, or any number of other urban areas getting funding for rail lines, only Houston. 

Houston finally got up the nerve to do the light rail thing without federal money (mad props and crazy applause for that), but now that rat bastard Tom Delay’s rabbit turd successor on the Ways and Means Committee John Culberson (who has not yet earned the title “rat bastard” yet, but he’s close) is at work with some new tricks.

Expansion of the light rail line is apparently dependent on real federal funding.  We did the first stretch without them (yay!), but to effectively expand we’re going to need a little cash.  He who owns the purse strings makes the dolls dance, and sure enough that rabbit turd representative Culberson is pulling strings and making the dolls dance.  The current row is over the route the next expansion will take from the downtown area to the Galleria area.  For those of you who don’t know, traffic can be pretty bad in the Galleria area.  In fact, during the NBA’s All Star Weekend the area was pretty much shut down—like 1970s gridlock shut down—to through-traffic by the volumes of people trying to get back and forth and through.  It can be a little bit crazy ‘round there.

 

What it comes down to is the people voted for route A.  Federal funding is available for route B.  The people along the roads of route B don’t want the line going past their front door—rightfully so—which is why they voted in favor of route A in the first place.  That rabbit turd representative Culberson has his fingers all over making sure the funding was available for route B and not route A.

 

This is how it’s going to play out from here:

Metro’s going to attempt to get the money and put the rail along route B.

Someone’s going to sue the city and Metro.

The adjusted route will go to a vote (again).

The PAC funded by that rat bastard Delay and rabbit turd representative Culberson will fight the referendum.

Fueled by the local opposition along the adjusted route, the low turnout due to an off year vote (probably in March), and the PAC funding, the referendum will be defeated.

That rabbit turd representative Culberson and that rat bastard Delay will get their way, the rail line will not be expanded, and Houston will be stuck in traffic hell forever.

 

What these idiot suburban reps don’t realize (and their stupid constituents since they keep electing these clowns) is that THEIR CONSTITUENTS will be served by expanding this rail line.  The core light rail line will be the network that the commuter rails can plug in to.  If there’s nowhere to plug in to, there’s no reason to have the commuter rail lines.  It already takes 5 hours any time of day to do anything on the west side because of all the people trying to get out of their suburban hells to come to the city for entertainment, jobs, or simply some form of human contact.  And from the southwest side all the way out to the west side you have people being represented by the two most brain dead (and corrupt) representatives in congress—that rat bastard and his crony the rabbit turd.

 

It’s enough to make you want to move to their district and vote against them.