San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Debra Saunders' article, The Democrats' New Pork: Trains to Nowhere, at Real Clear Politics, points out how newly elected Republican governors in Ohio and Wisconsin are rejecting high speed rail projects the feds are trying to force on them. Only those fiscal fool Democrats in California are still steaming full speed towards yet another politically correct train wreck. Reading Saunders' article inspired me to check on the latest developments of our own budget-busting, one-hundred-mile-long boondoggle here in New Mexico, the Rail Runner. Destined to someday be known as Richardson's Folly, this tax-devouring deception was conceived by carpetbagger, Democrat Governor, Bill Richardson, when he still had presidential aspirations and knew that high speed rail was a favored icon of the PC Democrat base and a guaranteed resumé enhancer for a Democrat presidential contender. Rubber-stamped by a compliant, Democrat-controlled New Mexico legislature, the...(Read Full Post)