{"id":191163,"date":"2009-09-17T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/17\/adventures-in-wankitude-2\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T17:43:00","slug":"adventures-in-wankitude-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/17\/adventures-in-wankitude-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Wankitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest spin on the attendance at the &#8220;912&#8221; demonstration from the wingnuts, which implies that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">they<\/span> thought that the attendance was anemic, was that the Washington DC Metro was simply unprepared for accommodating &#8220;massive&#8221; influx of passengers.<\/p>\n<p>You know, less than 80,000 riders on a system that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Metro\">accommodates over 900,000 riders a day<\/a> is not a big surge.<\/p>\n<p>More telling, however, is that one of the loudest voices complaining about the quality of service is Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX-8), who <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/stimulus-package\/gop-rep-who-suggested-d-c-metro-hurt-912-turnout-voted-against-metro-funding\/\">voted against additional funding to the DC Metro earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Votes against funding the Metro, then complains that it lacks adequate resources.<\/p>\n<p>[on edit]<br \/>Yes, the Republicans are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">literally<\/span> demanding that Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/history\/govern\/trains.asp\">make the trains run on time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest spin on the attendance at the &#8220;912&#8221; demonstration from the wingnuts, which implies that they thought that the attendance was anemic, was that the Washington DC Metro was simply unprepared for accommodating &#8220;massive&#8221; influx of passengers. You know, less than 80,000 riders on a system that accommodates over 900,000 riders a day is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,978,982,1035,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-politics","category-stupid","category-transportation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}