Editorial: Congress detours from common sense on the Highway Trust Fund

[hbelkins]

Maybe they will next ask David Letterman for his thoughts. Hell, let's dig up Sam Kinison and George Carlin and ask them.

[roadfro]

Here is Jon Stewart's take on the Highway Trust Fund situation:

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/212548-jon-stewart-tackles-highway-funding-fight

And a comedian's opinion on the subject is relevant how, exactly?

Clearly you haven't been an avid viewer of The Daily Show...

[JREwing78]

Here is Jon Stewart's take on the Highway Trust Fund situation:

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/212548-jon-stewart-tackles-highway-funding-fight

And a comedian's opinion on the subject is relevant how, exactly?

Just as relevant as that of an actor.

30 Years Ago: President Ronald Reagan Visits DOT Headquarters: The Fight for a Gas Tax Increase
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/reagan_visit.cfm

[hbelkins]

Here is Jon Stewart's take on the Highway Trust Fund situation:

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/212548-jon-stewart-tackles-highway-funding-fight

And a comedian's opinion on the subject is relevant how, exactly?

Clearly you haven't been an avid viewer of The Daily Show...

You mean a program that airs on The Comedy Channel?

If Mr. Leibowitz wants credibility, let him move his show to a news network. Otherwise he will always be a comedian.

Just as relevant as that of an actor.

30 Years Ago: President Ronald Reagan Visits DOT Headquarters: The Fight for a Gas Tax Increase
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/reagan_visit.cfm

Uhh, sorry to burst your bubble, but Reagan had moved far beyond his previous career by that time.

[wxfree]

Here is Jon Stewart's take on the Highway Trust Fund situation:

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/212548-jon-stewart-tackles-highway-funding-fight

And a comedian's opinion on the subject is relevant how, exactly?

It isn't because he is or isn't a comedian, to me, anyway.  Excluding actual experts, I don't listen to someone because of some kind of personal authority or refuse to listen because they don't have some supposed authority.  I listen to see if it makes sense or gives a logical conclusion or a new perspective.  If it does, then I consider what was said.  If it's nonsense, I disregard it.  What Jon Stewart said was funny, but also it shows the futility of these book-juggling schemes we have to resort to since representatives want to do stuff, but don't want to make people pay for it.  His main purpose is to make a joke.  His conclusion is obvious; it's the same conclusion I and many others had already reached, but he makes it funny.

[algorerhythms]

Here is Jon Stewart's take on the Highway Trust Fund situation:

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/212548-jon-stewart-tackles-highway-funding-fight

And a comedian's opinion on the subject is relevant how, exactly?

Clearly you haven't been an avid viewer of The Daily Show...

You mean a program that airs on The Comedy Channel?

If Mr. Leibowitz wants credibility, let him move his show to a news network. Otherwise he will always be a comedian.

To be fair, the news networks these days have about as much credibility as Comedy Central.

[vdeane]

Here is Jon Stewart's take on the Highway Trust Fund situation:

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/212548-jon-stewart-tackles-highway-funding-fight

And a comedian's opinion on the subject is relevant how, exactly?

Clearly you haven't been an avid viewer of The Daily Show...

You mean a program that airs on The Comedy Channel?

If Mr. Leibowitz wants credibility, let him move his show to a news network. Otherwise he will always be a comedian.

To be fair, the news networks these days have about as much credibility as Comedy Central.

Less, actually.  I don't give much credence to mainstream news for that reason.

[Scott5114]

It's amazing that "raising the gas tax is a non-starter". The government gladly pays more for any other service, and charges for any other service, when expenses rise. Why wouldn't the gas tax rise?

You're kidding me, right?  Have you actually been asleep since 1992, when an incumbent president lost re-election because he felt it necessary to raise taxes?  NO tax increase, no matter how necessary or well founded, will even get off the ground in this political climate.  Rigid adherence to ideology trumps common sense in Washington and has for too damn long.

No, he said "Read my lips, no new taxes," and then raised taxes. If he hadn't made a promise that was impossible to keep, it probably wouldn't have been a problem. That's overlooking all the other issues of the 1992 election, such as Ross Perot drawing away a percentage of the vote, the Gulf War, and so on.

[SSOWorld]

Technically, he didn't introduce new taxes.

[Scott5114]

Anyway, back to the highway trust fund topic, yes?