(No, the CRC debacle is NOT the USCG's fault.) Sorry to discover Elizabeth Hovde hasn't recovered from her head injury...

.... because that's the only possible explanation for this idiocy.

It's disappointing to see that Hovde is still suffering from her recent, serious head injury, because their can be no other way to explain this babble.

In every way from the lie that our current, paid for and fully functional I-5 bridge "is the only red light between Canada and Mexico," to the implied lie that the infrequent bridge lifts are, in any way a justification for this massive, multi-billion dollar ripoff, a ripoff the Oregon State Supreme Court has indicated is ENTIRELY driven by Portland's loot rail fetish, Hovde has shown a complete lack of understanding of these issues.

When Hovde spews:

"Thank goodness the CRC isn't throwing its hands up in the air and saying, 'Duh,'" she doesn't understand that the PEOPLE would like nothing better.

It's because her obviously still-dysfunctional brain can't grasp the fact that the people of Clark County do not WANT this, do not NEED this and cannot AFFORD these indefinite, always increasing tolls that Hovde and her Portland-living ilk are so thrilled about. One wonders: would she and all of the rest of the scam cheerleaders be so thrilled about this if SHE or THEY had to go out of pocket, say, $1300 a year or so... to start.... in addition to oregon income taxes... forever?

Of course not. And yet, she has continued to fail to demand that we be afforded the privilege of giving our permission before this fiscal sex act is jammed in and broken off.

The USCG is not, of course, "responsible for doing the math," any more then county engineering is responsible for modifying your building plan for a garage. They either approve, of disapprove, and then tell you why. That's how it's ways been done, and it's the applicant's responsibility to make sure that they meet the requirements BEFORE they SUBMIT THE PLAN, because, except to a moron, the requirement that the plan be legal BEFORE it is submitted is the reality we ALL face any time we need a permit to build anything.

And frankly, Elizabeth, the CR scam just ain't that special.