Memo to Paulson, Queen Chrissy and Taxandgougeme: What the people "expect" is for YOU to STFU.

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The senseless babble coming out of Olympia and Salem and the Ports concerning our impending rape as reported by our paper seems to have shifted into "ludicrous speed."

Thanks to Wallace and Pridemore, who never saw a tax or fee they didn't want to raise, we've wasted tens of millions of dollars and all we've got is a stack of paper to show for it and little else.

If we actually needed the bridge replaced; if we actually wanted loot rail to come into our county, then the nonsense from the "Bobbsey Twins" might have made a difference:

“citizens of this region have watched our two states discuss and plan for a new bridge for over 20 years, and they expect us to proceed.”

Well, here's a clue, morons: we expect you to proceed TO is to ABANDON THIS FRICKING PROJECT BEFORE YOU WASTE ANY MORE MONEY! THAT'S what we "EXPECT."

There is precisely ZERO need to tear down a perfectly functional bridge to replace it with a bridge that will do absolutely NOTHING to improve freight mobility OR reduce congestion.

You two idiots would blow a hole in our local economy of $100,000,000 A YEAR.

Why is it that when sock puppets like Paulson at the Port babble about how wonderful this dogpile is they never seem to talk about the rape of the commuters who will get stuck with the bill for this massive piece of crap? If the Port of Vancouver... or these two idiots we have for governors... want this steaming pile, then let THEM PAY FOR IT.

How easy it is for batshit crazy types who will NOT have to pay for this to insist that WE have to bear that burden for THEIR agenda?

That's what "the people expect," since the scum in charge lack the guts to ASK us what we want... a feat that speaks for itself.

When this is over, we'll be out billions; nothing will have improved, and the families living in Clark County will have been saddled with additional thousands of dollars of debt. 65,000 commuters and their families will be forced to pay for this senseless debacle... and once again, the phrase "will of the people" will be tossed on the ash heap of history by democrats... just like they tossed I-960.
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Another day, another Columbian bridge puff piece.

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Recently, it became fairly clear that when it comes to the I-5 Bridge rip off/loot rail replacement, two groups of people fail to understand the issue with Tim "The Liar" Leavitt.

The first surprised me. The second has me wondering at the motives for that failure.

The first? Local GOP'ers who supported The Liar's campaign.

Reviewing the bidding; we find that Leavitt's campaign was run by democrats including the democrat county chair, democrat county commissioner Steve "Owned and operated by David Barnett" Stuart, democrat former county commissioner Betty Sue Morris, and democrat operative Heather Melton.

And then, of course, we re-iterate what was already known: The Liar does not, and never did, oppose tolling. He merely manufactured an issue out of whole cloth to seperate himself from Pollard; and he developed this bogus tolling issue as the vehicle to do that.

Then we find out that secret negotiations between Leavitt, "Easy Money" Stuart and Sam "If you're under 18 in Portland, you can have an" Adams have taken place to reduce the size of the bridge even more... to 3 through lanes and one loot rail lane each way, period (the babbling supporters continuing lies about 6 lanes going both ways notwithstanding; there was never more then 6 through lines on the bridge proposal, just like the 6 lanes we have, well, right now)

The issue that surprised me the most on the issue of support is that the GOP'ers would be so badly taken in and hosed by The Liar.

The second here is that our local fishwrapper, hypocritically rabid bridger/looters who won't, like most bridger/looters, have to pay for the project that will blow a $100,000,000 yearly hole in our local economy seems unable to grasp the fact that Leavitt does, in fact, support tolling; always has and always will.

When a clown like Leavitt SAYS he opposes tolls but then won't oppose the bridge when tolls are required because that lying moron isn't an "obstructionist," well, that makes both him AND his so-called "opposition" worthless.

Democrats who want to ram the project down our throats ran Leavitt's campaign. Is there anyone out there who can't make the connection?

Now, there is no doubt that the people of Clark County don't want this thing. It's a massive and unneeded waste of money that anyone paying attention to would see in a minute. Thanks to Deb Wallace and Craig Pridemore, we've wasted $100,000,000 on studies with pre-ordained outcomes (It was never in doubt that the only acceptable option to the Downtown Mafia was replacing the I-5 Bridge and bringing loot rail in using the new bridge... in fact, loot rail was the only real reason to replace the bridge from the start)

And the powers that be, including our massive waste of wood pulp known as a "paper," would rather dive into a boiling vat of hydrochloric acid then do what ethics and morality require (if not the law) and put this massive waste of money to a vote.

This project engages in massive over-promising and under-delivering and it would sentence 65,000 current commuters to paying, in addition to Oregon income tax, a $1300 per year fee just to go to work.

So, we have Kulongoski appointing yet another captain to our particular Titanic.

Well done. But then, I guess he needs someone to blame it on as well, right?
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No lie the Columbian or bridge/loot rail supporters won't tell to get their crap pile built.

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There's a certain commonality to the vast majority of bridge/loot rail supporters.

First and foremost, they all, each and every one of them, lie.

They lie about needing to replace the I-5 Bridge. They lie about light rail. They lie about tolls. They lie about "studies." They lie about bridge safety. They lie about how this massive waste of billions will positively impact congestion. They lie about freight mobility.

And some of them, like Tim "The Liar" Leavitt, lie about it so well it gets them elected to office.

Second, and most importantly; few, if any of them, will have to pay the tolls every working day that they want us to pay. And how incredibly easy is it for the scum who won't have to pay for this to demand that those of us who will must do so, even without asking us.

That's why, when our local disgrace of a paper comes out with another lying, one-sided, steaming pile of propaganda like this, well, I just have to step up and challenge the scum who, once again, are attempting to shove this turd down our throats.

One need get no farther then the lie of a headline:

Kulongoski shores up support for new I-5 bridge

to know this is yet another45 in the series of lying, completely biased and exaggerated puff pieces our waste of wood pulp is pounding out in support of it's agenda and in opposition to the will of the people this stain on the cover of journalism is SUPPOSED to serve.

Kulongoski (Aka Taxandgougeme) doesn't have the throw weight of seagull poop over here.

That this despicable rag even remotely thinks that this guy coming over here and babbling about a bridge that he will rarely use and certainly will have to pay next to nothing for is going to make any difference or convince anyone of anything besides the fact that this clown has a monumental ego just goes to show how utterly clueless, moronic and out of touch this waste of space paper actually is.

In short, no one cares.

GOD could come down here and tell us this bridge is what we need to replace and THAT wouldn't make it so. Having a clown who doesn't live here come up here and tell us what WE need to do makes as much sense as believing the Columbian isn't a fringe-left publication run by the DNC.

In fact, Kulongoski's babble will hurt this effort as much as the Portland Business Association's endorsement clobbered Pollard... who should have told them "Don't do me any favors."

In 2010, this bridge/loot rail project is going to be hung around the neck of every idiot moronic enough to support it. And Teddy coming here, and no amount of bullshit from our local despicable rag is going to change that one iota.
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