Now that McCain is getting testy and giving us some "straight talk" (swoon!), I look forward to the AP article defending McCain on this issue.

Why so snarky, Mr. Crowley?  Maybe if you don't have a car, or bicycle, or don't use mass transit, or for some reason you oppose interstate commerce, then yeah, the highway system can start to look like a special interest.  Try to keep an open mind, dude.

what special interests is he referring to? The motorist who doesn't want the bridge he crosses to collapse from underneath him because each states Transportation authority won't have the money to keep up with repairs? Under McCain, every bridge will be a bridge to nowhere.

John McCain, heroically standing up against the road-using lobby, on behalf of car and truck drivers.

It's not politics, it dada performance art.

The funny thing is that (if the price of gas doesn't just float back up) the most relief will go to the trucking industry.

This is a thrill< I save $3.60 a tank.  Even if I'm poor, does that pay the rent?  It gets me two McDonalds meals a week.  I suppose that's something.  But, if you're so poor that $3.60 really helps, can you afford gas at $40/tank, $50/tank, $60/tank?  Can you afford a car?

By, the way, how 'bout this scenario-- McCain and Hillary run on the same ticket.  They keep agreeing on stuff, anyway.

I've actually been wondering about that possibility, seriously, of late.  Old drinking buddies that they are...

I honestly think McCain is about as good as Republicans get. However,  as others have pointed out, this statement of his is patently ridiculous. Either that, or I have missed the memo expounding on how provlding for transportation systems now constitutes the equivalent of aiding and abetting special interests...

McCain is such a straight shooter that nothing he does could ever be for an improper reason.  If it were improper, he would not have done it  When will the liberal media ever figure this out?

I think that McCain should have something better than this to offer, and maybe he needs to change the team.  It seems to me that he's suffering from a kind of mirror image of what's dogging Hillary and Barack.  The conventional wisdom is that McCain is now leaning back, hands behind his head, chilling, and watching the Dems eviscerate each other.  But this may a bit off-target.  In fact, McCain may feel that the undercurrent of debate in the country is not "who's going to get the Democratic nomination, Hillary or Barack?" but "who's going to be president?"  He needs to insert himself into the political debate and counter this, but it's not easy at the moment because nobody's interested in what he has to say.

Chan what is coming over you?

Did anyone else note the letters in yesterday's NYTimes (2 of them) complaining that unless the the two readers got tax relief they would not be able to buy groceries or go to work (by implication) and that only "elitists" wouldn't understand what a dreadful hardship that would be.

I have a proposal, except that the NYTimes would never print it...Those readers should just give up on the Sunday NYTimes for the summer and read it on line.  They'd save a lot more money.

Did anyone else note how Hillary, once again, instead of backing off of one dumb idea, is instead digging in her heels, submitting legislation to effect this in the US Senate?  And her women supporters are impervious to her foolishness.  I'm beginning to rethink the wisdom of having given women the vote.  They are too emotional. (Heresy!)

Didn't Bill say about his wife:  "Once she's made up her mind about something, I can no sooner change it than throw this desk out the window."  He was talking about the desk in the White House.  Needless to say a big one.  Just the type of stick to it stubborness we need in the White House.  Bush III anyone?