[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I’m a rules person - I don’t think rules are for others and not me - I don’t understand why Bundy stopped paying fees. He is in the wrong there. But then again, why did the gov back down when the reid info came out? Did Reid ask them to back off? There is a lot of fishy stuff here

[xsmommy]

wasn’t there some endangered tortoise at issue also?

[xsmommy]

xshub and i read this in the paper version of the weekly standard. i do not get the guy's point, and i do not see how a conservative could be against HOT lanes. i ROUTINELY use the HOT line to get xsbrownie to and from her class when going from Fairfax to Alexandria. He seems to say the value is uncertain, it most certainly IS certain. I see the beltway is all brakelights in the direction i need to be going in to get her to class for 6:30 pm. i see few people in the HOT lane, so i will gladly pay a fee [via the remote transponder] to not have to sit in that soup, and get her to NOVA on time. Paying for not having to deal with traffic is a valuable product.

i have to say, this paragraph had me howling aloud, and it sounds far more like something a LEFTIST would say, than a market forces believing conservative:

HOT lanes are often derisively referred to as “Lexus lanes”—that is, special roads where Richie Rich can speed along in his roadster, a monocle in one eye and hundred-dollar bills flying out the window. The defenders of HOT lanes don’t like this term. After a Washington Post columnist questioned the Beltway’s HOT lane project in 2012 using the L-word, Toll Roads News, the industry’s bible, ran an editorial calling the columnist a “lame-brained lefty.”

Call it whatever you like, just give me the opportunity to pay to drive freely down the road instead of sitting in the traffic-choked beltway traffic.

annnnd here you see where i got today's WFTD... The specter of “induced demand” was a good excuse to not build more highways, which has been the prime directive of environmentalists, urban planners, and other bien pensants of the administrative state for the last 35 years.

[SoothingDave]

I am guessing the feds backed off in order to de-escalate. The militias were looking for a battle.

[Texan5]

I think so, too-he does owe the grazing fees. My contractor compadre said yesterday that someone should set up a website to help Bundy with the back-owed grazing fees-then he could pay them, be in the right, and have a much stronger case. Makes sense to me...

And that stupid tortoise isn’t endangered any more, if it ever was-there is a sanctuary for it where there are so many that they are killing them off...