I agree. It's tough to imagine that people think the SPP, which has its own website, does not exist. They are truly stupid. On the other hand, finding a stupid State senator isn't that difficult. Finding a stupid State senator and holding him or her representative of the whole is playing stupid. I stand corrected.
Sorry, I maybe didn't make it clear I was referring to Sen. Roberts, the senior U.S. Senator from Kansas. He knew all about the K.C. "inland port" -- he was just shining on a constituent who a) asked an awkward question and b) made a reference to "the NAFTA Highway" which the good Senator interpreted as a bullsteerable lack of specific knowledge about the project. If the constituent (who was a union shop steward, I believe, which if Sen. Roberts knew it might have influenced his decision to try to bullsteer the guy) had made instead very specific references to NASCO and SPP and called some of the appropriations bills by their names and numbers, then perhaps Roberts would have decided the jig was up and that he had to address the issue instead of blowing it off the way he did.
Roberts is a Republican, by the way, in his fifth term as Senator with a lifetime ACU rating of 87 and a 2006 rating of 84 (versus 94 lifetime for third-termer Brownback). He's very definitely a member of the Club.