“These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation’s capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them...”...So the letter goes.
I don't think Brady is complaining that the metro wasn't prepared for the hugest crowds ever assembled, but using it as an example of the excesses of Big Government. For instance, if Big Government can't even make a train run efficiently how can it possibly provide health care to 300 million people, or at least something along those lines. Sure he wanted his constituents to have a lift to the rally but it's more about highlighting government's inadequacies than anything else.
Now as you will, this brings us to a whole other point altogether. According to official WMATA reports, use of the Metro was only up roughly 80,000 riders over what it normally is for any given Saturday. That number fits squarely into numerous credible reports listing Tea Bagger attendance in the 60,000-80,000 range. This can only prove Barack Obama hijacked the WMATA computer system and changed ridership numbers causing a conspiracy to circulate around the world that Tea Baggers are stupid.
*Update:
True enough it's on the far-side of insane for "Big Government" protesters to write letters complaining about government services that failed to get them to their protest on time. I'll agree to that all day long. But really, the Metro worked just fine the day of Sept. 12. Were there lines? Sure. Did some have to take cabs? Absolutely. But to complain that it didn't meet their standards of service is elitist more than it is anti-socialist. Okay, I suppose they aren't anti-socialist when they're mad government-run programs didn't get them somewhere on time. They're just crazy, I know.
Even at Obama's inauguration, the Metro system carried about a million people that day and it was remarkably efficient. I was there. Here's a video from my cellphone showing what it really looks like when there are millions of people at a rally in DC.
**Update:
Here's what a backed up crowd trying to get through a gate really looks like when there are millions of people in DC. Again, taken from my very own cellphone at Obama's inauguration. Honestly, if there is anything that proves crowd size for the Tea Baggers it's the public transit system.
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