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[QUOTE]Originally posted by irishchieftain: [QB] Gotta love the one-issue posters. If a "senator of 25 years mirrors the attitudes of his constituents", transportation policy is not a large piece of that puzzle, especially when it comes to a state with an average population density of 56 people per square mile. (McCain, as noted before, does not control [URL=http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:wtZ0nhduFXAJ:tpd.az.gov/pps/budget.asp+arizona+department+of+transportation+budget&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera]this[/URL].) I reiterate that the most important item on Obama's plate is going to be foreign policy. China is already pressuring Obama to hold off on balancing the budget and investing in domestic industry in the US; the EU is pressuring him to renegotiate the Bretton Woods agreement; Iran is holding him to the "no preconditions" terms of negotiation and is warning him to back off on his rhetoric opposing the development of a nuclear weapon; Russia is not being very subtle about not proceeding with a US missile shield in Poland and other former Soviet-bloc countries. Once (if) Obama gets beyond that, then he will most likely work on the many other agendas of himself and his party, and there are a plethora of those unrelated to transportation; indeed, if so-called "partisan bickering" (or in-party bickering) is dispensed with, then a lot of these agendas can be rammed through, and then we'd have to worry more about social upheaval than if we can get a train from one city to the other. (FTR, Timbuktu is in Mali, West Africa. It would be surprising if the US Senate had jurisdiction there.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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