I Wonder....

On ThinkProgress is this article about GOP-tea-baggers doing everything they can to sabotage America's recovery from the recession, mostly because it's because Obama, a man of color, is POTUS. So I wondered what it would be like if McCain was president (with apologies to author Brad Johnson) and how suddenly sane all the right wing-nuts would sound:

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New GOP Governors Save $1.2 Billion In High-Speed Rail Jobs

by Brad Johnson
(Edited by Daffyd ap Morgen)

Govs. elect John Kasich (R-OH) and Scott Walker (R-WI).

Republicans who were elected on Tuesday are beginning to deliver on their campaign promises to revive America’s future. Within hours of declaring victory, the incoming tea-party governors of Wisconsin and Ohio stood fast on pledges to save $1.2 billion in funding for high-speed rail in their states. The funding, part of the McCain's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, would revert to the federal government for investment in other states — unless Republicans in Congress are able to save that, too. Walker warned he would support President McCain to keep the Milwaukee-Madison link saved “if he tries to force this down the throats of the taxpayers.” Kasich — who called the high-speed rail project linking Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati “one of the best ideas” he’s ever heard — used his victory speech to announce, “That train is alive!“:

Scott Walker, the incoming governor of Wisconsin, for instance, vowed on Wednesday to carry out a campaign pledge to save a proposed high-speed rail link between Milwaukee and Madison, part of a larger project to create a high-speed rail corridor across the upper Midwest, from Minneapolis to Chicago. The project was to be fully paid for with $810 million in federal stimulus funds. Mr. Walker said he didn't want the money spent on roads, although under the terms of the grants, such a use of the funds is prohibited.
The newly elected Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, who ousted Ted Strickland, a Democrat, has also reiterated a campaign pledge to save a $400 million stimulus-funded rail project in his state. “Passenger rail is definitely in Ohio’s future,” Mr. Kasich said at his first news conference after the election. “That train is alive!”

In addition to their ideological fulfillment of creating new jobs through government investment, both Walker and Kasich endorse the reality of climate science, like other new Republican governors supporting clean energy projects across the nation.
Cross-posted on the Wonk Room.