Kicking the national addiction to oil and building more roads are diametrically opposed as policy positions. But President Obama appeared giddily unaware of the contradiction when he christened the 10,000th Stimulus road-building project in Ohio today. Touching down for less than an hour in Columbus, flanked by One-Term Ted of Ohio, aka Governor Strickland, the President touted the temporary construction jobs that will come from laying more asphalt over open ground as exactly what the country needs. http://www.politicsdaily.com/...
The President said that building these roads will bring more private investment as a result -- a theory that hasn't drawn academic support since the Pleistocene, roughly. The Governor chimed in acknowledging that just building roads won't do the trick (duh), and then proceeded to chide the "private sector" and the banks for not providing enough investment and credit (yeah, that'll work).