There's Something About a Train That's Tragic

An Amtrak train on its way to West Virginia collided with a commercial motor vehicle this past Wednesday.

It was a chartered train carrying congressional Republicans and their families.  It collided with . . . a garbage truck near Charlottesville, Virginia.

So let me see if I have this straight . . . Republicans, the very people who make it their life's work to cut if not zero out altogether funding for intercity passenger rail and kill passenger-rail modernization programs the second they get the opportunity to do so, are involved in an accident on a train that they themselves chartered, and the accident occurs in proximity to, of all places, the city where white supremacists demonstrated and caused mayhem back in August 2017.

And they'll probably use this accident as an excuse to get rid of Amtrak completely.

Nothing makes sense anymore . . ..