Usually, they don’t allow bills to get to the Senate floor at all unless they have the 60 votes to stop a filibuster.

My fantasy is that, in this case, they will let the bill get to the floor in the fall and will let the Republicans show that they are ignorant obstructionists by filibustering. Everyone will see that the Republicans are not only trying to obstruct a bill passed by the House and supported by the majority of the Senate; they are also trying to stop the entire world from making progress at Copenhagen. I expect there would be a long series of statements from world leaders and from scientists condemning the Republicans’ tactics and pointing out their factual errors. And I expect that the filibuster would ultimately collapse.

(One charged with driving with a suspended license after Saturday fatality.)

And how many of those were there at the time Fifth Avenue was built and the sidewalks were narrowed? Not too many.

Transit riders and pedestrians were paying all the taxes back then, and they paid, because motor vehicles appropriated an infrastructure others had paid for.

An analogy would be taxing drivers to pay and endow a first class passenger rail system, and subsequently claim that if paid for itself.

Today, drivers in some ways subsidize transit, but only because of the state of transit after several decades of the reverse. And in any event, most motor vehicle specific taxes go to limited access highways.