The Sin Express

Nickname for the proposed high-speed rail link between Anaheim California (the home of Disneyland) and Las Vegas.

Michael Cooper wrote in The Caucus blog:

It is the Republican talking point that won’t die, even though it has little if any basis in reality: what they claim is an earmark in the federal stimulus package for a high-speed train from Disneyland to Las Vegas.

Ever since Democrats added $8 billion for high-speed rail projects into the final stimulus bill, Republicans have cast it as pork that will give the Senate’s Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, a magnetic levitation train project that he has supported in the past that could go from Anaheim, Calif., to Las Vegas in 86 minutes.

Cooper wryly observed, “Some have even called it a ‘Sin Express‘ (presumably thinking of the train heading toward Vegas, not Disneyland).”