Life in "Progress" City - Cincinnati edition

So you're house is getting ready to be foreclosed on. You're 60 delinquent on your car payment. Your credit cards are maxed out and your kids haven't had a good meal in a week. What do you do?

Well, if you are a "progressive" you work out a deal to do a home edition so you can have a TV room for yourself.

That's the equivalent deal "progressives" are trying to work out this week in Cincinnati, as they attempt to fund the world's largest Lionel Train set...........

A momentous Cincinnati City Council debate this week on the $128 million streetcar plan will be packed with political intrigue and drama - unusually sharp passions on both sides, thorny ethics questions, eleventh-hour arm twisting and the expected presence of a seriously injured council member whose vote could be pivotal.

The highest drama about Wednesday's council meeting, though, is whether there will be enough votes to give a green light to the proposed Downtown-to-Uptown streetcar, something that appears less than certain despite Mayor Mark Mallory's prediction that he has a dependable majority in hand.

I think I get the liberal fascination with trains now. See the Gekko's love to watch all of our little nephews play with their Thomas the Tank Engine sets. But it's really clear that liberal parents must have made their boys play with dolls; hence the infatuation.

Spending money you don't have. Now that's "Progessive"!

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