Democrats missed a golden opportunity to ask Alito about this: does a fetus count as a second “person” for purposes of the carpool lane?
I am a fairly strong critic of abortion on demand, but: get out of my carpool lane, lady.
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What about corporations? Surely they count as persons, right?
As to people invading “your” carpool lane, I’ll start to sympathize just as soon as the state stops funding carpool lanes from gas taxes and the general fund, and starts funding them with a tax on carpools.
Xrlq (428dfd) — 1/13/2006 @ 7:02 amI’d pay a toll. Just gimme the carpool lane.
Patterico (929da9) — 1/13/2006 @ 7:20 ambut officer, my seeing-eye dog is just like a person!
biwah (f5ca22) — 1/13/2006 @ 8:07 amDo you think this chick complains at the supermarket express lane that a 12-pack of Coke that the guy in front of her is buying counts as 12 items?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) (dfa1f1) — 1/13/2006 @ 9:00 amBlame the feds for the carpool-lane thing: they mandate them for federal funding.
And you CAN pay a toll to use the carpool lane — it’s called a Prius. Too high a toll for my tastes, but hey…
Kevin Murphy (6a7945) — 1/13/2006 @ 9:05 amDemocrats?
I’m surprised Tom Coburn didn’t bring this up as the latest outrageous example of the leftist, anti-family judicial activism that he wants Alito to help overturn as soon as possible.
SoCalJustice (99cf7b) — 1/13/2006 @ 2:43 pmKevin, are you sure about that? I could have sworn they originated with Governor Moonbeam. When I lived in Chicago in the 1990s, there were express (limited access) lanes, but no carpool lanes.
Xrlq (816c74) — 1/13/2006 @ 5:03 pmDo you think this chick complains at the supermarket express lane that a 12-pack of Coke that the guy in front of her is buying counts as 12 items?
I had a guy make a similar complaint once. I had a bag of apples among my items, and he said that if you counted each apple, I had at least 17 items. I grabbed his bag of ice and said, “I bet you have hundreds of pieces of ice in here.”
Patterico (929da9) — 1/13/2006 @ 5:53 pmWhy are we calling these carpool lanes? These are now carpool-and-Toyota-Prius lanes in California. These are virtue lanes. Fine, part of the joy of living here is laughing at insane crap like this. Let firemen, teachers and hospital workers have huge-ass stickers they can put on their cars to let them ride in these virtue lanes too. A fetus would get you the virtue sticker only if that fetus was conceived in a different country. Logically that makes no sense; what feels right is what’s important.
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charles (e46637) — 1/14/2006 @ 4:22 amCarpool lanes have almost no impact on the number of people who carpool. People who work together and live close together have always carpooled when they could. They didn’t need to be told the advantages. Most people who drive solo have no alternative unless they hire riders.
Walter E. Wallis (8a1177) — 1/16/2006 @ 10:42 amI have tried to get a requirement that government produce a study on carpool lanes before they make any more, but no luck.