Eliminating competing bus routes is a typical ploy of the pols to increase ridership and reduce cost overruns. In Phoenix, we spent more than $3B on lite rail. The cost projections were less than 50% of actual in some cases and the city has eliminated bus routes and turned up the AC (in the summer) to save money. This is all predictable behavior. Only a few blocks in a few cities in America can financially sustain a lite rail system. I don't believe Phoenix (or Seattle) fits any of those sustainability metrics. This is all being done due to the liberal belief system regarding population and development.

Sen. McCain is not a far right conservative...duh. His move to the right is political...again, duh. He's a politician after all. Like many in the GOP (someone mentioned Gov. Perry above) he's supported some policies that aren't entirely consistent with staunch conservatism. Some of the positions he's taken rile me up (campaign finance anyone?). That said, I would take him over JD Hayworth any day of the week. Hayworth is just a blowhard and a pompous jerk. He was a local TV announcer before he got into politics and he just gotten louder and more verbose from there. McCain isn't perfect and I wish he were more conservative. Hayworth is no better and quite probably worse.