High Speed Rail!

California will get a lot of the funds:

California will receive a $2.34 billion slice of the $8 billion of federal stimulus funds earmarked for high-speed rail projects, more than any other state. But that is only a sliver of the $42 billion it will need to build an 800-mile line to carry the nation's first 220-m.p.h. trains.

The big winner, of course, was Obama's home state of Illinois:

Illinois would reap $1.23 billion in economic stimulus awards for high-speed rail projects under President Barack Obama's plan for $8 billion in such spending nationwide.

Obama keeps ramming this idea about getting special interests and lobbyists out of Washington, but that process clearly would involve getting himself out of Washington. His favoritism towards his home state has been nothing short of shameful. I just don't understand why Illinois is getting such a big piece of a pie that quite frankly isn't that large to begin with. Selfish poltics at its best.