More than a decade ago, Californians voted yes on Proposition 1A to authorize the building of a big, beautiful bullet train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles. On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom finally bit the bullet on the high-speed train’s $5 billion sunk cost and put the project out of its misery.

President Barack Obama’s transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, once bragged that Californians were “obviously way, way ahead of everyone else,” heralding the administration’s billions in federal funding to the state for the bullet train. Republicans, not just in California but ones across the country who didn’t want to foot the bill, warned that the train would be far more cost-, time-, and labor-intensive than rosy eyed environmentalists claimed, but the Democratic leadership in Sacramento and the White House ignored them, pressing on with the proposal as a green beacon of hope to prevail over the stupid concerns of idiot conservatives.