It’s Bush’s Fault Redux
MINNEAPOLIS – The entire span of an interstate bridge broke into sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening bumper-to-bumper traffic Wednesday, sending vehicles, concrete and twisted metal crashing into the water.
Hometown newspaper The Star-Tribune reported that nine people had been confirmed dead, 60 had been taken to hospitals and at least 20 remained missing early Thursday. The Associated Press put the number dead at seven so far.
Less than 24 hours after the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis and while the search is continuing for survivors, the Democrats have already politicized this tragedy.
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) opened the Thursday session of the Senate, he warned that the bridge disaster was a “wake-up call” regarding infrastructure investment across the country.
Later, Reid and other Democratic leaders went a step further, bashing Republicans for failing to pass a water resources and development act, known as WRDA on Capitol Hill, for seven years, saying that the bill was essential to investing in American infrastructure.
It is an unadulterated abomination that the Democrats would use this tragedy for political gain before all the the victims are accounted for–much less buried. This shows, with certitude, the lack of morality these democratic interlopers have.
How far do you think the 20 billion dollars the Democrats used to buy the votes to pass the Iraq war spending bill, with a withdrawal date, would go towards repairing infrastructure? How far would Rep. John Murtha’s (D-Pa) $150,000,000 in earmarked programs he attached to the 2008 military spending bill would go? How far would Rep. Bill Young’s (R-Fla.) $117,000,000 go towards infrastructure? Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), not wanting to be left out of the pork projects race, got her 11 projects valued at $37.3 million in the mix. Harry Reid had $36 million in the fiscal 2006 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. There are 1337 earmarks attached to this bill making both side are just as guilty.
Bush has had a busy past couple of year causing catastrophes. He was blamed by the far left for causing hurricane Katrina by not signing the Kyoto Protocol. If he had signed it he would have shifted the blame back to God for causing the natural disaster. He is also responsible for the aftermath of Katrina by strategically blowing up the levies to divert the flood away from the rich part of New Orleans to the 9th ward area and causing the flooding of the black part of town.
He also caused the Indiana University Dentistry School’s cheating scandal in which nine students were kicked out of school and 16 were suspended and 21 more were reprimanded. 46 students out of a student body of 95 were involved in the cheating — more than half.
Here’s what Dr. Anne Koerber, associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, an expert in dental education had to say:
When you have persons in high places who clearly lie about what’s happening with weapons of mass destruction… I think the general public gets the idea that anything that makes money is what’s right.”
This has nothing to do with Bush, but shines a light on the dimwitted thought process of the left. In 1989, after the San Francisco earthquake, an interstate highway bridge collapsed and killed hundreds. It was blamed on Republicans and their tax cuts, not the earthquake. The Democrats let God, and his natural disasters, off the hook on this on too. Here is an excerpt between Pat Buchanan and Michael Kinsley from CNN’s Crossfire:
Michael Kinsley: “If they had spent the money, which they are now planning to spend to fix the Bay Bridge, beforehand, which they didn’t, in part because of Proposition 13 and other Republican budget-cutting programs, that bridge wouldn’t have collapsed, there would be people alive today.”
Pat Buchanan: “The California budget is about two and a half times what it was in 1978. What are you talking about?…Why don’t you blame it on Reagan? That would be consistent.”
Kinsley: “I’m blaming it on Reagan, you, and all the other cheap Republicans who don’t understand the good things government does.”
– Exchange on CNN’s Crossfire, October 18, 1989.
The left is blaming the bridge collapse in Minneapolis on Bush is just modus operandi for these windbags. It is apparent to that no matter what catastrophe or where it occurs, it is George Bush’s fault or at least a Republican’s.
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“the Democrats have already politicized this tragedy.”
There is a picture of George W. Bush standing on top of the ruins of the twin towers with a megaphone, pledging to capture those responsible. He didn’t give that speech from his office that day. Hey gave it standing on top of the ruins.
Politicizing tragedy is what politicians do. All of them.
Just another good reason to impeach the bastard!!