Monday, August 6, 2007

Here is something pretty disturbing…

that will get buried by most media outlets! Yes, these are our heroes! From The Progress Report, the daily e-mail from the Center for American Progress:

Fox pundit Bill Kristol claimed the Minneapolis bridge collapse didn't "symbolize any great failure of our infrastructure."

That bastion of positivity and wonderful thinking is at it again. Don’t forget, he’s the guy that likes his governments “small enough that you can drown it in the bathtub”.

But it gets better!

Bush said he would veto a bill that would increase the national bridge and highway maintenance budget from $4 billion to $5 billion.

Yeah! I know Bush is a dick, but come on! You just went there for a photo-op and pretended like you cared! Why not pony up a couple of bucks to prevent it from happening elsewhere—let alone the very bridges your family drives on! Ah, that would be too compassionate for this conservative…

Sen. Chuck Schumer warned, "Our maintenance of our bridges and highways [has] been cut back for too long."

Of course they have! That study that showed that nearly 1/3 of all bridges are under code should have lit a fire under these jerks, but…

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