Posted on 05/13/2015 5:08:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
“Hrs ago, Republicans chose 2 cut Some of The meager Funds, 4 AMTRAK!!” Cher tweeted.
“They did this EVEN AFTER the Train Crash & loss of Life, last nite!!” she said.
“Majority of GOP congressmen & senators don’t give a flying Fk about the wellbeing of Americans,” Cher said in a separate tweet. “They defund Everything PPL DESPERATELY NEED.”
Cher’s remarks followed Northeast Regional Train 188’s derailment in Philadelphia late Tuesday.
The House hit Amtrak with reductions Wednesday as part of a $55 billon funding bill for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.
The GOP-sponsored measure shrinks Amtrak’s available cash to $1.13 billion, down from roughly $1.4 billion Congress appropriated in 2015.
Democrats argued Wednesday the maneuver exposed Republican insensitivity towards Tuesday night’s accident.
“Last night, we failed them,” Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said of Train 188’s victims.
“We failed to invest in their safety,” he said. “We failed to make their safety our priority.”
“It defies the interests of the American people,” he added.
Republicans countered that Democrats were politicizing a tragedy without fully understanding its cause.
“I was disappointed to hear my colleague talk about the funding for Amtrak and to suggest that because we haven’t funded it, that’s what caused the accident, when you have no idea what caused the accident,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) of Israel’s remarks.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators announced Wednesday that Train 188’s engineer had tried using its emergency brakes.
That measure failed, the agency argued, given the train was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour.
The Federal Railroad Administration lists the speed limit for the section of track where the crash occurred as 50 miles per hour.
Tuesday’s derailment killed seven passengers and wounded at least 140 more.
Raise the price of tickets on Amtrak to cover the actual costs and let the Progressives who use it pay for it.
An Indian Bruce Jenner
This elderly idiot merits no answer. No amount of money can help a train that is being driven 106 mph on a 50 mph curve. The government can’t run a train, a tax collecting agency, or health care.
Shut up Chair, now go paint yer lawn green.
Guess the Turks didn’t get all the Armenians.
And like you, Cher, the driver of the train going 106mph in a 50 mph zone is a GAY ACTIVIST! How ya like that, girlie?
Some “stars” should be seen, some should be heard. Some should be neither seen nor heard. Cher is in the last category.
The scholar Cher says it the republican’s fault and not the islamist that you were blaming.
I suspect the guy was sleeping, which makes him an islamist facilitator nonetheless. Cher seems like one too.
Republicans should vow en masse to refuse to vote one penny more for infrastructure improvements until Obama and the 'rats provide a complete public accounting of what happened to all that money.....
The big scandal here is that someone is reading Cher’s twitter feed and thinking that the contents are news-worthy. Cher requires a lot of attention. If she does not get it, she will make outlandish comments on twitter.
I just looked at her Twitter feed. It’s littered with emoticons. If I didn’t know whose page I was looking at I would have assumed it belonged to a 12 year old girl.
I guess the Rats should have fixed everything when they controlled both Houses and the Presidency from 2009 to 2011.
Wonder why they didn’t?
Didn’t she once believe Mount Rushmore was a naturally occurring phenomenon? Or is that some sort of urban legend? I’m going to go with she thought it was carved by lightning
Has she ever called for removing deadly trees from ski slopes? (Sorry Sonny...)
This new engine makes it on time
Leaves 30th Street station ‘bout ten after nine
Hits Port Richmond at nine twenty one
At 100 per hour you know it’s going just fine
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Brandon Bostian you better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Right! THAT’S why our schools are SUCH a stand-out model of success!! :)
You are aware that Sonny Bono was a successful businessman and a REPUBLICAN congressman, right?
The humanoid version of a rash that won’t go away...
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