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Posted on 05/25/2013 6:29:42 AM PDT by Libloather
The day after a four-lane interstate bridge in Washington state collapsed, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is using the incident to blame Republicans for the "dangerous consequences" of the sequestration spending cuts that started in March.
"For 62 days, the American people have waited for House Republicans to move forward with the budget process and replace the devastating sequester cuts that are slashing into our country's safety net, national security, and public infrastructure," Pelosi's office said in a press release. "Yesterday, an Interstate 5 bridge north of Seattle collapsed after an oversized truck hit the structure. Thankfully, no one was killed. But the collapse of the bridge--long-rated 'functionally obsolete'--highlights the dangerous consequences of our failure to repair and invest our roads and bridges."
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That bridge was as sound as a bell right up until last March.
Betty Curry could tell her Fur Shur about large trucks hitting things ~ but, then too, so could Bill and Hillary. No need for Nancy to act innocent here.
If you want something stupid to be said bring out Nancy to say it.
Course, the positive of this....being in sequestration, and 600,000 bridges held up last week. That’s pretty good statistics....if you ask me. If you only have two bridges a year to fall....that’s mighty fine numbers.
“...failure to repair and invest our roads and bridges.”
Where’d all that stimulus money go Nancy?
Hey Nancy!
We could give you a Trillion dollars for “infrastructure”, and these crumbling bridges would NOT be touched.
In the halls of vote buying politics, maintenance and repair never make the list of things to do.
Only shiny, new projects are deemed sufficient to attract vote buying notice.
An over-sized load struck it and brought it down. Bitch wouldn`t know a roadway bridge from the ones in her feces laden mouth.
Rain gardens, bike trails, high speed rail.....
Pelosi is an ignorant sl*t.
And cannot even spell engineering let alone understand it.
I think the problem is Unions and Democrat Administration.
‘functionally obsolete’
Isn’t the same as ‘structurally deficient’ and Pelosi knows that.
Time to get off the crack Nan..You are nothing but white trash
Train crash and derailment with a bridge collapse in Missouri this morning.
Looks like one train hit another and derailed taking out an overpass pillar.
Speaking of sequester; why didn’t the IRS furlough Lois Lerner instead of a paid vacation?
I hate democrat Pelosi, democrat Obama, democrat Fienstein, democrat Schumer, democrat Reid, Democrat Durbin and the media. I hate democrats
So, the truck driver that hit the bridge is a Republican?
Why doesn’t our side have even one Pelosi politician who ties every bad result in our society to the size of the government and name names of Democrat politicians? My God this woman has the balls of a rhino and the chutzpah of one, and we don’t have anyone on our side to ditch political correctness and state the obvious. What the hell!
Or else the sequester cut out his government subsidized tape measure to check his truck’s height.
Flashback: Obama Promised His Stimulus Would Fix Crumbling Roads and Bridges
May 24, 2013
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: We had a bridge collapse, which kind of surprised me because, you know, we spent almost a trillion dollars to repair the bridges in America, and I remember the president talking about it.
Let’s go back. November 22nd, 2008. This is after the election. This is his weekly YouTube address. He wasn’t president yet, but he was president-elect. And he’s talking about his stimulus plan. This is leading up to the stimulus, which he would put in place a few months later.
OBAMA: There will be a two-year nationwide effort to jump-start job creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy. We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges.
RUSH: How’s that working out? Now, the reason I’m playing this is because they’re gonna try to blame Bush for this before the day’s over, if they’re not already. Well, they’ll find a way. Obama’s not gonna take responsibility for this. The stimulus was supposed to repair the roads and bridges. I know they blame Bush. That’s why I’m saying they’ll blame him for this one. They blamed Bush for the Minneapolis bridge collapse. So this is the day that Obama signed the stimulus. This February 17th, 2009, he was in Denver at the Museum of Nature and Science.
It is up to us to tie this vermin to DeathCare!
If a Republican makes asinine and outrageous statements s/he will be held up to well deserved ridicule. When a Democrat does it, it's insight and brilliance.
We did give a trillion dollars for infrastructure...thats precisely what the Stimulus was supposed to be for. But Barry pissed it away on caulking people’s houses.
The last I heard the sequester was Obama's idea and he signed off on it.
Who was President the last 4 1/2 years and why didn't they do something about America's crumbling bridges?
Finally, I think Nancy missed the connection between global climate change and the failure of this bridge.
Pelosi’s comment is yet another example of the demodummies stupidity. Where the hell did she come from and how did she get to where she is being that stupid?
"I'm certainly disappointed that he would do something of this nature," said Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, a Democrat who displays Obama's portrait on his office wall. "As long as you're doing something to threaten my aviation industry ... I'll continue to speak out against it."
Democrats loves them some infrastructure, or at least they love to demagog it.
All the republicans have to do is compile a list of things transportation money is siphoned off to pay for before we even get around to wasting money on bike paths, high speed rail, public transportation etc.
A few years back, Carl Levin was seeking millions out of the highway fund to save Tiger Stadium in Detroit. His justification was to be a bus stop out front.
We are unable to build roads, maintain bridges and pay Air Traffic Controllers. After all extended vacations for Micelle andd the girls and flog outtings for the pretzel dent are more important.
SARK OFF!
Look, mushmouth (Coupe Deval Patrick) wants to “invest” over a billion dollars in high speed rail between New Bedford and Boston. The only ones who will benefit are the contractors and unions. And politicians, who will wallow in baksheesh.
Right now the MBTA (Boston transit system) runs annual deficits in the hundreds of millions. Privatize it and service will better and cheaper. But civil service unions will no longer be at the beck and call of the Democratic Party.
The people Mover in Detroit is 7% rider funded meaning the rest is paid by taxpayers in one form or another. From what I’ve read, 25% rider funding is considered successful for most public transportation systems.
We’re also paying for sensors in parking lots that work with phone apps that people use to find parking spaces. If I’m not mistaken, that started in San Fransisco before being expanded to other cities.
The city near me just scammed another hundred grand out of transportation money to repave a mile of bike trail through the hood that has proven to be nothing more than a hangout for hookers, pimps, crack heads, thieves and child molesters.
He is a Canadian from Alberta.
No, Nancy Pelosi! The Democrats throw money away maybe in the $ Trillions on foreign aid, to cronies who soon go bankrupt, to union thugs from GM, to support dubious and unproductive Federal agencies, and more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Nancy Pelosi herself could have paid for that bridge by skipping a couple of boondoggle trips for herself and her family.
And then she blames the Republicans? Just what is she talking about?!!
But! But! But!
The bridge shrank because of the sequester!
The only reason the democrats were so opposed to the new Detroit bridge was the fact that Canada is paying for it and they won’t have control of the money. (The AFP and tea partiers were opposed but quietly dropped their opposition as the facts came out)
Jon Stewart had a funny segement about it a couple years ago.
http://www.freep.com/article/20130110/ENT03/130110036/daily-show-jon-stewart-bridge-debate
Fair enough Nancy. Show me the plan where that particular bridge was planned to be inspected and repaired, and then show me the budget line item pertaining to that, that was cut.
” Bitch wouldn`t know a roadway bridge from the ones in her feces laden mouth.”
Nancy once again proves the inverse relationship between cup and brain size!
Another success story, in other words.
>>Where’d all that stimulus money go Nancy?<<
Don’t expect any of the Whigs to bring this up. Without being aware of it, we have become a totalitarian country. There is one party rule, a state controlled media, nationalized industries and a planned economy falling apart. Hyperinflation and we are Zimbabwe.
meanwhile, didn’t obama just give $50mill to kenya???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3021866/posts
“All the republicans have to do is compile a list of things transportation money is siphoned off to pay for before we even get around to wasting money on bike paths, high speed rail, public transportation etc.”
I agree with your comment and comments of other FRiends on this thread. Here’s an example that burns my biscuits (only 1 of many), because instead of taking me 1/2 hr to get home from work, it’s taking me up to 1-1/2 hours sitting in traffic, wasting gas and my time (note that there was already an area striped off for bike path on the west side of the road and I frequently saw people walking, walking their dogs or riding their bikes on it; and, that the road is supposed to have a detour going south until October - they started closing it off in Mar or Apr).
For those not familiar with the area, Bellevue is a suburb (across Lake Washington to the east) of Seattle. This area is along Lake Sammamish (a lake on the ‘Eastside’). Please also note, that, based on the below, it looks like this $8.3M is only the 1st part of 5 1-mile projects (when I’ve been through there - going north, it doesn’t seem like what they’re working on is 1-mile, I’ll have to clock it next time):
Background
The West Lake Sammamish Parkway Project will enhance safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers by providing a multi-use trail along the west side of the arterial, and it will restore the existing pavement while maintaining the distinct character of the area. The proposed construction plan breaks the roadway into five approximately mile-long segments.
The first segment of the project is located between Interstate 90 and Southeast 34th Street. The city began construction of Phase 1 in early 2013. The scope of work includes the construction of a 10-foot wide multi-use path on the west side of the street, a four-foot shoulder on the east side, and two general-purpose travel lanes (one northbound and one southbound).
Here’s what I could find for costs – looks like $8.3 million for this phase.
http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/projectsmap/PublicGridView.aspx?Criteria=ELH
There’s a drawing on the site. The below says Phase 1 - as mentioned above, it appears that this is the 1st of 5 1-mile projects. If this is the case, then the total cost will be over $40M - wonder what they could have done to re-inforce/fix that bridge with that money.
http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/west_lk_samm_prkwy.htm
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