Eat it, you bunch of low-life buffoons!
Are the Dems freakin serious..the Dems in Washington State used stimulus money to do research on ANT FARMS and video games for elderly people..its THEIR fault the bridge was not fixed..they were told it needed to be fixed but they refused to..its not up to the GOP to tell the Dems what to do with the money..if they want to waste it on ant farms and video games that’s not their problem
If this sleazebag McDermott wants this done so badly, why don’t he and his fellow ‘RAT maggots on Capitol Hill unass some of their OWN MONEY and get it done? They could also do some car washes and bake sales. I’m getting tired of these freakin’ communists using MY TAX DOLLARS to get themselves elected all of the time.
Someone needs to throw this maggot under the bus.
Democrats tossing vital infrastructure overboard for bike paths, high speed rail, public transportation, and union vote buying scams.
“Infrastructure investment” is code for “give money to the labor unions.”
Tell McDermott that all the money for that bridge was given to Egypt care of John Kerry
a 2% budget cut has undermined the infrastructure in 3 months to the point of collapse??
excuse me?!
how about we investigate where all the money that was spent to keep those bridges in good repair went... because it sure didn’t go to upkeep the bridge
Must have been a Republican truck...
Typical Democrat lies. Billions upon billions of state and federal dollars have been spent on infrastructure and will continue to be spent. If this bridge didn’t get fixed it wasn’t for lack of funds it was negligence on behalf of bureaucrats.
methinks this old saw may be wearing thin (to maybe mix a metaphor)
I guess the bridge wasn’t shovel-ready.
No doubt if an earthquake swallows Washington D.C., it’ll be asserted by America’s Leftist propagandists - of whom there are countless - that it’s the fault of the Republicans.
In that case, however, they should award medals or trophies or something.
McDermott should be in prison.
If a truck would have hit it 40 years ago, it still would have collapsed. It is just amazing how dishonest the Democrats are. It does need replacing but it is not anything like the collapse in Minnesota, and the collapse had nothing to do with its age.
Yet, Democrats like Oregon’s Governor Kitzhaber hold bridges hostage to light rail. He is who famously says “No light rail, no bridge” in replacing the aging spans across the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon.
Hundreds of billions have been diverted to build light rail lines while bridges were left to deteriorate.
Stop holding bridge safety hostage to light rail
A truck hit the side of the bridge. There were two trucks. One a wide-load with a pilot car in front but none in back. Another truck was passing the truck and cause the truck in the right lane to veer to the right. That bridge structure is not square but rounded on the sides. The truck in the right lane hit the top of the structure causing the collapse.
Yes, because we’ve never spent anything on infrastructure in this country. Ever.
Of course, the clowns on MSNBC will pick this up and run with it.
What happened to the nearly $1 Trillion we threw at “shovel ready projects?”
To make a case for poor infrastructure because of the Skagit River Bridge collapse is baloney. This bridge collapsed because of a over sized truck. Someone failed to determine if that over sized truck could fit under the overhead support structure. Trucks are going through that bridge at 70+ mile per hour. When that truck hit the upper support structure at the speed I think it did, the bridge will collapse even if it was a brand new bridge.
I can hear the Crats blaming the Republicans for the bridge collapse. The bridge collapse was a result of bad measurements. Whoever did the measurements should lose their job, not Republicans.
Tax dollars for construction labor costs must be spent at Union Scale.
In many cases that cost per hour is triple the cost of normal workers. For example a forklift operator on a highway project in LA gets $58.00 per hour.
This is about unions not saftey.