In yet another round of the "blame Bush for everything" crowd, the connection is being made again and again and again that Bush is to blame for the bridge collapse in Minnesota, earlier this week. In one day I saw the following posted on Huffingtonpost.com and a few other blogs (I apologize for the spelling errors and grammar issues, but they are exact reprints of original comments):
Why do we need terrorists when we have Republicans destroying our own infastructure?
Why DO republicons HATE America SO much???
The Administration, and other corporists do not care for America.
IMPEACH BUSH!
We spend billions of dollars in Iraq, we could just spend that money here and fix ALL our infastructure in a few months.
Then, I read this article from the Associated Press, which states that this bridge has been getting poor reviews since 1990. Funny, I don't see Clinton mentioned anywhere in cyberspace. Instead the new tactic was to talk about how Republicans drained all the surplus money from when Democrats were in charge.
I also found this fatigue evaluation from March of 2001, a mere three months after Bush took office. The bridge had fatigue cracking back then, and was deemed "structurally deficient". The repairs done in the 1990's did not include an overhaul of the bridge, rather, repair of cracks and corrosion. Yet again, nowhere do we hear about the sins of a prior administration. And think about how much could have been done with all that "Democrat surplus"! Now remember, when Clinton took over from Bush I, the calls for his mistakes in Somalia were due to the prior administrations involvement. Yet, the same cannot be asserted here? Hmmmmm . . .
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Attacking concerned citizens who Comment on one of the most popular blogs on the Internet may not be a good business model?
Or more about venting and expressing frustration if one learns how to read what is happening there.
Your target is the largest out-patient clinic in the world and damn proud of it!
Your point about the bridge being "structurally deficient" when Bush/Cheney took office is well made.
Yet, if you read the responsibility and authority under the DOT, part of the Executive Branch, NOTHING WAS DONE in six and half years by the governing body with oversight responsibility for the Interstate Highway System. They knew, the bridge collapsed when instead they could have just done their jobs and perhaps prevented this black eye.
The DOT NEVER contacted Minnesota and exerted their authority. Is benign neglect a form of negligence?
Ask the citizens of Minneapolis?
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