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 $1.4 billion Congress appropriated in 2015.
Democrats argued Wednesday the maneuver exposed Republican insensitivity towards Tuesday night’s accident.
“Last night, we failed them,” Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said of Train 188’s victims.
“We failed to invest in their safety,” he said. “We failed to make their safety our priority.”
“It defies the interests of the American people,” he added.
Republicans countered that Democrats were politicizing a tragedy without fully understanding its cause.
“I was disappointed to hear my colleague talk about the funding for Amtrak and to suggest that because we haven’t funded it, that’s what caused the accident, when you have no idea what caused the accident,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) of Israel’s remarks.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators announced Wednesday that Train 188’s engineer had tried using its emergency brakes.
That measure failed, the agency argued, given the train was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour.
The Federal Railroad Administration lists the speed limit for the section of track where the crash occurred as 50 miles per hour.
Tuesday’s derailment killed seven passengers and wounded at least 140 more.
(all my posts in this thread have a sarc tag)
@#$@#$ing worthess two cent whore. MAYBe if obama’s sons and daughters didn’t mooch so much, there would be plenty of money for other things.
And she trashed Sonny all those years then cried like a baby when he died.
Nice son/daughter/thing you got there.
She’s an idiot.
Cher is an Indian so she would know.
A plastic whore.
thats being kind.....
Hank has a look all his own.....
Yes, and don't forget that Jerry Brown wants CA to fund a "high speed" train in the California desert.
Define "high speed" Cher.
This looks less like a republican problem and more of a what the hell are you thinking DEMOCRAT problem.
AMTRAK has always lost money. Ask yourself why that is Cher.
It's been around since 1971. Through democrat and republican administrations.
I remember Cher's big hits of the 1970s. Dark Lady was one. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves was another.
Sometimes I'm surprised to realize she is still alive. I remember she used to show her belly button on the TV, back when it was controversial to do so. Sonny Bono always seemed like an OK guy but he ended up skiing into a tree, which did not end too well for him.
Back in the early 1990s, I remember Cher being on what used to be called the Larry King show, practically begging Ross Perot to run for president and that the country "needed" him.
She was always a bit on the strange side. A better singer than Barbara Streisand. But put the two of them together and you have a woman that might just drive me to drink.
The brownshirting moon howling is up again. we are getting Fergusoned. It is not funding but the rider speeding
2nd of all you moron, if liberals hadn't wasted 10’s of trillions on the failed “war on poverty” there would be tons of money for infrastructure.
Now go crawl back into your hole you washed up loser.
I think we are moving to krystal nacht here...
Please Mister Amtrak..DO if for the CHildren..Do it For Chaz!!
Sonny was obviously the brains behind Sonny and Cher.
If he was a republican or conservative the media would be highlighting that aspect of his life. So his homosexual activism is fair game.
The national disgrace of liberals and the media began at the Paul Wellstone funeral.
Considering all the plastic surgery Cher has had...
The night of the long knives is more appropriate.
>>Who is Cher?<<
Some old skank that had one hit in the 60s and a few in the 70s.
Married to some short ski-bum who didn’t watch out for that tree.
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