AARGGHHH...Then let's go through every single piece of pork that any politician, Dem or Rep, puts into a bill. I'm all for that. If it was a showing all the projects that got put into that bill that shouldn't, that's fine. But it specifically targete4d this bridge and made it sound like it was a bridge that was not needed. There is a four lane bridge that does connect Bullhead with Laughlin, but it's gridlocked most of the time. Mohave County is the largest growing Country in the Country. They took the cameras at a time when the bridge was relatively empty just to make the case that this new bridge was not necessary. I don't like that kind of reporting from any news network, I don't care who it winds up benefiting or hurting. It does nobody any good and we're left to pick up the pieces.
Fine with me. However, because lots of politicians indulge in pork, you act that Reid is therefore absolved of doing such - even though he hectored the GOP about ethics in the campaign last year.
So what if its gridlocked? Live with a little *&&^%#$$%^&^5 inconvenience, willya? If this IS the fastest growing county then get used to the ideas of gridlock and traffic jams.
I have to sit on the Liberty bridge and then the d*mn tubes for 45 minutes during rush hour sometimes.
Welcome to the real world, my friend.
Supposedly the camera was there during "rush hour" and it did show a nearly empty bridge.
Here in NM some of us are fighting the same battle of our tax dollars being spent unwisely -- Bill Richardson is spending 390 million plus for a railroad to do what the adjacent interstate does. The interstate is clogged at times but instead of widening the four-lane highway built in the 1960's with a speed limit of 65-75 mph, he's spending big bucks for the RR that maybe a couple of thousand or so will use each day and they still have to transfer to buses to get to their destination and will take longer than driving by car, even with "gridlock". Special projects for special people paid for by all of us.
If you want to advance the debate, take your digital camera out there today and take pictures showing the gridlock, to prove that the Hannity show filmed it at a "bad time".
Are you suggesting you have the only bridge that consist of gridlock?
The complete highway system in America is deteriorating. Many of the bridge's on the intestate highway have been deemed unsafe.
The money needed for these repairs can't seem to get through congress, why?/because individual congressmen can't get their name attached to the bill.
The congress critters must have the name recognition to assure their reelection.