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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.
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