Utterly Predictable Democrats Take Advantage of Train Crash Tragedy

RUSH: Somebody asked me this morning, it was Mr. Snerdley. Mr. Snerdley came in today, and said, "Does it ever get boring?" And I said, "What are you talking about?" "Everything you mention, everything you predict, when it comes to the Democrats, comes true!" I said, "What are you talking about?" "This Amtrak stuff, everything you told us yesterday, the Democrats are doing, infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, no matter what else." No, it never gets boring.

You know, I used to ask professional golfers that, "Does it ever get boring hitting it straight every time?" They said, "Never." "Does it ever get boring the ball going where you want it to go?" "Never." I said, "Really?" I would never know on the golf course, but I know about this, and, folks, it never gets boring being able to predict. It gets frustrating that it always works.

So we have a tragedy. We have a down-to-earth tragedy. We have a train derailing. We've got people dead. We've got hundreds of people injured, and the first thing the Democrat Party sees is an opportunity. They want you to see, or want you to think that they are the ones that see tragedy and that have the compassion necessary to deal with it. They don't see the tragedy.

They see the opportunity. It's the Republicans that see the tragedy and get caught flat-footed dealing with it that way. It's amazing. Within minutes of this train derailment you just knew the word "infrastructure" was gonna be bandied about all over the place, and it was.

The word "infrastructure" was halfway around the world before anybody found out that infrastructure had nothing to do with this, that it was a driver, an engineer, who now says he doesn't remember, who was doing twice the choo-choo train's speed limit at the turn. So now it's infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, and the low-information voters, what do they end up knowing?

Well, to find out you gotta go to Yahoo News, turn on CNN, or whatever it is, Facebook, whatever they get their news, and they're going to once again hear that a terrible accident happened because the Republicans are chintzy, the Republicans are cheap, the Republicans don't care about people. So, no, it doesn't get boring being able to predict it, but it gets frustrating that the Democrats get away with this all the time.

RUSH: It's the same old, same old. It's the same old story. It's the same old tactic. It's the same pattern repeated time and time and time again, and the low-information voter's conclusion once again is that the Republicans are cheapskates. They're chintzy. They only care about the rich. They don't care about the poor, they don't care about the middle class, and they don't care if people die.

Now, the Republicans did push back on the floor of the House. They had some serious arguments that took place on that. We have the audio sound bites to back all of this up. Oh, by the way, did you know -- and I'm not saying there's any big deal about this, mind you. Did you know that the engineer, the Amtrak engineer, was a same-sex marriage advocate? (interruption) You didn't know that? (interruption) Well, I'm not making a big deal of it.

That's not my point, to say that the Amtrak engineer was an advocate for gay marriage. I'm not trying to make a big deal out of that. (interruption) If he was a Tea Party supporter, can you imagine? That would be the reason for everything. If he was a Tea Party supporter, you know what they would say? "Well, it all makes sense now! He was reading blogs or he was reading the latest Tea Party literature! He was all excited about taking it to Obama and embarrassing the Democrats, and he took his eyes off the tracks."

But gay marriage activist? What could he have been doing instead of watching tracks? I mean, if we're gonna play this the way the media...? I mean, if the guy were a Tea Party activist, that's all you would say know about him, right? (interruption) Can we agree on this? If he was a Tea Party activist, if he listened to talk radio, that's all we would know about the guy, and it would be the reason why he was guilty.

And it might even overcome the idea that there wasn't enough spending on infrastructure. But he wasn't Tea Party; he wasn't a radio talk show fan. He was and is a supporter of gay marriage. So if we played the game the way they do, what would we speculate the engineer was doing instead of watching the tracks, as an advocate for gay marriage? (interruption) Same-sex mar...? (interruption) What would you think you might be doing? (interruption) Hmm? (interruption) "Entertaining himself" how? (interruption) Specifically, sir, what are you referring to when you say...?

RUSH: Now, back to the Amtrak derailment here. I have some audio sound bites on this that I want you to hear. But let me go through some things here, because the very first thing that happens... Look at the New York Times headline: "One Day After Wreck, Increased Funding for Amtrak Fails in a House Panel." You can't have any more purposeful bias in a news story and headline than that: "One Day After Wreck, Increased Funding for Amtrak Fails in a House Panel"?

So idiots that read the New York Times are supposed to conclude that the derailment happened because the Republicans are cheap, and don't care about people and don't like trains. "That's right, the Republicans don't like trains. You know why? Because trains are big in Europe, and the Democrats love Europe, and leftists love Europe. That means leftists love trains, and Republicans hate Europe, and Republicans hate leftists, and Republicans hate socialists, and socialists love trains, so Republicans hate trains."

I mean, that's how it goes. That's the line of thought. That is the message for your average Democrat Party base voter and low-information voter. But let's review, shall we? Let's plug some reality into all this. The over $800 billion stimulus bill back in 2009 was an infrastructure bill (so we were told) to repair roads, bridges, schools, and all that. It turns out to be as big a lie as Obamacare. The stimulus bill wasn't about infrastructure any more than Obamacare is about affordable health insurance.

Both the stimulus bill and Obamacare are executive fraud, pure and simple. More money has been misdirected and misspent in Obamacare and the stimulus bill than we can comprehend. But the point is, you can never fully fund fraud. You can never satisfy con men. And fraud is what we have been subjected to all too often from our government. There's way too much, way too often, and you cannot fully fund it. Fraud is never, ever, totally paid for.

I want to finish my train of thought on all of this fraud that is occurring to the American people. It didn't start with Obama, and I don't want anybody to think that that's what I believe. Fraud, at the highest levels of US government, has been going on for a while. It would be hard, actually, to peg when it began.

Washington is where every dollar in this country goes, to then be disbursed. There's a reason so many people want to live in Washington. If you want money, that's where it is; that's where it's allocated; that's where it's taxed; that's where it's collected; that's where it's banked; that's where it is spent.

So it's just obvious that people would go there. When there's a big pile of money around and all you have to do is just maybe reach your fist out and grab some of it, it's very tempting. But the degree and the level of fraud and deceit in the past six and a half years is so bad and so deep that it's the reason we have the Tea Party. The degree of fraud, the irresponsible spending and money that we don't have, has millions of Americans legitimately concerned for the future of the country, particularly in terms of economic opportunity for their kids and grandkids, because people instinctively know.

So here comes Obama in 2009, his first couple of months in office, loving the fact that the economy's in bad shape, blame it on Bush, blame it on Iraq, just continue that theme and say, "You know what? I'm gonna come out here, I'm gonna step on the gas and I'm gonna get this economy kicking again. I'm gonna get it churning. We're gonna speed back that recovery. I want $800 billion to stimulate this economy." And the low-information crowd, "Yay," new president can do anything he wants.

They love him. Whatever they want him to be is who he is. So they're gonna jump-start the economy and he adds to it by telling and promising people he's gonna rebuild all these roads and bridges and schools, and it's gonna be utopia, man, it's gonna be so cool. Finally somebody knows what to do. Nobody stops to think that there is no way to pump $800 billion of found money that's not already being used into the economy, because we're already, at that point, $12 trillion in debt.

Where do you get the $800 billion that you're gonna pump into the economy, for example? It's not as though there's $800 billion laying around that isn't being used. It's not as though there's $800 billion or a trillion or $500 million or a quarter, there's not that money laying around idle that you can just take it and put it in a syringe and inject it into the economy and massively grow it. That's not how it happens. Where does the government get the money?

They have to take it in the form of taxes or borrowing. They take the money from the economy that they're gonna stimulate. It simply was mathematically economically impossible to stimulate the federal economy the way they did it. The way they did it was to take $800 million out of it and then put it back in. But it was worse than that. Because the money didn't go to infrastructure. It didn't go to roads and bridges and schools and all that. It went to union employees so that they would not lose be their jobs, so that their dues would continue to be paid and circuitously end up back in campaign coffers of Democrats.

It was total fraud, just like Obamacare. The stimulus bill was not about infrastructure any more than Obamacare is about affordable health insurance. As I said before the break, you cannot fully fund fraud. You can never satisfy con men. Look, when Elizabeth Warren said this, the Democrats stood up and cheered and Obama even picked up on it. The Democrats tell us we didn't build our businesses, that they did.

They tell us that we did not raise our families. They did. A village did. You didn't achieve anything on your own. You got nothing to brag about. You got nothing to feel good about. Your success wouldn't have happened without us, the Democrats. Your kids turn out the way they are because of us, because of all of our education and our preschool and kindergarten, all that stuff, Head Start. We are raising your kids, the village, you don't know how to do it. Hillary wrote the book about it. They tells us that we don't care about our kids. That's why they have to take over. Yet look at the crud Michelle Obama decides to feed your kids at what is called lunch in the public schools. Her husband has tried to take away school choice from those who need it most.

So you didn't build your business; they did. You didn't raise your families. No, no. The village did, the Democrat Party, the American left, they know how, they care more. You're not even any good at feeding your kids. Michelle Obama had to take that over. And look at it. They tell us we don't care enough about infrastructure, but we handed them $800 billion, when they assured us they were gonna rebuild all these things.

Even after it was learned that the train was going twice the speed limit, didn't matter. Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, Republicans are cheap, accident because of Republicans not caring about average people. Republicans only care about the rich. Average people died, Republicans don't care. We Democrats do. Well, where were all of the speed reduction systems? There's supposed to be some. But do you know the national transportation safety board has given Amtrak until the end of the year to install them all. They weren't installed yet.

At some point there will be speed arrest devices on these tracks, but they're not there yet. Not in time. Who's running the show here? Who's in charge of all this infrastructure spending? Who's in charge of fixing roads, bridges, schools? Who has been in charge of everything for the past seven years? And yet magically and mysteriously, it's always the Republicans' fault.

When normal people yesterday, average, ordinary, the people that make this country work, when they were mourning the dead, when they were seriously worried about the accident and the damage and the injuries, the Democrats were out celebrating a crisis while the bodies were still scattered across an accident site.

The Democrats saw the dead bodies, they saw the injured, they saw the mangled wreckage, and what did they see? They saw an opportunity to advance their agenda. They saw an opportunity to expand government. They saw an opportunity to once again defame conservatives and Republicans. They misstated facts, such as dilapidated infrastructure was the cause of the derailment. They did that to get more guilt money to launder for their political party.

But that's the MO, folks, that's the MO of the Democrat Party. This is how Democrats work. Clinton Crime Family Foundation is the stimulus bill, is Obamacare, it's a lie packaged as compassion.

I’ve “read” that the train was going over 100MPH, but does anyone have a rock-solid link to that information which is verified?

I’m unconvinced that a typical locomotive on that line can physically reach that speed on a normal grade of track. Though I could just be unaware of the potential.

The electric locomotives purchased by Amtrak can go up to 150 mph. If the track and roadbed were up to European high speed standards, they could go even faster.

What a mell of a hess.

Logic and popular sensation are at utter odds here.

5 posted on 05/14/2015 3:20:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)

Neighboring NJ has already made the devastating choice (at the behest of Democrats): Fixing infrastructure would drain funds from the pockets of government employees - so the infrastructure just crumbles. I know this wasn’t infrastructure-related (from my understanding), but if Dems thibk they can capitalize on this they should look at what has already happened in NJ amd NYC: They can’t have guns AND butter.

Any additional spending (at least in NJ) will mean reducing the outrageous salaries, health benefits, and retirement packages of the public employees.

6 posted on 05/14/2015 3:29:59 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)

"Amtrak's Acela Express trains now travel up to 150 miles per hour on a short stretch in New England, but the top speed between New York and Washington is 135 miles an hour."

The Northeast Regional trains (like train 188) are slower with more stops but still get to speeds over 100 between Washington New York. It's all welded rail with concrete ties and no grade crossings.

Very high tech, but the locomotive engineer still needs to pay attention to his job. I'd guess the guy forgot about the curve and thought he was already on the straight track.

7 posted on 05/14/2015 3:52:28 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)

What prevents higher speeds in Maryland and New Jersey is caternary wire installed in 1933 to 1935. Overhead caternary technology has advanced a lot in the past 80 years, but installing a new overhead system would cost billions. The trains could easily run at 150 mph on those straightaways with new caternary installation.

There are speed limit signs on the right-of-way, and the engineers are issued a booklet with the speed limits over each block on the Corridor. But you're right than the engineer needs to pay attention to what he is doing.

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