Posted on 05/14/2015 4:12:40 PM PDT by McGruff
House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that this week's fatal Amtrak crash wasn't caused by a lack of federal funds and mocked a reporter for even asking about it.
"Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?" he said at a news conference as a reporter started to ask about Democratic complaints that the government shortchanges the railroad.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
“Obviously it’s not about funding. The train was going twice the speed limit,” Boehner said.
The left can’t admit that was the cause, would go against their “Blame Republican” agenda which they pushed from the moment this happened..meanwhile the left is worried that more info will be found out about the Engineer since he was one of them
That was also my first question.
It WAS a stupid, Lib, Gotcha question, and Boner was correct in chewing out the reporter.
What’s so stupid. The liberals full well know it was caused by global warming. Or Bush.
yup to bad he has to return them or probably it.
That's really a Halperin question. Mock 2 liberal birds with 1 stone.
A perfectly normal question for leftist operatives.
The Chamber of Commies doesn’t care about this so he is free to speak. Nothing like being bought and sold.
It also might have been funny if he had said “Obama and the democrats had 800 billion dollars for infrastructure spending and full control of the government from 2008 to 2010. I guess too much went into defunct solar panel companies and nothing made it to Amtrak.”
A very, very short term loan.
Social injustice, racial inequality, and violent, patriarchial histories in our country are like the three rails that took down this steam locomotive. The two branches of government, the Schools branch and the Commercial branch that we all learn about in the schools, are like the things up in the air where the sparks come from, and when the sparks come down it is like when Harriet Tubman refused to sit on the part of the train where the other people were supposed to sit, and that is what will be leading to the change that will make our country great. When you hear the “choo, choo, choo,” like Martin Luther King used to hear when he was on that ride from Selma, you will know as Gandhi said “THAT TRAIN IS ‘A” COMIN’” which is the way we say, where I am from that in the words of Stevie Ray Vaughan and other black pioneer blues musicians “A CHANGE IS ‘A COMIN,” which means, essentially, that things are going to change.
They still have to push for the funding (translation: Union jobs funneling dues directly to the Democratic Party).
Here in NJ there were plans to build a third tunnel under the Hudson River to NYC; as the economy collapsed and jobs left NYC permanently, questions about the need for the tunnel itself arose - and it was determined that there was no need. The left was reduced to (seriously) claiming that it was needed because people might want to get to a Broadway show...
Kudos to Governor Christie for ending that travesty; neither NJ or NY (or the federal government, for that matter) have the money for these makework projects. They can’t even fix the existing infrastructure; no need to affix another albatross around the taxpayers’ necks...
This should be said loud and often, every day.
If there has been an accounting of that $800BILLION, or had anyone even demand an accounting of it, I am not aware of it.
This "loyal opposition" has been negligent to the level of criminal fiduciary failure.
Not quite accurate. There was, and is, a need. However, the proposed tunnel would have stub-ended in a newer, deeper level of Penn Station without connecting with anything to the east, to include Sunnyside Yard and the rest of the network. The tunnel was too expensive to be built strictly for New Jersey Transit's trains, which was what was suggested.
Christie was right to kill it. More recent plans are looking at a third tube under the Hudson that will go into that deeper level of Penn Station, but connect with a future tube that will be built out of Grand Central. If they can make that idea work, that's a project that would be of actual use due to increased connectivity.
There is no need if proponents are arguing for people who want to see a Broadway show; friends that work in the city have commented on how many fewer people are on the existing trains as it is. Over a dozen years ago countless lives were saved on 9/11 by the number of vacancies in the World Trade Center (reducing congestion on the stairwells); a major reason for the delay in rebuilding was the lack of demand for office space in NYC. Many businesses today keep a NYC PO box and little else. In fact, the backup requirements after 9/11 were so burdensome that rather than maintain two sites many miles apart some companies just opted to leave altogether...
The scope of DeBlasio’s victory serves as a good indication of how far NYC has fallen over the past years; now we watch a Dem mayor fight a Dem governor for money to prop it all up.
Funny the AP doesn’t mention the train engineer once. The train was magically going 106mph at the curve all by itself.
Notice the tone of how this is written - as though it is a perfectly valid narrative and this stubborn Republican politician just doesn't want to acknowledge it.
Yeah, sure - if only we had spent more money, this train would not have been speeding down the tracks - the speed of the train is dictated by how much more money we spend.
Kind of like a wet dream in the youthful - too much pent up energy and one gets "testy" to relieve it - automatic and unconscious response....
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