Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

A Bridge Too Farcical
Steyn Online ^ | 16 Nov 2021 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/16/2021 2:27:05 PM PST by Rummyfan

Yesterday, thanks to sufficient support from reach-across-the-aisle Republicans (send money now to SendMoneyNow.com), Joe Biden signed into law his 37.9 gazillion-dollar "infrastructure" bill. There will be no infrastructure arising from the infrastructure bill: it is impossible to imagine today's America building a new dam, never mind a Chinese bullet train or the artificial islands supporting the Øresund Bridge. So instead "infrastructure" has been redefined to mean more transgendered permit-deniers on the wetlands committee.

To underline the new meaninglessness, Joe Biden will today be snarling traffic for miles around in my own New Hampshire county to mumble and prompter-squint next to a bridge over the Pemigewasset in Woodstock. The bridge has been on the state's "red list" for eight years. Biden is not opening a new bridge, but announcing that, under his infrastructure plan, the bridge will be eligible to be on some new federal list for another eight years.

This is Potemkin bridge work for Potemkin government. As I said yesterday, everything that matters is going on elsewhere.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers

1 posted on 11/16/2021 2:27:05 PM PST by Rummyfan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

These are the Assistant Democrats that made all of this possible

Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)

Plus these Assistant Democrats in the House: Van Drew, Katko, Bacon, YoungAK, Upton, Kinzinger, SmithNJ, Fitzpatrick, Reed, Gabarino, GonzalezOH, McKinley.

The Democrats needed GOP help and they got it.

We will never Make America Great Again by re-electing Assistant Democrats.


2 posted on 11/16/2021 2:33:44 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

later


3 posted on 11/16/2021 2:34:07 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan
...Pemigewasset in Woodstock. The bridge has been on the state's "red list" for eight years...

The motorists of this country, on top of all the state, local (and Federal), taxes that they pay, also pay billions in tolls, gasoline taxes, registration fees, fines, and highway mileage taxes. These taxes were designed to maintain the local highways and bridges. If I were a local politician, I would be ashamed if someone like Biden came into my town to highlight my absolute failure to do one of my primary functions. Why are not the bridges and roads properly and timely maintained? Because the doofuses are too busy using the money on their idiotic woke agenda. Crumbling roads and bridges are a prima facie indictment of the competency of the local officials. Instead they all stand there, in their feckless idiocy and praise the president and his pork filled infrastructure bill.

4 posted on 11/16/2021 3:11:52 PM PST by fhayek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fhayek

I trust the young voters realize they will be paying for the debt and the carrying costs for the debt for the rest of their lives.


5 posted on 11/16/2021 3:19:16 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

What is he talking about? Building bridges in 2018?


6 posted on 11/16/2021 3:39:29 PM PST by NavyShoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

Welcome to BIDENZUELA!

7 posted on 11/16/2021 5:34:14 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Want to make America great again. Stop talking about government reform. Thanks: precisionshootist)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fhayek
Why are not the bridges and roads properly and timely maintained? Because the doofuses are too busy using the money on their idiotic woke agenda.

They are busy fighting climate change. Ha!

8 posted on 11/16/2021 6:38:31 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson