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A Shameless Train Of Thought - Dems Exploit Amtreak Crash
American Thinker ^ | May 20, 2015 | Daniel John Sobieski

Posted on 05/20/2015 3:24:47 PM PDT by raptor22

Former White House Chief of Staff and currently mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, whose city is rushing to be the next Detroit after decades of big government excesses, once said that a crisis was a terrible thing to waste since it allows you to get things done you couldn’t get done in a saner atmosphere. The Amtrak derailment outside Philadelphia is the latest case in point.

Never mind that the Antrak train that crashed outside Philadelphia, killing seven, was being driven at 106 miles per hour around a curve that was designed for 50 or that the “positive train control” system (PTC) that would have overridden the operator to brake the train was in the pipeline to be installed. According to Democrats who believe money solves everything and that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was probably a Republican, it’s the fault of the Republicans.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Illinois; US: Michigan; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: amthinker; amtrak; amtreak; chicago; detroit; illinois; infrastructure; michigan; pennsylvania; philadelphia; rahmemanuel; railsafety

1 posted on 05/20/2015 3:24:47 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

AMTRAK VS. OIL TRAINS PING


2 posted on 05/20/2015 3:25:27 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: raptor22

Chris Mathews said that the GOP treats trains like they treat Hispanics. Something along the lines of ignoring and not spending enough on both trains and Hispanics . not sure where he comes up with such comparisons.


3 posted on 05/20/2015 3:31:55 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: raptor22

Amtreak?


4 posted on 05/20/2015 3:35:31 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: raptor22

I get the impression that all the MSM are looking for and trying to set up an out for this newbie engineer that looks like a kid and we all know kids think texting misshaps won’t slam them!!


5 posted on 05/20/2015 3:49:32 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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AMTRAK VS. OIL TRAINS PING


6 posted on 05/20/2015 3:51:26 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

So, why isn’t Matthews accused of “racism” for equating Hispanics with a hopeless loser like Amtrak?


7 posted on 05/20/2015 3:52:17 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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AMTRAK VS. OIL TRAINS PING


8 posted on 05/20/2015 4:37:12 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Cause he’s a leftard. Only whites can be racist and only if they’re conservative or otherwise in disfavor.


9 posted on 05/20/2015 5:02:24 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: raptor22
According to Democrats who believe OTHER PEOPLE's money solves everything...

There. Fixed
10 posted on 05/20/2015 6:24:22 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; raptor22

>>>>Chris Mathews said that the GOP treats trains like they treat Hispanics. Something along the lines of ignoring and not spending enough on both trains and Hispanics .<<<<

So, lets “spend” more on Hispanics by giving the illegal ones surplus guns the government doesn’t want Americans to have; then, put them on trains back to where they came from to take care of their problems at home.


11 posted on 05/20/2015 6:26:40 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: CGASMIA68
the great deafening silence form the federales about this crash is telling....

I think they know that there were no mechanical problems, no weather issues, no projectiles able to force a huge train to speed up, and no terrorists at the controls....

I think they know that the little train engineer was at fault...period...

granted, he could have been mixed up, lost track of the time, maybe he fell asleep....I don't think this was intentional...

or, he might have been on and off the phone....we'll see....I wonder if he had porn with him....

12 posted on 05/20/2015 8:26:16 PM PDT by cherry
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Thanks raptor22.

13 posted on 05/21/2015 4:00:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: cherry

I think the kid was texting another peter puffer or looking a gay porn and they DO NOT want a queer responsible for all these deaths


14 posted on 05/21/2015 4:14:57 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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