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Written by Ken Reid
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
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 Well, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to directly link the Minnesota bridge collapse to George W. Bush. The winner is Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar. Via Reuters.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, suggested Bush administration spending on the Iraq war may have crimped funding for domestic projects such as road and bridge construction, and for such infrastructure projects as new levees for New Orleans.
"We've spent $500 billion in Iraq and we have bridges falling down in this country," Klobuchar told MSNBC. "I see a connection between messed-up priorities."
Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said billions of dollars were available for road and bridge repairs.
The bridge was a vital link over the Mississippi River and the most heavily used bridge in Minnesota with roughly 140,000 vehicles passing over each day.
If Minnesota wanted a new bridge they could have built a new bridge. As Mary Peters points out, there was plenty of money, I suppose the only thing lacking was leadership. It looks like we are going down the same road as in those infuriating days after Katrina where personal responsibility was a fogotten idea.
I'm guessing that within another 24 hours, we should start hearing from the aluminum foil hat crowd about how the collapse didn't look like a "normal" collapse, but more like a controlled demolition. I'm equally sure somebody will find explosives residue on the bridge footings.
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