Yesterday we blogged on the utter waste that is the Dear Leader's Iraq War and the attendant drain on the Treasury. Any other president, any other sentient being (except Dick Cheney), would have marshaled the resources of the federal government and spent that trillion dollars fixing our well known and severe infrastructure problems (like fucking levees). Instead, this president, this fucking idiot, this shit stain of a man, started a needless war that will ultimately kill hundreds of thousands and make homeless millions.
Not to go all Rude Pundit on you, but isn't there a point when the fucking Democrats say "enough"? Isn't there a Very Serious Person who will say that this president and his administration are a complete fucking failure? Hasn't there been enough death? Bush kills quickly via his little nation-building experiment, and he kills slowly by, among other things, letting his corporate buddies pump all varieties of shit into our air and water. He's trashed the military, the economy, and the country. Impeach and remove.
UPDATE: Due to the bridge collapse, groundbreaking for the new Twins stadium was postponed. The stadium will be built with roughly $500,000,000 taxpayer dollars. Do you think this money might now be spent elsewhere, like to keep the fucking bridges from collapsing? [memeorandum has other blogging on this topic]
BEST BRIDGE COMMENT OF THE DAY: at Wonkette.
Isn't there a Very Serious Person who will say that this president and his administration are a complete fucking failure?
Well, there was James Baker, but he was largely discredited after breaking with Butcher and Candlestickmaker.
Posted by: tata | August 02, 2007 at 08:12 AM
"sentient being (except Dick Cheney)" It would be a grave mistake to assume Cheney is sentient. He is, after all, know as the Chenackula.
Posted by: mandt | August 02, 2007 at 09:09 AM
Shrill. I like it.
Posted by: Frederick | August 02, 2007 at 12:21 PM
Now now, Agit...you know damned well that sports trumps all in America! After all, if we didn't have those contest which pit gladiator against gladiator, we might have to bake more bread!
Posted by: actor212 | August 02, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Wait -- a blue state or red state? That makes all the difference.
Posted by: catherine | August 02, 2007 at 12:46 PM
blogenfreude, you do a weary heart good. Thanks.
Posted by: arse poetica | August 02, 2007 at 02:55 PM
great post....and I can't believe that the media does get that MAYBE all of our Infrastructure money is really over in Iraq....gee there is a thought...not rocket science..just reality....
Posted by: enigma4ever | August 02, 2007 at 08:57 PM
As soon as I heard that a 2005 structural study of the bridge had found problems with it then a subsequently commissioned study had not a highly plausible scenario was immediately evident: problems with the bridge, the creators of the second study leaned on to give it the all clear because there's no money to do the work needed while Bush and his gang of maniacs spend a trillion dollars killing people in the Middle East.
Posted by: frolix22 | August 03, 2007 at 03:18 AM
why build bridges over here when we can build bridges over there???
Posted by: Comandante Agi | August 03, 2007 at 06:28 AM
"Hasn't there been enough death?"-----Not until Bush and Cheney are worm brunch!
Posted by: mandt | August 03, 2007 at 09:12 AM
I certainly feel the same way you do about this, and the destruction of our infrastructure, but this didn't happen over night, or when George Bush took office. This started in 1980s with Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. I know many of you think of Bill as saint Bill, but NAFTA, GATT, and the continuation of Deregulation and privatization continued during his time.
I used to drive tour buses, and I have watched bigger and bigger semis, and heavier loads hitting the roads. larger numbers of trucks on the highway, which has almost destroyed the railroads because in the past they hauled the heavy loads, and even as late as the 70s cities were pretty well connected to the railroads. All that extra weight is buckling highways causing that irritating Click, Click, Click, as you drive down the road.
finally it is conservative ideology that prevents them from fixing roads. Reactionaries react. If it ain't broke don't fix it. They knew about the levies in New Orleans for over 10 years, and did nothing about it. They have known about these bridges for 20 years and have done nothing about it. Only when it becomes a crisis will they do anything about it.
Personally I dont see a change with the next election. The front runners in both parties are going to keep up with the same failed policies, and to keep us quite they will continue to fight over wedge issues that they will never really do anything about.
Tom
Posted by: tom | August 03, 2007 at 10:55 AM
why build bridges over here when we can build bridges over there???
Posted by: Comandante Agi
I'm surprised Halliburton hasn't concocted a scheme whereby they sell Iraq our old crumbling infrastructure, bill us for the sale, then never bother to deliver the bridges.
Posted by: actor212 | August 03, 2007 at 08:00 PM
Well you know, you live with the bridges you HAVE, not the bridges you WISH you had (e.g., ones that don't collapse). As long as no elites were hurt by the collapse, it's OK in the shrub's book. Hey blogen, when did you get as dirty a mouth as me? I'm impressed at your f-bombing!
Posted by: HelenWheels | August 05, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Tom,
Not to put too fine a point to your post, but it was Reagan who deregulated the trucking industry, paving the way for the double trailers and increased load capacities.
Posted by: actor212 | August 06, 2007 at 09:22 AM
Helenwheels
You are right. I probably should have made that point a little clearer.
Tom
Posted by: tom | August 09, 2007 at 11:32 AM
ooooooops I meant actor212!
Tom
Posted by: tom | August 09, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Government officials should be careful while constructing, permitting these levees. It is not even acceptable these kind of infrastructural problems in world's richest country...
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Posted by: Peter | August 16, 2007 at 08:39 AM