Sure it is, honey.

Ted Stevens' "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska for example.

than a "lick and a promise" from the current cretin in the W.H. they are a stupid as the Red Staters in Louisiana. I mean, really, what's one dinky little bridge and a few unlucky drivers when you have hundreds killed and many bridges bombed daily in Iraq Nam and enough pocket change being tossed around to "lose" $8.8 billion in crisp $100 bills neatly stacked and shrink-wrapped in the vaults currently guarded by Maliki and Co.

Bushit is an equal opportunity incompetent. Blue State, Red State, Preemptive war, you name it. He would have mismanaged the last Supper if he'd had a go at it...

The White House is pretty casual about connecting Congressional earmarks to the failure to maintain infrastructure, considering that before 2006 Republicans controlled Congress for a decade.

But then, compared to the White House's mendacity when it comes to Iraq, I suppose this approaches plausibility.

What? I got it after thinking about it, but it's way too hard to parse.

Pencil necks bash the recent "D" grade given to American bridges, highways, waterpipes and schools. Hey, a "D" is still top 4. President Bush was a straight "C-" scholar in college and look how far he got.

In honor of Mr Bush's skill at crashing baseball teams, oil companies and countries, we should rename all collapsed federal highway bridges in honor of George W Bush.

Shit fire, lady! They're still finding bodies in the 9th Ward of New Orleans.

"The bodies aren't out of the river," and "The bodies aren't even cold yet," and "the bodies were barely in the ground before ...," and "The hole in the ground at the World Trade Center was still smoking when ...," and "the blood of our troops had not yet even congealed on the floorboards of their Humvee when ..."

How about, "the mesquite Asian Fusion barbecue was still warm when Laura Bush jumped down from heaven in Air Force Two and did a bunch of grandstanding photo ops with all the "heck-of-job" officials at the death site where (wait for it) the bodies still aren't out of the river yet."

"You know, literally an hour after the bridge collapsed you had Democrats in Congress making such accusations while people are still underwater needing to be rescued. And I think it is reprehensible ... And I have to also remind you, when you look at those highway bills and the billions upon billions that American taxpayers are spending, it's congressional earmarks that take up a lot of that money, and believe me that money is not going to fund maintenance of bridges."

I do believe a lot of money is not going to fund maintenance of bridges, but I have a hard time believing Dana Perino isn't aware of 'Uncle' Ted Stevens and his penchant for both earmarks and bridges!

The Minneapolis bridge collapse and New Orleans (and the Gulf region generally), devastated by Hurricane Katrina, lie at opposite ends of the Mississippi River and offer interesting study in contrast in terms of the general state of American infrastructure and the response (in terms of class/race, money, etc.) and neither seems to present a terribly flattering picture of our government's capablity to do anything before or after the fact except ignore, neglect and deny...and then go on the attack.

It gives new meaning to the need to "Rebuild our democracy."

It is so, so, so different than when the GOP ran Congress. They were just so much better at maintaining infrastructure than the Dem.

And that was... when?

part of his shiny new $2.2 Billion fleet...looking wistfully out at the further destruction - quick where are the terrorists the Usurper can blame?

The Parliament of Whores who have chosen to serve 4% of the American people to the detriment of the rest of us would be my guess.

How much was appropriated for the 'bridge to nowhere'?

I didn't see the footage, but when I saw that Bush had visited the collapsed bridge, I naturally assumed he arrived in an Evel Kineval-style jumpsuit, and jumped the gap on a high-powered dirt bike, slyly winking at reporters upon landing.

I can't speak for national Democrats, but I can certainly explain why Minnesota Democrats show no reticence about connecting the bridge collapse, the warnings about deteriorating bridges, and the Republicans' successful effort to thwart increased infrastructure spending for the sake of taxophobic politics. This paragraph from Saturday's Minneapolis StarTribune nicely explains the Republican attitude that drew accusing fingers so quickly and angrily: "Pawlenty's opposition to a gasoline tax increase was long-standing and adamant. In 2005 he also vetoed a gas tax increase, asking of DFLers, "How dumb can they be?" Earlier this year he said DFLers "have simply been obsessed" with a gas tax." http://www.startribune.com/587/story/1343631.html

I explain why Minnesota Democrats were angry about Pawlenty's attitude more in depth here: http://www.ravensblog.net/#why-ready-to-blame

Fuck your cracker redneck wannabe hillbilly ass to blue blazes. A trillion dollars down the White House outhouse for Iraq. Of course the country is coming apart at every nail you dumb fuck.

How dare you to make fun of that joker in blue? Did you see him with the construction helmet? One of the boys, and that after his overweight Laura presented herself in a suit somwhat too tight. And Prrrromises after a series of errrs and emmms almost like in New Orleans and with a cop and a firefighter as background. Typical Bushit. Oh, what did I say, Anno, you were right on.