McCain blames deaths and 35W bridge collapse on Palin's pork
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Stumble ThisDays after the 35W bridge collapse John McCain connected that $233 million with the tragedy that claimed 13 lives in Minneapolis.
“Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges around the country,” McCain said at a campaign stop in Ankeny, Iowa on Aug. 4, 2007. “Maybe the 200,000 people who cross that bridge every day would have been safer than spending $233 million of your tax dollars on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it.”
“Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges around the country,” McCain said at a campaign stop in Ankeny, Iowa on Aug. 4, 2007. “Maybe the 200,000 people who cross that bridge every day would have been safer than spending $233 million of your tax dollars on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it.”
Let's see Fox News play this clip. Anytime. Or how about a reporter asking McCain about it?
If Drudge doesn't report it, it never happened.
Governor Tim Pawlenty wanted to fund bridge repair by raising the gas tax, but was intimidated out of doing so by anti-tax activist and Republican guru, Grover Norquist. Pawlenty had previously signed on to Grover Norquist's 'no tax pledge', so he would have suffered severe punishment from the party had he decided to be a leader and fund his state's crumbling infrastructure. Grover Norquist is famous for saying that he wants to make government small enough to drown in a bathtub, but I guess he's cool with drowning citizens as well.
Before crossing the bridges of your home town, you might want to check and see if your legislators have signed on to the Norquist pledge. The California Legislature is currently filled with neutered Republican Norquit toadies and they are holding up the budget.
As they say, the truthiness will out.