Bush says the gov't will "respond robustly" re: the bridge collapse.

[LaraMN]

:wtf:

Sorry, Canada.

I think we're gonna bomb you.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. We will bomb Minnesota once we've finished bombing New Orleans.

[LaraMN]

2. Nope. Too many white people here.

:eyes:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Ooh, truth...

Expect FEMA on the job by the middle of today, then!

[Dangerously Amused]

11. Nah.

They've already signed the clean-up and rebuilding contract with Halliburton.

I understand the Mall of America will be seized and restyled as the "new, upscale Gitmo."

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. That tells me

that the bogusmercials on KPIG are TRUE!



You'll never be able to leave at all when you shop Gargantua Mall!



:scared:

[Bassic]

3. Respond robustly,

by not actually spending enough money to fix the problems, because raisin taxes is the devil's work.

[LaraMN]

7. Respond robustly by sendin' POWERFUL good prayers!

:puke:

The only thing worse than watching the disaster footage is having to listen Captain Crackhead blabber about it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Maybe we'll get to see him strut about the site with a megaphone, hugging firemen.

:puke:

[Fire Walk With Me]

63. make it stop make it stop make it stop

http://www.star-telegram.com/190/story/190238.html

[Bassic]

12. Agreed.

That speech was nothing less than shameful. And he was probably already drunk from a morning binge.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. I lived around the corner from this bridge collapse in the '80s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus_River_Bridge


Scared the devil out of me. I'm still terrified of bridges. My heart aches for those involved with this disaster.

[LaraMN]

9. I freaked out when I found out what happened.

I was worried about my little sister and my best friend. Luckily, I got through to them before the phone lines were all tied up.

My husband drove over that bridge a few times on Monday; I used it all the time when we lived in the cities.
I still haven't heard about my grandparents, but they live a bit of a ways away, and I VERY much doubt they'd have been anywhere near it.

It's fucked up and depressing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Oh, kind of like the robust response to Katrina?

Yeah, New Orleans has been completely rebuilt, just like Bush promised! So I guess the new bridge will be up soon and all the other crumbling bridges will be repaired now?

It does occur to me that because the Republican Convention will be held here, this particular bridge will be quickly rebuilt... Only the other crumbling bridges all over the country that the Republican assclowns won't see, won't be repaired.

[LaraMN]

13. It will be a flying bridge, even!

Between T-Paw and Bush, everyone must feel as though they are cradled in the bosom of security and competence.

[gmoney]

64. Bridge to Mars.

Reallocate all that NASA money. Much safer than shootin' rockets, and nearly as practical.

[LynneSin]

10. Right about now Norm Coleman must be sweating his ass off

If Bush fails to help out with the people affected by the bridge (especially since it was a main artery in the city), people will get pissed and hold Norm Coleman accountable in 2008.

If Bush shows up in Minnesota to give his support to those people affected by the bridge (especially since it was a main artery in the city), people will get pissed and hold Norm Coleman accountable in 2008.

In a nutshell - Norm is probably going to be unemployed in 2008

[LaraMN]

14. Good.

I'll be glad to see that fucker go.

[commander bunnypants]

15. glad you are ok

and the family too.


CB

[LaraMN]

16. I'm a long way from the Twin Cities.

There are a few DUers I'd like to see check in, though...

[eyepaddle]

37. Just in case anybody's wondering, I was nowhere near the bridge

But I can't help but think of the untold number of times I have driven across it. I also remember occasionally wondering just how bad it would be if that very same bridge collapsed.

Damn.

[LaraMN]

38. Good! I wasn't sure if you were a Cities DUer, or not.

So glad you're okay!

It's all just surreal, isn't it?

[eyepaddle]

59. Surreal indeed!

My geology background REALLLLLLYY made this hard to believe--my first gut reaction was "we don't even have earthquakes here--that damn thing just fell down!" It's that whole "this kind of thing doesn't happen HERE"-syndrome.

I've made it my business to avoid 35W as much as possible for about the last ten years--traffic now will reach almost sublimely intolerable levels. I'm glad I just moved to within two miles of where I work and have shopping between work and dhome.

[LaraMN]

61. It IS going to SUCK with the bridge down!

My husband's 15 mile commute when we lived in the cities took about 45 minutes.
Now that we're near Duluth, his 20-something mile commute takes about 20-some minutes.

I sure don't miss the traffic!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

19. Oh I'd bet he is

While Bush just blamed the Democrats in congress, Tony Snow just stabbed Pawlenty in the back by saying the state's responsible for this whole thing.

See this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1495260">"White House cites deficiencies in bridge but buck stops with the states"

I have to agree: Norm's days are numbered, and he knows it. Especially with the '08 convention in Saint Paul, just next door to this glaring reminder of Timmy "no new taxes" Pawlenty's legacy.

[KitchenWitch]

26. Jesus, there is no honor among those people.

first Rove tells Pawlenty not to run for Senate because "they" wanted Norm Coleman (had it been ME, I would have grown a pair and ran anyway). And now they offer no support to their puppet that did their bidding.

If I were Timmy the Tool, I would be fucking pissed.

[CatholicEdHead]

17. Only after getting Iraq funds passed first

WCCO 4 showed the first part of it. After some crocodile tears, he went right into blaming the Congress for not passing the 12 spending bills. It pissed me off quite a bit. WCCO did break away after that thank goodness.

[LaraMN]

18. Yeah, well, he can blame away.

Minnesotans know why our infrastructure is going to crap, and we know who to blame.
And how to vote.

[CatholicEdHead]

51. I think he was pushing that towards a national audience

[LaraMN]

56. I know, I know.

He just makes me so utterly enraged.
I'm sure you can relate...

[Critters2]

20. I just keep thinking that I crossed the Mississippi 10 times

in the last three weeks--and at places where the river is even wider and deeper than at Minneapolis (3 times on the I-80 bridge at the Quad Cities; once the 280 bridge, and 6 times on the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge). I'm feelin' mighty lucky today. But worried, too. Can't help but wonder which bridge (tunnel, steam pipe, levee) will be next.

[jobycom]

40. When I first heard that a Mississippi River bridge collapsed, I pictured a NOLA bridge

Or the Huey P Long Bridge, built in 1935:

[rug]

21. Looks like Utah's getting a new bridge.

[Parche]

22. Respond

I said this at least 2-4years ago, during the Elections

$100Billion divided $1-2billion per state, bigger states would get $3-4billion for
infrastructure, roads, bridges,schools, highways....etc......


They can send over $500 billion to Iraq, but they cant fix our crumbling bridges and roads?


My rant over....:hi:

[Flaxbee]

24. no kidding...

this country's infrastructure is crumbling due to neglect, while we're actively destroying the infrastructure of Iraq.

Wonderful, innit?

Hi Parche! :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. By "They can send over $500 billion to Iraq" you mean, to American companies working in Iraq?

Carlyle Group's 8 billion dollar bid for Virgin communications came from our tax dollars, or something... It's all a debacle...not ragging on you.

[Parche]

28. Funds to Iraq

Both, it all goes to the military and the contractors :hi:

[Parche]

23. Respond

I said this at least 2-4years ago, during the Elections

$100Billion divided $1-2billion per state, bigger states would get $3-4billion for
infrastructure, roads, bridges,schools, highways....etc......


They can send over $500 billion to Iraq, but they cant fix our crumbling bridges and roads?


My rant over....:hi:

[jakefrep]

27. Which means he'll blow up the bridge going in the other direction

NT

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. Or say "it's to keep out illegal immigrants!"

[LaraMN]

30. Like Canadians...

who have secret plans to steal all our wimmin' and build giant impenetrable igloos to house terra'ists.

[SKKY]

65. And sell everyone cheap Viagra...

....You forgot about the cheap viagra.

[Connonym]

31. Have I mentioned yet today that King George is a fucking MORAN?

[LaraMN]

34. But consistently so!

He is boldly staying the course of mediocrity and idiocy.

[billyskank]

32. Don't worry. If it's about helping people, "respond robustly" means

"we couldn't give a flying fuck about you losers."

[LaraMN]

33. I am renaming him "the Robustinator."

That word is utterly meaningless.

[SeattleGirl]

36. ROFL!

:rofl:

[av8rdave]

39. "respond robustly..." You mean like they did in New Orleans

[LaraMN]

42. Perhaps we can resurrect Brownie to direct recovery efforts.

That's pretty much in line with what I'd expect from our administration.

[av8rdave]

55. I think we may expect a better response this time, IF....

there is a sufficient percentage of white people affected by the tragedy. Sad to say, but I believe that is Bush's criteria.

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. That means

he's gonna go up there and play with some boobs.

[LaraMN]

44. We've got at least two of them.

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. I saw a pic of two others

a coupla days ago.




:hide:

[LaraMN]

47. Those ones are far more intelligent!

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Then how come

they let cheap brass come between 'em? :P

[LaraMN]

49. Because they're members of the working poor?

I got nuttin'...

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

52. Nah

You got somethin'. :hi:

[jobycom]

43. Another presidential promise peppered with alarming alliteration.

Fear him, for his foibles are farcically fierce, and frequently unfortunate.

[LaraMN]

45. I suspect his mediocrity will be metered out methodically.

:crazy:

[jobycom]

50. He's doing his doggone damndest to emend the dilemma

[texanwitch]

53. The word robustly is his big word for today.

I bet he walks around the White House saying it all day.

[LaraMN]

57. At least he didn't say "robussly."

I'd half expect as much.

[acmavm]

54. Is that code for 'sending Laura's fat ass up there'?

[LaraMN]

58. No. She's been sent to replace our state bird- presently, the loon.

with her introduction, the state bird will become the Loon.

[Eurobabe]

60. BushSpeak: MN, get in line behind LA

:boring: yawn, too many tragedies, I'm on vacation now. I'll deal with it in September.

[montanto]

62. After its nap.