Bush Rejects Gas Tax To Fund Bridge Repair, Decries Hill Spending

[struggle4progress]

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 10, 2007; Page A03

President Bush yesterday rejected a gasoline tax increase to repair thousands of structurally deficient bridges such as the one that collapsed in Minneapolis ~snip~

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/09/AR2007080902334.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Is he dense or just stubborn??

[Maddy McCall]

2. He's trying to recast himself as a fiscal conservative.

:spray:

:rofl:

[VTMechEngr]

3. What an asshat!

He is just determined to bankrupt us.

[4nic8em]

4. What a surprise...

This is the type of response I have come to expect from Mr. Rat Bastard.

[TahitiNut]

5. Drag out that ol' credit card and mortgage the nation's grandchildren's future.

... and great-grandchildren, too. (That's why they need their estates.) :puke:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. More dead Americans...

from whatever cause, means less energy use. It's his energy conservation plan.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Yet he'll happily pay $250mil for Minneapolis

Is he going to do this for EVERY bridge that collapses? After the fact?

He's never even heard of the words "due diligence", has he?

[Faux pas]

8. uh....buck fush. n/t

[Just-plain-Kathy]

9. It’s a given Bush would be against gas taxes...

...he wants all hikes in gas prices to go into his buddies bank accounts.

[radfringe]

10. it hasn't occured to him

that it's not just us "little people" who use roads/bridges and other infrastructure on a daily basis - it's also businesses

now if congress had proposed selling bridges/road/infrastructure to a private company, like say, Halliburton - he would have been in favor of it

once again it highlights how we are bringing democracy "over there" while losing it "over here", erecting firehouses "over there" and shutting them down "over here", building roads and bridges "over there" while our crumble "over here"

[tibbiit]

11. He calls for congress to curb spending to fix bridges

Congress can do just that... curb spending on HIS WAR!
He wants congress to revisit the out of control spending... cant some dem make a big deal out of revisiting the spending on Bush's war?
But of course the dems wont turn this issue around on bush... (they miss easy instances always)
tib