The Despicable Harry Reid
While rescue personnel are still trying to pull dead bodies out of the wreckage in Minnneapolis, before the first funeral, before we even know why the bridge fell, Harry Reid has decided to play politics.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the Minnesota bridge tragedy is a wakeup call on America’s deteriorating infrastructure.
“Since 9/11 we have taken our eye off the ball,” said Reid, suggesting infrastructure spending has taken a back seat to spending on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“(The bridge disaster) really should be a wakeup call for America,” said Reid, “a wakeup call to America because we have an infrastructure that is deteriorated and deteriorating. Bridges, dams, highways, water systems, sewage systems.”
What is it with Congressional Democrats using the corpses of Americans for their petty political ambitions? You’d think that they might twig to the fact that it’s ticking the American people off once that three percent approval rating came in last week. In contrast, Howard the Duck managed to do six times better with its critics.
I don’t think I ever want to be in the position of having to sextuple my approval rating before I’m better regarded than a guy in a duck suit.
UPDATE: Nick Coleman also decided to catch come political lightning in his bottle, but I’m not nearly as angry at him. His column, or whatever you want to call it, reads like he’s spent the night before hitting the bottle o’ Rye especially hard. It doesn’t make a lot of sense in its details and basically boils down to “It’s someone’s fault or maybe it’s everyone’s fault. Let’s all get angry!”
Ed Morrissey unpacked a couple of useful points out of the column and, though I disagree strongly with him on one point, I’ll say that it’s a discussion we certainly should have. Later.
UPDATE 2: Norm Coleman is a Senator. Nick Coleman, the guy who actually wrote the piece, is a regular Strip columnist. Moral of this story? Don’t blog tired. I’ve changed the erroneous reference.
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of course, Republicans have NEVER used the corpses of Americans for their petty political ambitions … or have they?
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Wow, a tu quoque argument. How original.