He said he was sorry for all the trouble in Minnesota and stated he was praying.
Does this man do nothing but give American issues lip service? Yeah. He is more worried about money than he is about 'being' at a collapsing infrastructure that HE and HIS REPUBLICAN 'infrastructure' has CAUSED in these emergencies and resultant deaths.
What a jerk Bush and the Republicans are.
The American people need new representation in DC. Dear God, all he has to say is dollars and cents and tax cuts.
Someone SHUT THIS IDIOT OF A PRESIDENT UP !!!!!!
ONLY after deaths occur do Republicans come forward to 'invest' in infrastructure. OVERNIGHT. There are $5 million for emergency measures to provide the people of Minnesota with 'options' with a major thurway collapse to prevent lose of income and job attendance at work.
There is IMMEDIATELY $100 million for reconstruction of the bridge.
WHERE were these monies BEFORE people died?
The people of the USA need to identify the lack of leadership in the Republicans they elect. They are reactionaries for a reason. So long as nothing 'happens' they don't have to spend money, allowing the appearance of 'good government.' Good government does not allow deaths to occur and lose of 'function' of infrastructure that interrupt American lives.
This is an unforgiveable incident and all the leadership responsible for it through out of office ASAP.
Being a proud Minnesotan is 'rhetorical' political speech. Americans should not have to rely on having 'heroes' around to save their lives. Their lives should be guaranteed to them.
Get rid of these people. The Secretary of Transportation should be highly ridiculed and discharged from office for this tragedy.
"I'm sorry" is NOT good enough anymore !
I strongly suggest Bush put his veto pen away.
Bush to Congress: Finish Defense budget (click here)
Updated
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Bush said Thursday the Democratic-run Congress shouldn't leave Washington for its August recess without at least finishing a spending bill covering the Defense Department.
"In a time of war, one spending bill ought to take precedence over all the rest," Bush said in a speech before a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council.
"Members of Congress ought to finish the spending bill for the Department of Defense before they go on recess so I can sign it into law," the president said. "We got troops in harm's way. They need to exercise their responsibility."
Congress is due to begin a month-long recess in about two weeks, and Bush said lawmakers must finish work on that defense bill even if they don't get to 11 other government spending bills by then.
But with the next fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, not a single one of the 12 annual spending bills for agency budgets and programs has yet been passed by the full Congress. Democrats are adding about $23 billion to Bush's proposed budget — or about 2% of the so-called discretionary budget covering non-security-related domestic programs. The White House has reacted with several veto threats, and the two branches remain entrenched in a protracted wrestling match over spending.
Bush threatens to veto extra spending (click here)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — President Bush warned Congress on Saturday that he will use his veto power to stop runaway government spending.
"The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies," Bush said in his radio address.
The House passed a $37 billion budget for the Homeland Security Department on Friday, but Republicans rallied enough votes to uphold a promised veto from Bush.
The measure — one of several annual spending bills that Congress began to consider this week — exceeds Bush's request for the department by $2.1 billion.
Democrats on Friday defended the extra money in the homeland security bill, noting it contains money to hire 3,000 additional border agents, improve explosive detection at airports and provides money to double the amount of cargo screened on passenger aircraft.
THE SAFETY RATINGS SYSTEM has been changed by The Bush Administration. The rating systems previous to January of 2001 need to be returned and scrutinized for IMPROVMENT rather than ratings that were 'rolled back' in their aggressiveness to protect people. I don't trust ANY of the changes The Bush Administration has made to the 'safety' infrastructure of government either. It allows them to say 'oops' we need to improve what we are doing. NO MORE. ONE of the importance of this collapse has to be the issue of what 'The Republicans have done to secure tax cuts OVER the safety and security of Americans' on all fronts. We have poisoned food supplies, collapsing infrastructures as well as the mess internationally and on any and all war fronts. This Republican leadership when they held majority have done huge amounts of damage to the well being of American and Americans.
I demand an investigation to all measures having contributed to this and the possiblity of this happening to other infrastructure in the USA. It is going to require 'huge amounts of money' to RETURN the American infrastructure to the safety of the people. Americans' well being have been marginalized to allow previous redundancy to safety to come into lack of that redundancy 'giving the appearance' of 'good government.' The UPGRADES to the American Infrastructure ahve been postponed and postponed and postponed to fund an illegal war. I think Bush and his administration and other Republicans call it 'prudent' government? I remind, these people believe in PUSHING Americans to their limits of heroship and prayerfulness to prevent and survive tragedy. Americans have become 'used to' these issues of tragedy (ie. Katrina, Americans learned they were 'on their own.) and their rewards are personal in 'atta boys' rather than their insured safety.
"Atta Boys" don't prevent infrastructure collapse that is catatrophic to American lives.
Sorry, to insult, but people HAVE TO come to terms with this !
...later...
