I’m First. I would like to thank my family and friends for making this all possible. I could not have done it without them. Also I would like to thank John Amato for opening up his website to this lonely peon. Thank you John. Also I wish this god damn election was over so we could move onto the trials to throw the Republicans who put us in this position. God bless you all.

McCain is not a "natural born citizen" having been born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936.

If elected he may not be able to take the oath of office.

Well, since reality doesn't seem to factor into the proceedings, I shall blame it on invisible pterodactyls flapping their wings too hard.

McCain does not know if he is coming or going. Do you remember how they called Kerry a flip flopper over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

How many moronic flubs and gaffs has McSame delivered already? A lot, but they're buried on the back page as Obama and Billary continue to pound on each other.

McSame is coasting along...with no one questioning his moronic comments.

McDoesntSeetheBigPicture

What a simple and small-minded little man like Chimpy this stupid old turd is.........

P.D. @ 6:

What about the Trillions were wasting in Iraq Senator McCain? What about the Republican policies of the last several years. Do you want to know why that bridge collapsed Senator Mccain? Because Rebugs don't give a crap about people like us. We are lowly peons to big-shots like you.

And this asshole wantd to attack Iran and stay in Iraq for another hundred years and they spend a shitload of money building schools and roads in Iraq as I type. This mental midget is blaming earmarks? I’m blaming Bush and the stupid fucking war. I’m blaming tax cuts to the richest sons of bitches in the world. I’m blaming tax cuts for the biggest corporations in the world. This mental midget wants to make these tax cuts permanent. He also wants to have a gas tax “holiday” this summer. This gas tax pays for these bridges that are falling down. I am so pissed off right now I could spit.

Does pork-barrel spending sometimes go to useless or unnecessary things? Yes.
But to say a lack of money for the repair of bridges and roads to prevent such things from happening is strictly because of pork-barrel spending is nonsense.
Apparently the senator hasn't looked at the Iraq bill recently, or at all, and he supports the continuation of the war.
Plus, he is in favor of unnecessary tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Gee, wouldn't that lost revenue be useful for something, like, fixing roads and bridges?

I've got a sinking feeling in my stomach that somehow the election will be stolen AGAIN. That's of course assuming that the Bush gang let an election go on. There's so much that could change between now and November. Why George might get a hangnail and decide to declare martial law. He of course gave himself the power to do that for just about any reason at all. Be afraid people, not of the foreign terrorists, be afraid of the ones in Washington.

Captain Bitter, you are right! If only we would impeach this president, the world might have more respect for us, but no. There Bush is, still in the White House with scandals coming out everyday. Depressing no? The war my very well finish this country. And our leaders are spineless. History will not be kind.

Nathan @ 3:

McCain is not a "natural born citizen" having been born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936.

If elected he may not be able to take the oath of office.

Oh, come on. He was born on a US military base.

Dave, I too, fear the election will be rigged. To this day I cant believe Kerry lost. I don't think I can deal with another heartache.

Rico @ 18:

McCain will get a free pass all the way until November because attacking him can be considered a form of "elder-abuse" and abuse of the the elderly (even verbally) is a crime in most states.

No, not November - I think the dem candidate can justifiably rip McHole a new one during debates.

pork barrel –noun Informal. a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.

McCain's fallacy.

Pork Barrel spending keeps bridges from being built or repaired; event hough , Pork Barrel spending is defined as money spent on local improvements such as repairing or building new bridges.

CNN just put the McCain clip up about oil and the war. McCain spun it into nonsense on the plane after the McFuckup.

Captain Bitter Elitist Hussein Kangaroo @ 29:

CNN just put the McCain clip up about oil and the war. McCain spun it into nonsense on the plane after the McFuckup.*

*According to Dana Gash. The CNN PR person for McCant on his campaign.

ConcernedCanuck @ 30:

“The bridge in Minneapolis didn’t collapse because there wasn’t enough money,” McCain

You mean porkbarrel like Iraq McCain?

Iraq is not Pork Barrel Spending. Iraq is a full fledge looting of the Royal Treasury.

Why isn't the oil statement all over the airwaves? A brief mention here, a breif mention there, and that is about it. Even on the web-sites, nothing. CBS, MSNBC, CNN. But they certainly played the Wright bullshit over and over again. WTF?

Billy Bob, Where would we migrate? Our reputation is so bad, people are claiming they are Canadian. And that my friends, is so incredibly sad.

From Steve Benen's last link:

On Thursday, McCain said he was worried most about safety.

"All I can do to respond to those critics is, my job is to make America as safe as possible," he told reporters. "My job is to prevent those tragedies, such as the canal that was dug in New Orleans that brought the hurricane up and did more damage to New Orleans."

Did McCain just blame the drowning of New Orleans on pork-barrel spending too? [His reference to "pork-barrel spending" being intended for Democrats, who didn't take over Congress until 2007.]

Captain Bitter, That's it? If Hillary or Obama said it, they would hound them to death. Oh, you got to love MSM!

At least Gregory isn't as bad as Wolfie. But notice how quickly they move on? Jeez! If it was a Democrat, Faux News would be sceaming bloody murder.

There's a much more direct link between the bridge collapse and "crony capitalism." The NTSB released some pictures of failing portions of the bridge that were taken as part of an inspection in 2003. A competent firm would have immediately recognized a serious danger. The firm that did that inspection (and subsequent ones) was URS Group, a company run by Diane Feinstein's husband and full of lots of big Republican donors.

Competency isn't the criteria on which these contracts were decided. This is what happens when you let Senators sleep with lobbyists.

By the way, URS Group is also the folks who staged the mock hurricane practice in New Orleans called Hurricane Pam - IN 2004! If these people had their thumbs out of their buts they could have put together a recommendation list before Katrina, at least.

Public financing of elections would go a long way towards fxing this bullshit.

Loonie @ 5:

Well, since reality doesn't seem to factor into the proceedings, I shall blame it on invisible pterodactyls flapping their wings too hard.

Someone in China stepped on a butterfly.

P.D. @ 43:

At least Gregory isn't as bad as Wolfie. But notice how quickly they move on? Jeez! If it was a Democrat, Faux News would be sceaming bloody murder.

I'm beginning to think that the MSM id just giving people what they want. I mean middle America people. Middle America is so stupid and believe only what they want. There was the guy on 60 Minutes when they did an Obama or Hillary piece and this redneck was saying that Obama was a Mooooslum. He had heard. The 60 Minutes guy told him he was wrong but the guy obviously didn't want to believe him. He probably got the information from the email thing or from one of his drinking buddies who got the email. It just showed me people get what they really want out of anything. Of course the people here know better. We know what is going on but middle America don't really give a shit. They hear what they want to.

So let me get this straight. McCain makes verbal blunders daily, and Hillary vows to "obliterate" Iran and isn't even questioned about it, while at the same time McCain and Clinton both pander to the American people with a "gas tax holiday" that will only make more bridges fall, and put more money in the pockets of the oil companies, yet the MSM is still pounding to death talk about Rev. Wright and whether or not Obama has testicles. Where's my passport?

I Like Pie @ 14:

It really makes me sick when political hacks use the deaths of innocent people as stage props in a political campaign.

As the 2008 RNC convention is in Minneapolis later this year, and thus only a few miles away from the collapsed bridge,
I hope McInsane+RNC is going to have zome serious security if they carry on saying garbage like this.
They are going to need it.

OK - this kind of spending is never going away. At the risk of being "real", the representatives that get re-elected are the ones who can bring federal money into their district. That is, in many real ways, why they are there in the first place.

Money that YOU can bring home "pays for critical local infrastructure", while money that anyone ELSE brings home is "Pork Barrel" spending.

But anyway... at the risk of repeating my #20 comment - isn't ANYONE going to notice the fact that he's SIMULTANEOUSLY lamenting unrelated "buzzword" factors that had nothing to do with this bridge collapse while proposing a Gas Holiday whose entire funding will be stolen from the very program that specifically is responsible for maintaining this kind of infrastructure?

MSM=White noise.

Andy K Jong Il @ 46:

Leslie [Hussein] @ 39:

From Steve Benen's last link:

On Thursday, McCain said he was worried most about safety.

"All I can do to respond to those critics is, my job is to make America as safe as possible," he told reporters. "My job is to prevent those tragedies, such as the canal that was dug in New Orleans that brought the hurricane up and did more damage to New Orleans."

Did McCain just blame the drowning of New Orleans on pork-barrel spending too? [His reference to "pork-barrel spending" being intended for Democrats, who didn't take over Congress until 2007.]

Before you jump the gun, he might be regarding to the canals that were built through the wetlands that are now dissapppearing. That project dates back to the '60's or '70's- when Dems controlled the Congress.

Not that I'm defending the guy, because, if I'm right, the guy is trying to blame today's Dems for the pork barrel spending of 40 years ago. Some evidence, huh?

To clarify, I think he's referring to the MRGO project, funded in '56 and completed in '65. Definitely Dems, but still- 52 years ago!

Old Billy Hussein @ 60:

Andy K Jong Il @ 46:

Leslie [Hussein] @ 39:

From Steve Benen's last link:
Did McCain just blame the drowning of New Orleans on pork-barrel spending too? [His reference to "pork-barrel spending" being intended for Democrats, who didn't take over Congress until 2007.]

Before you jump the gun, he might be regarding to the canals that were built through the wetlands that are now dissapppearing. That project dates back to the '60's or '70's- when Dems controlled the Congress.

Not that I'm defending the guy, because, if I'm right, the guy is trying to blame today's Dems for the pork barrel spending of 40 years ago. Some evidence, huh?

The next line in that story is funny:

"All I can do to respond to those critics is, my job is to make America as safe as possible," he told reporters. "My job is to prevent those tragedies, such as the canal that was dug in New Orleans that brought the hurricane up and did more damage to New Orleans."

The New Orleans project was paid for with a congressional "earmark," funding that lawmakers slip into spending bills outside of the regular funding process.

The MRGO (which is what McCain should have been referring to) was finished in 1965. Maintenance of it is part of the Corps of Engineers budget. Its not an earmark, and I don't think it ever was. The author was trying to fill in the blanks for McCain, and couldn't help but fudge the facts.

I'm happy to read that! Thank You! :D

From Google News, both stories on the same page at the same time:

$38M deal reached for Minn. bridge collapse victims

Minnesota lawmakers reached agreement on a $38 million compensation package for victims of a deadly bridge collapse, culminating months of work to provide relief beyond the state's legal liability.

The deal struck in a joint committee of the House and Senate will offer everyone who was on the bridge up to $400,000, with an additional $12.6 million pool for the people who suffered the most severe injuries and losses. Thirteen people died in the Aug. 1 collapse, and 145 were hurt.
...

Clinton seeks gas tax vote, Obama calls it 'shell' game

..
Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs.
..
The dispute centered on a pair of taxes, 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline and 24.4 cents on a gallon of diesel. The money raised goes into a fund that pays for construction of highways and bridges.
..

Gas Taxes should have been raised a lot several years ago, to repair failing infrastructure, to finance Mass Transit and to discourage the use of gasoline.

Now - in crisis over infrastructure & high gas prices - in any way cutting or suspending those taxes would be criminal, and have very little benefit to the average American .. perhaps $30.

Old Billy Hussein @ 45:

There's a much more direct link between the bridge collapse and "crony capitalism." The NTSB released some pictures of failing portions of the bridge that were taken as part of an inspection in 2003. A competent firm would have immediately recognized a serious danger. The firm that did that inspection (and subsequent ones) was URS Group, a company run by Diane Feinstein's husband and full of lots of big Republican donors.

Competency isn't the criteria on which these contracts were decided. This is what happens when you let Senators sleep with lobbyists.

By the way, URS Group is also the folks who staged the mock hurricane practice in New Orleans called Hurricane Pam - IN 2004! If these people had their thumbs out of their buts they could have put together a recommendation list before Katrina, at least.

Public financing of elections would go a long way towards fxing this bullshit.

FYI The bridge not only failed the inspection; but, received one of the lowest safety scores in the nation.
FYI The Hurricane Pam exercise was cancelled, half way through, because of budget cut backs initiated by President Bush.

Damien @ 20:

If I'm not mistaken, isn't freeway/bridge infrastructure at least partially funded by the program he intends to personally defund to give everyone a "Gas Tax Holiday"?

We have a winner! Give the poster another $600 loan from China!!

Leslie [Hussein] @ 64:

MountainMan23 @ 63:

Now - in crisis over infrastructure & high gas prices - in any way cutting or suspending those taxes would be criminal, and have very little benefit to the average American .. perhaps $30.

That's $30 for the entire summer.

So, $600 "rebate" (loan on next year's taxes) and $30 for gas... I think that my vote is worth a H*LL of alot more than that.

It may well spark controversy. Rachel talked to one of the Mn House members on radio last night. Mn Gov. has said over and over not to rush to judge, yet he (R) HAS rushed to refute ANY state actions from his admin as causal factors. It is so dirty all around. I hope that investigators and Mn citizens speak up.

I live less than a mile from where the bridge used to be. I'm not sure McCain and the other republicans appreciate just how unconservative The Cities are, and how attentive the polity is here. People will remember this idiot's words come September. Rush Limbaugh is hoping for convention riots? More talk like this and he may get his wish, with a twist. (That is a prediction, not advocacy.)