Comments on: MUST READ: “KATHERINE KERSTEN: UNTIL I-35W DISASTER, OBERSTAR’S FUNDING FOCUS WASN’T ON BRIDGES”

By: Minneapolis Moderate

Minneapolis Moderate — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:22:04 +0000

Riddle me this: Senator Steve Murphy predicted another bridge will collapse in Minnesota.

Why didn’t the all-knowing Senator predict the flooding in SE MN, so those people could have saved their belongings?

I bet Pawlenty and Molnau are to blame for the flooding too…

Back to the bridge: design flaws, several days of unusually hot weather, and tons of equipment and materials for road repairs on the bridge – don’t you think those factors – and not the failure to raise the gas tax – caused the bridge to collapse?

I believe Oberstar is in ober his head.

By: Woodbury Conservative

Woodbury Conservative — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:24:30 +0000

Sounds like Rabidturd is still using the old Lib talking points manual – what a loser.

By: Dave of the VRWC

Dave of the VRWC — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:11:11 +0000

“Maybe they donâ€™t have enough money because the military keeps paying thousands for .19 washers and bundles of money for Halliburtonâ€™s fireplace.”

Actually the huge charge was fraud that the Bush administration caught through an audit and the people who did it are going to jail. what the fuck is your problem with that Rabid?

Haliburton is making very little return on their investment in Iraq, around 3%. And they have lost around 60 employees due to murder in Iraq. Rabid, if you ran a division of my business and only made a 3% return, I would fire your leftist ass so fast…..

By: Drew Emmer

Drew Emmer — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:32:02 +0000

Oberstar is a career politician. Time to be Overstar. Thank you for your years of service, and farewell.

The “raise the gas tax 5 cents or God help you” line made the national news. Nice work Jim.

By: jim fisher

jim fisher — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:24:04 +0000

Rabid “Why does W keep jacking up the national debt?” If you check your facts, you`ll see that the deficet has gone down each year since the Bush tax cuts were enacted. That`s down boy, down.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:07:12 +0000

***I see from a separate article that John Kline voted 100% against pork and Michele Bachmann voted 96%. Even Ramstad was at 84%. No Dem was better than 2%. Does that tell you something? ***

Yeah – it tells me that Kline, et al were ‘FOR’ pork, before they were ‘AGAINST’ pork.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:55:16 +0000

Rabid, we spend $3 trillion a year. Out of the $3 trillion, less than $500 billion goes to defense. Where is the other $2.5 trillion go?

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:35:59 +0000

Rabid… man, you’re dumb.

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:35:42 +0000

Rabid… man your dumb.

By: Rabid

Rabid — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:30:34 +0000

If that’s the case Chestnut, why does W keep jacking up the national debt? What are we at 7,8,9 trillion? Maybe they don’t have enough money because the military keeps paying thousands for .19 washers and bundles of money for Halliburton’s fireplace.

By: wtm

wtm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:17:24 +0000

Bridges and roads are critical infrastructure needs. Bicycle trails and collectivized transportation systems are not critical infrastructure needs. There is not a lack of money for critical infrastructure, just a lack of priorities and common sense. God help us, with these Democrat morons in charge.

By: Homer S.

Homer S. — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:50:07 +0000

“No Chestnut, women are supposed to be in the kitchen baking cookies…”

Mmmm, chestnut cookies….

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:40:09 +0000

The funding’s there Ulysses. Theres more than enough funding. There’s more damn money flowing through Washtington and St. Paul than gov’t knows what to do with. That’s probably why stupid liberals seem to insist that it be spent on everything except what it should be spent on. They prefer bike trails and butterfly museums to bridges.

Nice try, shit for brains.

By: Ulysses

Ulysses — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:16:02 +0000

I see you are all squezing your eyes shut really hard really tight, imagining all the perfidies of the evil liberals, hoping it will do something.

I see them opening up and…

Crap. The collapsed bridge and the thirteen dead people are still there. I’m afraid to tell you all, but it seems that, as in funding things, repairing bridges and raising the dead takes a little more than invoking the evilness of liberals. You all keep trying.

Meanwhile, I hear the grownups are wondering how to fund a bridge that will stay up past November 2012, even if it isn’t up by next summer’s convention.

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:05:23 +0000

DFLers are the most rabid racists and bigots on the planet.

By: Dave of the VRWC

Dave of the VRWC — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:11:14 +0000

“No Chestnut, women are supposed to be in the kitchen baking cookies according to your GOP buddy Allen Quist.”

Remember when the Democrats made buttons that said “Quistians” on it, with a slash drawn through it? I do? And wbo says DFLers aren’t anti-Christian bigots…..

By: Dave of the VRWC

Dave of the VRWC — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:09:17 +0000

Well, we have the 4 lane highway to no where that MinnDot said we don’t want…that we need that money for existing facilities, but Oberstar said we’re going to build it because it’s in his district.

Yesterday read that the longest paved bike trail in the nation is in his district (have to fact check that), paid for with highway funds (doesn’t need to be fact checked).

Oh, but Sen Klobachar (aka, Sen Barbie) said the bridge collapse is all Bush’s fault.

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:48:07 +0000

Jakob, according to liberals, women are nothing but sperm catchers to be sent to the baby grinder if they’re stupid enough to get pregnant.

Kiss off.

By: Lassie

Lassie — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:08:46 +0000

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. I hope this article is in the paper handed out at the State Fair today. Broadcast it everywhere, folks.

By: Jakob Johnson

Jakob Johnson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:56:42 +0000

No Chestnut, women are supposed to be in the kitchen baking cookies according to your GOP buddy Allen Quist.

By: FRJ

FRJ — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:25:39 +0000

The typical rants from the libs will appear on the editorial page tomorrow morning. Her article was well thought out and well written.

What do you expect from a career politician like Oberstar. He is a dinosaur just like a lot of those other clowns who have been in Washington since Abraham Lincoln was in office. This kind of pork is a problem that must be addressed but you can be assured these asshats will not do anything about it.

I see from a separate article that John Kline voted 100% against pork and Michele Bachmann voted 96%. Even Ramstad was at 84%. No Dem was better than 2%. Does that tell you something? We need a whole lot more people who will vote against pork and prioritize the money we send to the Federal Government.

By: wtm

wtm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:15:52 +0000

Apparently, in Oberstar’s world, unless northern Minnesota has lots and lots of federally-subsidized bike paths to use, that region of the state is “chopped liver.”

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:50:56 +0000

It’s no wonder liberals hate Katherine. She’s smart, informed and presents a powerful, well-reasoned argument. … That and women aren’t supposed to be conservative. They’d hate her even more if she were black.

By: Gary Gross

Gary Gross — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:48:58 +0000

Not only did I read Kathy's article, I posted on it here.I titled my post "What Priorities?"

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:04:51 +0000

Oberstar’s focus was on Oberstar. All of the pork barrel projects he earmarked in his district hurt the rest of Minnesotans driving over outdated roads and bridges. Oberstar’s pork not only takes federal money away from more urgent projects, it takes state money away too. Because you have to use state matching funds in order to get those federal dollars in the first place.

If Oberstar believes his gas tax will be temporary, he has another thing coming. Our 1/2 cent sales tax increase under Arne Carlson was supposed to be temporary. Sixteen years later, we’re still paying for it.