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MN bridge collapse due to design failure?

Someone call Ed Schultz and let him in on the disappointing news: the bridge collapse was NOT Bush’s fault! From the Old Gray Hag:

Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed here a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising safety concerns for other bridges around the country, federal officials said today.

The Federal Highway Administration swiftly responded by urging all states to take extra care with how much weight they place on bridges when sending construction crews to work on bridges. Crews were doing work on the deck of the Interstate 35W bridge when it gave way, hurling rush-hour traffic into the Mississippi River and killing at least five people.
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If there was a design error in the 1960s, failure to identify it before the bridge collapse indicates a problem with the federal inspection program, said Thomas M. Downs, who was the associate administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 1978 to 1980.

If only that Chimpy McHitlerburton hadn’t been partying in college or flying around in the Texas Air National Guard, he could have done something back in the late ’60s and early ’70s about that bridge. Heck, he didn’t even do anything as governor of Texas about the Minnesota bridge in the 1990′s! He’s got 40 years of blood on his hands from this catastrophe!

For those of you on the left, the prior paragraph was sarcasm.

August 9, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized