We Were Warned…
DC Metro Trains Collide
It’s hard to see how the Bush administration could have been any clearer about the safety problems of the Washington D.C. Metro (commuter train) system: Railroad Accident Report, November 3, 2004. Regrettably, the Democrat dominated government of D.C. didn’t care.
Three years later Bush’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) tried again to have the dangerous conditions in that system fixed: Federal Investigators Question Metro’s Safety, (By Eric M. Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, January 9, 2007; Page A01) but by then Nancy Pelosi was in charge of the House (of Representatives) — which has ultimate authority over D.C. — and, apparently, had no interest in the lives and safety of citizens who, after all, aren’t part of her electoral constituency.
On January 20 of this year we got “hope and change” in the White House, but no new concern for the dangerous situation on the rails of the nation’s capital.
How many more have to die, Mr. President, how many more?
And before you assail me with a liberal hissy-fit over my interpretation of events, please show me a single factual error in this post. You see: This game can be played from both directions.