August 6th, 2007 • 3:30 pmSen. Murphy: “Another Collapse Is Likely”
State Sen. Steve Murphy told Fox News that another bridge collapse is likely. (H/T: MDE) Here’s what Sen. Murphy said:
“We’re going to have to swallow the bitter pill, take the political hit and raise these revenues,” Murphy said, adding that another bridge collapse “is a likelihood, and we don’t want that.”
Sen. Murphy has a penchant for saying ridiculous things. Here’s my favorite Murphyism:
“I’m not trying to fool anybody,” said Sen. Steve Murphy, DFL-Red Wing, sponsor of the measure that would increase funding for roads and transit by $1.5 billion a year once it was fully implemented in the next decade. “There’s a lot of taxes in this bill.”
Here’s another ‘golden oldie’:
“Everything is fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out, and the governor just poked out my eye by vetoing this bill,” said Sen. Steve Murphy, DFL-Red Wing. “I think that is a clear indication he wants a train wreck at the end of session. He wants the Legislature to fail, and he wants to blame us.”
Taking anything Sen. Murphy says seriously is foolish. Saying that Sen. Murphy has a penchant for hyperbole is akin to saying that Al Gore uses hyperbole or that the Clintons are expert spinmeisters. In other words, these are the rule, not the exception.
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So sad. Your posts are like the rantings of a deranged monkey screaming that the sky is green. When you can’t face the facts you ridicule the person.
You should read “What’s the matter with Kansas” to see how your Fox-news-viewing habits have filtered out actual facts and been replaced by outright craziness.
Here’s a fact. Your Bush-republican tax cuts combined with your bush-republican desire to funnel as much money as possible to cronies have seriously weakened the infrastructure of our country.
If anti-infrastructure people like you were in power years ago we would have never eliminated Polio. Never reversed “tragedy of the commons” issues with delivery of electricity and water and other infrastructure that is critical for a successful country.
But it doesn’t matter what facts you are presented with - people like you will just ridicule any person who tries to tell you the sky is not green. Who will discount everything that a person says because they aren’t blessed by a Bush crony. And that’s just pathetic.
Comment by Bob the Mason • 07Aug2007 @ 3:16 am
Bob, Try using your brain once in awhile. As near as I can tell, Sen. Murphy is grandstanding. That’s why he conditioned his statement by saying it’s likely that another bridge will collapse. What proof did he offer to back up his opinion? That’s right. He didn’t.
The truth of it is that Steve Murphy’s priorities are screwed up. His ‘increase taxes first’ position, backed up by his lack of advocacy for fixing roads & bridges, say that he wasn’t concerned about bridge repair.
That’s why I said that he doesn’t have any credibility. That’s why I’ll stand by my statements.
Comment by Gary Gross • 07Aug2007 @ 9:14 am