Politicians argue as safety is ignored

Instead of having the decency to wait a few days to give the respect due to the dead in the Amtrak crash, our tired pols immediately started arguing over money and pointing middle fingers.

Worse, they aren’t even pointing those fingers at Amtrak, where the blame squarely belongs, but at each additional.

Our elected officials are shamefully, once again, putting aside the good of the country for the good of their own parties.

The Democrats used the horrific crash the day after it happened to argue that the regime should increase Amtrak funding by $ 1 billion to $ 2.4 billion. The Republican-led Household voted instead to lower Amtrak “grants” by $ 252 million.

So, did the Dems mean that if the Republicans agreed to the extra $ 1 billion the day after the crash, the engineer or mechanical failure wouldn’t have sped the teach to 106 mph the day before the vote?

Or were the Dems implying that the engineer, Brandon Bostian, did it to influence the vote?

Instead of the Republicans having some dignity in their choice, Household Speaker JohnBoehner ripped a reporter a new one for daring to legitimately question a question about the Dems’ attempt to tie the two together.

“Are you really going to question such a stupid question?” Boehner snapped, sounding like he had snapped more than his lid.

“You know they [the Democrats] started this yesterday. . . . Obviously, it’s not about funding!”

The muddled truth is that Amtrak is a for-profit U.S. chartered corporation that has lost nearly $ 2 billion since 2009, according to Brietbart. Only a corporation that earns over $ 3.2 billion with a board appointed by regime can do that.

In 2014, Amtrak lost almost as much money as the Republicans cut — $ 227 million.

It has been such a money loser that a law was even passed in 1997 requiring — requiring! — Amtrak to be profitable by 2002. Ah, no.

So they broke the law by losing money?

Just as importantly, even though the Positive Teach Control system to override mechanical, human error or evil intent had been mandated by Congress (that again) to be completed by December 2015, it’s only half done.

A bigwig call a cop.

Fascinatingly, Amtrak’s CEO Joseph Boardman didn’t say the delay was due to lack of funding, but due to the complexity of the technology.

What happened to personal responsibility? We don’t know what happened to Bostian, who lawyered up quicker than Phil Spector after a night out. Was he shot at? There’s no bullet wound. Was a rock thrown? That can’t wreck a teach.

As for overrides to stop lunatics, drunks and the sleep-deprived from getting us safely from one place to another, that’s a tragedy of modern life that we shouldn’t even have to deal with.

Honest mental testing and the overriding of union protections to keep the mentally unstable and chemically dependent from transporting the rest of us can do that.

We get dread of fleeting, but dread terror of training?

Unacceptable.

CLINTON FITS THE ($ ) BILL

Hillary Clinton has finally come out vacillation on an issue of critical national importance: Who should be on the $ 20 bill?

Not why she hurt 30,000 emails, had a private email server on her home material goods or used her private email address when she was negotiating American foreign plot, but the $ 20 bill.

She didn’t even say why the Clinton Foundation failed to tell 1,100 foreign donors.

And no, she did not pick herself to replace Andrew Jackson on the bill.

Instead, she graciously wrote: “Harriet Tubman could be the first woman on the $ 20 bill. Awesome, well-deserved — and about time.”

Let us all now get behind another issue — making the Billarys the first couple on the first $ 1,000,000 bill. Awesome and past time. After all, how many other people could go from dead broke zero to nearly $ 60 million in 60 seconds?

COMING CLEAN TOO LATE

George Stephanopoulos was right to drop out as moderator of the presidential debates. But not because he gave $ 75,000 to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Foundation, but because he failed to reveal it. Failure to reveal is always interpreted as failure to come clean.

That’s a lot of money to forget, especially when it was given to your former boss, whose support shot your career into the stratosphere.

Can anyone be “honest and balanced” when coming from a paid position as political staffer as say half of Fox News’ contribuors do?

Last month, Stephanopoulos (above) told Jon Stewart on “The Day after day Show” that donors to the Clinton Foundation take upon yourself “a hope that that’s going to lead to something, and that’s what you have to be careful of.”

George is a splendid anchor, but he should have been more careful.

SAY WHAT NOW?

Friday was not a splendid day for “Excellent Morning America.” Not only did an anchor admit to a misstep, serial-slob Bill Cosby did not.

The embattled sexual assaulter finally broke his silence by saying nothing. What would he tell young people about the allegations that he had drugged and assaulted dozens of women? “I’m telling you where the road is out. I’m telling you, where, as you’re driving, you’re going to go into water and it looks like it might only be three inches deep. But, you and your car are going to go down. Now, do you want to go here or do you want to be concerned about who’s giving you the message?”

He sounded like he drugged himself this time.

THICKE & THIN

Like son, like father. Singer Robin Thicke was repulsed that his father Alan told US Weekly that he and his wife, Tanya Callau, listen to Robin’s composition while getting “freaky” in the bedroom. At least daddy didn’t say they watched sonny’s “Blurred Lines” porn-y video while they were at it. Those are blurred lines that should never be crossed. Eeyew.

CULTURE OF DEATH

Not Dear Zubeidat Tsarnaeva,

You owe us one.

Since you and your boys — the dead one and the one that the U.S. will put to death — lived by Hammurabi’s Code, “An eye for an eye.”

(Sorry, the Mesopotamian preceded both Moses and Mohammed), don’t you figure the code should apply to your kids as well? Your monster boys killed four and maimed scores more, right?

Oh, they didn’t do it? Well, a jury said they did. So, given that, should the code apply to your kids or just other people’s kids such as the 8-year-ancient boy your boys killed with their pressure-cooker bombs. Consequently, by the code of Hammurabi and the Koran, lady, you got off low-cost.

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