So NOW infrastructure improvement is GOOD?

[CTyankee]

Really, Joe Scar? Oh, now you're all for a rebuilding of our railroad tracks. Well, where were you when Obama proposed the American Jobs Act? Were you one of those republicans who essentially said "Why should I care about railroads? That's problem for that awful northeastern corridor. Real Americans want their cars and the open road!"

You effin' repukes killed the Jobs Bill. Sure, it was flawed but even so, you get to work to get changes made and spend the money to make it happen.

NOWHERE today did I hear one person talk about how the republicans mocked and killed the Jobs bill.

What a bunch of LOSERS!

[malaise]

1. I did laugh

Dishonesty thy name is Joe Scum

[CTyankee]

3. Yup. Like we've forgotten that travesty. It didn't happen that long ago...2011...

I guess Joe thinks his viewers are a bunch of dopes with no memory...

Man, the piety around that table this morning was gag inducing...

[malaise]

5. I could not believe what we were watching

Unfuggingbelievable. Joe lies so often that his body must be full of sores.

[SheilaT]

37. Unfortunately, too many people have no memory.

A huge problem with all journalism is that stories usually occur in a vacuum. There's rarely anything about what came before, and even less often any follow up.

[AngryOldDem]

7. I could hardly get my jaw off the floor when I heard his rant.

But that's good old Joe for ya.

[malaise]

10. Seriously he is shameless

jaw-dropping is right. I do love the self-righteous look complete with the disgusting glasses and the hair which appears to have thickened as if it were on hormones

[TheBlackAdder]

38. SELF-INTEREST: Those TRAINS TRANSPORT many of JoeScar's POLITICAL GUESTS to HIS SHOW!

[Fred Sanders]

2. When something that bad happens that concerns white men, it must be fixed, pronto!

FFS, how long is it now since President Obama almost begged the Republicans to pass infrastructure funding?

The criminal always denies the crime, no one is ever guilty...how is the GOP different than a common felon?

[malaise]

6. DC to New York and Boston corridor

Of course, any of them could have been on that train. That's the route of the political class.

[AngryOldDem]

4. Yeah...that was rich, wasn't it?

The shock! The outrage!

Never mind the fact that Joe and his ilk are a main reason why our infrastructure is for shit and getting worse everyday.

Beyond disgusting.

[bullwinkle428]

8. The US spends 1.7% of GDP on infrastructure. Europe spends 5%. China spends 9%!

Bill DeBlasio brought this up when flipped on "Morning Joe" for a few minutes this morning.

[CTyankee]

9. I gave up before deBlasio came on...will have to watch it online...what did Joe say to him?

[bullwinkle428]

29. I only listened briefly, but from what I can recall, Scar had very little to argue him

on after he brought up this particular factoid!

[NewJeffCT]

28. What else did he say?

DeBlasio, I mean. I have to leave for work before he came on.

China has some terrific high speed trains - I took one a few years ago and put a cup of water on a small ledge next to the window and the cup hardly moved most of the trip. (some of their local trains need a lot of work - but, they have the local trains at least)

[bullwinkle428]

30. They got into how DeBlasio and the Oklahoma City mayor were working together,

and while the infrastructure needs were very different for the two cities, they were in very much agreement that serious money was needed to make the necessary improvements in each situation.

[NewJeffCT]

31. Thanks

And, I'm guessing that the OKC mayor is probably a Republican?

The stimulus package from 2009 helped a lot, but not enough. It should have included WAY more infrastructure funding. If China can drop $500 or $600 billion in infrastructure spending when their economy is just slowing down, how much could the US have used when our economy was in the tank and fading like it was in 2008?

[malaise]

11. Dems should be screaming out loud this morning

Instead it's ReTHUGs bawling about infrastructure and pretending they didn't refuse to budge for the last six years and before that.

[CTyankee]

18. I patiently await that...

[blm]

12. Scar was too busy helping elect his GOP cronies voting NO to infrastructure/jobs bills.

You can't find ONE Republican in DC who sincerely cares about this nation's infrastructure or its working class families.

[CTyankee]

16. that's right. It was before the 2012 election and all the thugs thought about was denying any

success to him. They were afraid that jobs would be created and that would be a big plus mark for Obama...

[blm]

34. Scar(R-DeadIntern) would NEVER admit that SIMPLE TRUTH.

.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Japanese bullet trains

Japanese Linear Shinkansen train. the 603 km per hour achieved = World speed record

Bullet train using a GPS clocking speed and vibration

We need to catch up with the modern world and think of the jobs

[ProfessorGAC]

21. The Coin Thing

When i was on both the TGV and the bullet train, i had coffee on the little tray. (Yeah, first class ticket in Japan, 2nd class on TGV).

We were going 250 mph and there was barely a ripple on the surface of my coffee.

Pretty impressive.

[Ichingcarpenter]

23. I've ridden Amtrak on the west coast a lot

waiting for the freight trains so we could go maybe 55 mph and the bumpy nosy ride going clingy clack feeling every weld.


I can't imagine a wreck though going that fast on the Japanese train.

[tridim]

14. What is this about? Just Morning Joe blabbering or did something happen?

[dreamnightwind]

15. Just the usual train wreck - eom

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Did You Intend That Pun?

If so, well done.

[dreamnightwind]

39. indeed, & thx

[CTyankee]

19. Joe went down the memory hole. Now he's the big infrastructure guy, but before he was um, not...

[zentrum]

17. Republican policies

…really harm, maim and kill people. It's not just a matter of different approaches. Their "approaches" really hurt us. For generations.

[daleanime]

20. K&R.....

[Enthusiast]

24. All Republicans lie. It's what they do.

[abelenkpe]

25. A jobs bill to repair infrastructure

Should require companies to hire Americans and pay well with benefits. Isn't that what republicans always balk at?

[NewJeffCT]

27. After Katrina

I think Bush and other Republicans wanted to repeal the law that requires contractors to pay their employees the local prevailing wages. (Forgot what the law is called?)

[subterranean]

32. The Davis-Bacon Act.

Yes, I remember that, too. The Bush administration lavished billions on contractors like Halliburton, but of course chose to save money on the backs of workers.

They did reinstate the provision after a couple of months, under pressure from "moderate" Republicans (apparently a few still existed back then).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/26/AR2005102601706.html

[NewJeffCT]

36. I'm sure many of them dream

of importing tens of thousands of workers from China and paying them like $3/day and then congratulating themselves because they only made $2/day in China.

[AngryOldDem]

33. I agree, but common construction wage is now under attack in a lot of places.

It was just repealed here in Indiana, after being on the books for 80-some years.

So now, with unions gutted and fair wages virtually a thing of the past, expect Republicans to be all for improving infrastructure. It can be done dirt cheap with quality to match. What a deal!

Point remains that people like Joe Scarborough have no right to their righteous indignation at times like this. It's obscene.

[NewJeffCT]

26. I've heard a few Republicans mention infrastructure spending

since they took over the Senate. Not many, but a few.

My thought was that if we do actually spend some money on infrastructure & create jobs and grow the economy, they'd be able to say, "see, we take over Congress and the economy grows!"

Even though it's a Democratic idea, Republicans don't exactly have a "shame" gene.

[tomsaiditagain]

35. Wall Street runs the show

We the people are in the way.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. Surprised he didn't say all the money went towards food stamps.

[Democrats_win]

41. Blame the selfish GOP!

To support their political agenda ahead of America's interests, the GOP refused to help Obama with any of his job legislation. At that time, the economy was slow and the advantages of working on infrastructure at that time were immense. Now, the roads are full of cars, the trains are full and working on infrastructure would be more expensive and inconvenient. Sad that the GOP once again did the wrong thing.

[Duppers]

42. I hate that lying pos so much

I can never watch him. May as well tune into Fochs News.