REVrund Jackson

It was only a matter of time before the liberal mouthpieces blamed the Minnesota catastrophe on the right. The sanctimonious bullshit artist Jesse Jackson had this to offer:

A 40-year-old bridge collapses into the Mississippi in Minneapolis. Levees give way in New Orleans at the foot of the Mississippi. An 83-year-old steam pipe produces an eruption that terrorizes Manhattan. As our infrastructure literally crumbles beneath our feet, America is building the largest embassy compound in the world in Iraq - an area larger than the Pentagon - to manage a war now estimated to cost $1 trillion.

What happened at both ends of the Mississippi and is happening in cities across the country are tragedies, but they aren't random accidents. They are the direct price of the right-wing in power. Scornful of government, intent on cutting taxes and slashing spending, they systematically have shorted public investment in our basic infrastructure - in bridges and roads, in rail lines and air systems, in parks and schools.

In nearly all public works, whether it be levees, bridges or steam failures, the bureaucracy's mode of operation is "run to failure". New money always flows to the new projects. Based on my engineering experience, RTF leads to inefficient use of resources and capital. The only investment that politicians believe in is vote buying. The head of the House Transportation Committee is from Minnesota, I would bet money that there were no earmarks set up for bridge upgrades.

• Jesse Jackson is such an asshole, thus my current winner of the golden halo toilet seat.