11 years ago, Obama came to the Ohio River, fussily shook hands with the construction workers now probably sporting MAGA hats and promised to rebuild the Brent Spence Bridge.
“Mr. McConnell, help us rebuild this bridge,” Obama declared with his back to the bridge. “Help us rebuild America. Help us put this country back to work. Pass this jobs bill right away.” The ‘jobs bill’ in question was the American Jobs Act which had as much to do with American jobs as Biden’s infrastructure plan has to do with infrastructure.
Obama’s $447 billion bill plowed a fortune into green energy to benefit Democrat special interests and mega-donors. It had no money on tap for the Brent Spence Bridge which, as Obama’s spokesman explained, “is symbolic.”
Symbolic being a fancy way of saying a blatant lie.
Three years after Obama’s visit, his transportation secretary refused to provide any assistance to rebuild the bridge. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who has since joined Lyft as a top executive, promised that if Congress passed Obama’s latest $302 billion boondoggle, there might be money for the Brent Spence Bridge. And Lucy might not pull away the football.
But no matter how many billions flowed to green energy pork, the bridge stayed the same.
A decade after Obama declared the bridge “functionally obsolete”, I rode over it on an early weekday morning. The bridge was crowded, but it was not falling down.
Now, Biden showed up at CNN’s Cincinnati Town Hall touting his $2 trillion infrastructure bill, which spends $115 billion on infrastructure and $174 billion on electric cars, along with a ton of other welfare state pork, waving the Brent Spence Bridge once again as his talking point.
“The individual elements of this plan to make sure we’re going to fix that damn bridge here that is going into Kentucky,” Biden rambled to a tiny hand picked audience of sympathizers.
That “damn bridge” was supposed to be fixed 20 years ago.
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