The “president” is showing his leadership and clear understanding of the realities that are facing Americans by stating that he will oppose any new taxes to help our aged infrastructure. They have not even fished out all of the dead of the Mississippi yet, and Bush is showing that he really does not give a crap.

From the New York Times (bolds are mine)

President Bush said today that he would be opposed to any steps by Congress to increasing the gasoline tax to raise revenues for national bridge repairs in the wake of last week’s bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

And at his last major news conference before his summer vacation, he lashed out at Democrats in Congress by questioning their priorities and motives on everything from taxes to their accusations of contempt against Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

“Before we raise taxes, which could affect economic growth, I would strongly urge the Congress to examine how they set priorities,” Mr. Bush said.

“My suggestion would be that they revisit the process by which they spend gasoline money in the first place,” he added, accusing lawmakers of focusing on their own parochial concerns — or plum projects — above such national concerns as bridge conditions.

Representative Don Young, Republican of Alaska and a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has raised the possibility of increasing the gasoline tax as a way to pay for bridge repairs throughout the country in the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, which raised new concerns about potential problems with a number of the nation’s bridges. A plan being considered by the House committee would index the current gasoline tax for inflation, which would result in an increase of roughly 5 cents.

So the idea came from a Republican, and Bush says no. The price of gas is outrages, and if they added more tax it would force people to cut deeper into their already tight budgets, and that might slow down the record profits oil companies are seeing. So Bush’s policy is now on record, he is okay with Americans having a bridge vanish from underneath them, because the oil companies are making billions!

Today Bush came out and said some phodo-sympathetic comments about the federally built, federally funded, bridge crashing into the Mississippi River. He then moved to chiding the Democrats while dead Americans are floating down stream, for not passing spending bills (he begs you to forget that the last Republican Congress did not pass any of them to leave a mess for the newly elected Democrats). He had the balls to lay into the Democrats for over spending (on the bills they have not passed (I am not sure how you do that)), meanwhile an American city is pulling dead people out of a river because of a huge funding cuts in maintaining our nations infrastructure.

There’s only one way to pay for all this new federal spending without running up the deficit, and that is to raise your taxes. A massive tax hike is the last thing the American people need. The plan I put forward would keep your taxes low and balance the budget within five years, and that is the right path for our country.

No you retard in chief, because of the neglect of this nations infrastructures over the last 20 years it is going to take huge amounts of cash to fix it, that means we are going to be forced to raise taxes. Or wait, I got a better idea, why don’t we stop this failed policy in Iraq and pave the streets in fucking gold!