NPR Report: Brent Spence Bridge needs repaired defies Drudge Report it doesn't!

[1776Forever]

NPR
Obama Stresses Need For Infrastructure Repairs
Sept. 22, 2011

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/22/140717209/obama-stresses-need-for-infrastructure-improvements

To make the point that America's infrastructure is in need of repair and the federal government should do it, President Obama traveled to the Brent Spence Bridge. It runs over the Ohio River, and it connects House Speaker John Boehner's Ohio to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's Kentucky. Melissa Block talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro for more.

Transcript:

MELISSA BLOCK, host: And I'm Melissa Block.

President Obama talked about bridge-building today, literally. And to do that, he picked a spot that takes a symbolic dig at his political opponents. The president stood in front of the Brent Spence Bridge, which spans the Ohio River. At one end, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's home state of Kentucky. The other end is a few minutes' drive from House Speaker John Boehner's district in Ohio. The bridge itself is described by locals and experts as functionally obsolete.

President Obama says there are thousands of sites like it across the country where unemployed construction workers could get back on the job.

NPR's Ari Shapiro joins us from Cincinnati. And, Ari, tell us more about the significance of this bridge.

ARI SHAPIRO: Well, as you mentioned, locally it connects Ohio to Kentucky. But nationally, it really connects the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. About four percent of the country's gross domestic product crosses the bridge every day. It was designed to carry 85,000 vehicles today, but today it gets more than twice that. The shoulders have been turned into traffic lanes, so when there's an accident, traffic backs up for a mile or more.

President Obama argues that upgrading bridges like this one is a short-term investment for the country's long-term benefit. And he says if we don't spend this kind of money now, the country will pay more down the road in lost productivity.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. It's the subliminal fear of FDR ,they think it will be the same Success..

for the masses , Before another disaster caused by the wealth and their Sycophants.Oh yeah ,and Boner is what the republican party has become ,Phony.

[Cool Logic]

2. "The bridge itself is described by locals and experts as functionally obsolete."

That's odd, for 160,000 cars cross it every day.

[greymattermom]

3. two interstates

Both 71 and 75 cross this bridge. The lane changing needed to get onto the correct interstate on the Ohio side is confusing. The view of Cincinnati from Covington is fantastic, though.

[The Straight Story]

4. There have been chunks of concrete that have fallen off of it before (nt)

[emcguffie]

5. COuld someone please translate for me?

What does "Brent Spence Bridge needs repaired defies Drudge Report it doesn't!" mean?

[1776Forever]

6. Here is the Drudge Report article.........

http://www.drudge.com/news/148579/obama-touts-jobs-plan-ohio-bridge

Obama touts jobs plan at Ohio bridge that won't qualify

"You know all those rusting bridges that President Obama wants to spend billions more dollars repairing to allegedly stimulate the economy?

He's headed out to one today which he's described as a "bridge that needs repair between Ohio and Kentucky that's on one of the busiest trucking routes in North America." It is on a busy trucking route, spanning the Ohio River between Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati.

It's the Brent Spence Bridge. It doesn't really need repairs. It's got decades of good life left in its steel spans. It's just overloaded. The bridge was built to handle 85,000 cars and trucks a day, which seemed like a lot back during construction in the Nixon era."

............

Loads of remarks on Right Wing radio have spoke about this all day long!

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. I actually read it on the Los Angeles Times website yesterday.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/obama-jobs-plan-brent-spence-bridge-cincinnati.html

And, I've never even heard of the Drudge Retort.

[1776Forever]

9. Drudge Report is a big on-line Right Wing media magnet that throws out all kind of crap

that is spewed out daily by Rush, Hannity and many more! If you listen you will hear it referred to on other news organizations as a good source of information (most not all truth). We have a man named Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati WLW 700 radio station that blasted President Obama's speech yesterday at the Brent Spence Bridge with remarks from Drudge. Cunningham is a real piece of work and has a Fox News Show now. Go figure!

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Why do you keep using "Drudge Report" when referencing a site called "Drudge ReTORT"?

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. Yeah I didn't think you'd step up to the plate on that one...

[joshcryer]

7. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I was having such a hard time understanding it!

[emcguffie]

12. I think maybe unintelligible subjects have become the norm.

People don't even pay attention.

I wouldn't be surprised if a completely unintelligible subject line didn't get more people to click on it! out of curiosity, I mean. "What is that?" Click.

I still can't figure out what that was even trying to mean. Oh, well.