Thursday, February 23, 2012

Bridge to nowhere

  • Anyone in search of the famed "bridge to nowhere" need not search as far as Alaska but instead can look closer to home by simply trying to take a wheelchair from Springfield to West Springfield across the city's famed Memorial Bridge.
  • (Union-News & Sunday Republican)
  • One of the most overused and least well understood political attacks in modern memory is one that was levied against former Pennsylvania Sen.
  • (Ology)
  • There's a reason the vast majority of senators who run for president don't succeed: They can't explain themselves without getting lost in the weeds of Congress-speak.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • ADAMS COUNTY - The county has agreed to open a pedestrian and bike bridge built over the South Platte River that some citizens called the countys bridge to nowhere.
  • (9News)
  • In its Goa poll manifesto released on Monday, the Congress has promised to build a "bridge" over a stretch of dry, landlocked area of Neura, 20 kms from here.
  • (Daily Pioneer)
  • In fact, many folks who want to preserve what they call a bridge to nowhere are so incredulous it would be replaced, they say there must be another reason behind building a bigger one.
  • (Times Herald-Record)
  • Like Alaskas infamous Bridge to Nowhere, this boondoggle bridge may soon become a national symbol of excess at taxpayer expense in the coming election cycle. If this legislation, authored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.
  • (Stillwater Gazette)
  • No surprise. The two front runners did their best to make each other look their worst: While I was fighting to save the Olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere," Romney said to Santorum.
  • (WHDH.com)
  • Romney returned fire by criticizing the earmark process in general. "While I was fighting to save the Olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere," he said to Santorum. "You're misrepresenting the facts," responded Santorum.
  • (Mashable.com)

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