Blaming President Bush for Hurricanes and Bridge Collapses

I've been waiting for the moonbatosphere to blame President Bush for the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. I mean, if the President was the cause of Hurricane Katrina, surely a man-made bridge collapsing is his fault, too!

Well, they're getting close. Look at the griping at Shakespeare's Sister, the whiners complaining because the President didn't haul out a laundry list of ineffective, feel-good projects the federal government can throw taxpayer money at to make Minnesotans feel better about the fact that their state didn't spend enough money on infrastructure. Yes, yes, I know it's all President Bush's fault. He should have been out on the bridge with a jackhammer fixing it himself. After all, we can be certain that the problems with this bridge didn't start until after January 20, 2001.

Why, the whiners at SS are even complaining that White House spokesman Tony Snow is "pre-emptively shifting blame" for the disaster. Um, no, moonbats. Pointing out that the state is responsible for fixing roads within the state is pointing out unpleasant truths.

But is it worse to actually whine that the President spoke about the tragedy and didn't start passing out the goodies, or just play the part of the concern troll and wring one's hands that Snow's comments "might have been taken out of context here"?

Actually, the most disgusting complaint comes in this post at Comments from Left Field, where the author complains that the President just didn't go on and on and on about how terrible the tragedy in Minnesota was. No, he had the audacity to spend most of the speech talking about what he had intended to speak about: the partisanship and lack of action by the Democratically-controlled Congress and that so little legislation has come out of it (and none of it acceptable to avoid a presidential veto).

Oh, the horrors! The shame! How dare he offer brief condolences, explain what the federal government was doing, and then go one with his speech! Didn't he realize that he should have come in sackcloth and ashes to show his remorse?

Come on, moonbats. If you really think the federal response is inadequate or too slow, here's a thought: donate your own money to the Red Cross.

UPDATE: It turns out that the structural defects which lead to the bridge's collapse were uncovered in 1990. For the record, that's 11 years before President Bush became president. He wasn't even governor of Texas then. But don't worry. It's still the fault of Republicans.

Harry Reid says President Bush was distracted by the war in Iraq and that's why the bridge collapsed.