WHITE HOUSE POLITICIZES TRAGEDY, BLASTS REPUBLICANS FOR PROPOSED AMTRAK FUNDING CUTS

These Goofy Bastards were doing this before the investigation is done. What a bunch of Leftist Idiots. Now come to find out the train was doing over 100 mph. in an area that was 50 mph.Lets see what happens if you have a tractor trailer doing 70 mph when it enters an off ramp on the interstate. Now ask the liberal Obama ass kissing Idiots how that trillion dollar stimulus would prevent a rollover?? Transportation spending had nothing to do with this. What happened to the last trillion dollar Infrastructure bill?  This still happened.

The Amtrak passenger train crash last night has caused many political commentators and legislators to question budget cuts for infrastructure projects, as the news cycle has propelled a white hot political discussion on infrastructure spending.

At the White House, press secretary Josh Earnest was quick to point out during the daily press briefing that President Obama actually supported a nearly $1 billion increase in Amtrak funding while Republicans wanted to cut it.

“We’ve been very clear about what we we believe is the appropriate level of funding for Amtrak,” Earnest said, pointing to Obama’s budget proposal that would benefit the company.

“Republicans, unfortunately, are considering legislation on a committee level that would actually cut funding from Amtrak’s budget by, I believe, a quarter of a billion dollars per year.” he said.

Earnest added that he hoped that more Republicans would work with Democrats to find an appropriate level of funding for transportation spending.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/13/white-house-politicizes-tragedy-blasts-republicans-for-proposed-amtrak-funding-cuts/

NTSB: AMTRAK TRAIN GOING TWICE SPEED LIMIT PRIOR TO DERAILMENT

Using its verified Twitter account, the National Transportation Safety Board reported Wednesday afternoon that the Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday night in Philadelphia was moving at 100 miles per hour just prior to the derailment and crash that killed 7 and injured more than 200.

 —According to the other reports, 100 miles per hour is twice the speed limit at the point of the crash, which was along a sharp curve. Along with 238 passengers, there were 5 crewmembers aboard the train when it crashed at around 9;30 p.m. Tuesday night.

This news apparently caught the White House unaware because it came just hours after White House spokesman Josh Earnest exploited the tragedy to attack the GOP over proposed budget cuts to Amtrak.

Like the White House, before knowing all the facts, much of the mainstream media leapt to exploit the tragedy as a cynical means to increase the power and size of the federal government through infrastructure spending.

The media campaign for infrastructure spending, especially on CNN and MSNBC, lasted all of the morning and into the afternoon.

The media’s breathtaking lies of omission surrounding Amtrak’s funding that emanated from CNN to “Morning Joe” to The Washington Post to Vox, were so dishonest and glaring, Breitbart News created a list of 11 crucial pieces of information the media intentionally excluded from its attacks on Republicans and pleas for more federal spending.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/13/ntsb-amtrak-train-going-twice-speed-limit-prior-to-derailment/