There have been some chunderous things said as the dust from the fallen river bridge is still settling by some who don’t mind using a few bodies as construction material for building their lefty idea of a better future. (See here and here and here and here, for instance.)

But this has to take the cake. Jesse Jackson in all his glory, ladies and gentlemen. (h/t: Flopping Aces)

A 40-year-old bridge collapses into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Levees give way in New Orleans at the foot of the Mississippi. An 83-year-old steam pipe produces an eruption that terrorizes Manhattan. As our infrastructure literally crumbles beneath our feet, America is building the largest embassy compound in the world in Iraq — an area larger than the Pentagon — to manage a war now estimated to cost $1 trillion.

What happened at both ends of the Mississippi and is happening in cities across the country are tragedies, but they aren’t random accidents. They are the direct price of the right wing in power. Scornful of government, intent on cutting taxes and slashing spending, they systematically have shorted public investment in our basic infrastructure — in bridges and roads, in rail lines and air systems, in parks and schools.

I had better stop typing right now before I write something that will get me in trouble.