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Listening to President Barack Obama’s speech today about infrastructure spending tells me that if Mr. Obama continues on this path, the road to the White House by any Republican will be long and hard. We all remember Senator Mitch McConnell’s direction to his party to make this president a one-termer.   Their idea was to do everything that they could to keep unemployment high and block every idea he supports.   They could not have been more wrong.   What this is showing voters is that even if unemployment numbers are high, blocking things that will help Americans or not proposing one job bill or doing anything that will benefit the majority; they too cannot be trusted to govern. The Republican party is not making the choice of enduring their party to the American public, they are showing that they cannot be trusted to govern and are willing to let this country fail apart just to try and prove a point about this administration.   Pundits are saying that this ...

According to an Associated Press article titled Chunk of Calif. coastal highway falls into Pacific “ Engineers on Thursday were working to figure out when they'll be able to reopen a stretch of California coastal highway that collapsed into the ocean, blocking traffic to the scenic Big Sur region.”   “A 40-foot section of Highway 1 crumbled just after 5 p.m. Wednesday following several days of rainy weather. The entire southbound lane is gone, and the soil under the northbound lane also was giving way.”   It should be well known that things like this happen over a number of years and nothing this dramatic occurs within a blink of an eye but it should also be known that there were indications long before the road collapsed.   Each individual with this knowledge passed it on and too no action which could have avoided this.   The real crime would have been if there had been lives lost because of it.   There is such a charge as negligence and every elected officia...