After all, the problem seems to be a design flaw from 1964, not anything the Bush administration did. I guess that there was just too much time and money being spent on Great Society programs to do the job right.

Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed here a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising safety concerns for other bridges around the country, federal officials said today.

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In Minneapolis, state transportation department officials seemed stunned by the sudden focus on the bridge’s gusset plates, which are the steel connectors used to hold together the girders on the truss of a bridge. On this bridge, completed in 1967, there would have been hundreds of them, officials here said.

Maybe the same liberals who blamed the Crusade Against Jihadists for the bridge collapse and demanded immediate surrender so we can focus on repairing infrastructure will show some intellectual integrity and demand a decrease in social spending for that purpose -- after all, the Johnson-era programs have shown much less success than the Surge in Iraq in accomplishing their goal.

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