Former White House Chief of Staff and currently mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, whose city is rushing to be the next Detroit after decades of big government excesses, once said that a crisis was a terrible thing to waste since it allows you to get things done you couldn’t get done in a saner atmosphere. The Amtrak derailment outside Philadelphia is the latest case in point. Never mind that the Antrak train that crashed outside Philadelphia, killing seven, was being driven at 106 miles per hour around a curve that was designed for 50 or that the “positive train control” system (PTC) that would have overridden the operator to brake the train was in the pipeline to be installed. According to Democrats who believe money solves everything and that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was probably a Republican, it’s the fault of the Republicans. Democrats forget that President Obama promised us that our infrastructure problems were over the day he signed the...(Read Full Article)