Harry Reid Never Drives Around Here? (about, should)

[JD984]

If the Humpback Bridge is repaired or upgraded, does it mean there will be more room to merge when taking the GW Parkway north exit off of 395? Trying to merge currently is as close to a NASCAR type experience as many in NoVa are likely to encounter.

[car54]

Originally Posted by Guamanians

Harry Reid's ignorance of the Humpback bridge show that he is out of touch with Northern Virginians. And, since the demographics of NOVA are largely a good mix of America we can safely say that Harry Reid is out of touch with Americans

The only US Senators that need to give a hoot about Northern Virginians are Mark Warner and Jim Webb.

I'm quite sure that voters in Nevada couldn't care less about bridges in Virginia...humpback or otherwise.

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by smithy77

Why the cheap potshot? I've lived here for 30 years and spent some of that time commuting on the GW Parkway from McLean to the District, and I've never heard of the "Humpback Bridge" either.

Well considering all the other bridges along the parkway are flat, it's not too hard to figure out which one the name refers to.

[smithy77]

Yeah, yeah, I know which bridge you're referring to----I didn't know it had a name. My point was that the attempt to link a Senator's lack of knowledge about a bridge's nickname with his purported disconnect between his office and his constituency is beyond delusional. It's just plain laughable. It's like saying that a Senator's refusal to eat cheese shows his contempt for the people of Wisconsin.

[normie]

Originally Posted by car54

The only US Senators that need to give a hoot about Northern Virginians are Mark Warner and Jim Webb.

I'm quite sure that voters in Nevada couldn't care less about bridges in Virginia...humpback or otherwise.

Originally Posted by smithy77

Yeah, yeah, I know which bridge you're referring to----I didn't know it had a name. My point was that the attempt to link a Senator's lack of knowledge about a bridge's nickname with his purported disconnect between his office and his constituency is beyond delusional. It's just plain laughable. It's like saying that a Senator's refusal to eat cheese shows his contempt for the people of Wisconsin.

Two excellent points.

[CAVA1990]

If i'd meant this to be political I'd have posted it in that forum. I don't care that Reid's a Democrat as I'd have posted the same thing had Mitch McConnell said it. Geez do we always have to pick sides and take umbrage when someone says something derogatory about someone of our political persuasion? What happened to the bi-partisan sport of making fun of a public official who is ignorant of something in his own backyard?

[ACWhite]

Originally Posted by CAVA1990

If i'd meant this to be political I'd have posted it in that forum. I don't care that Reid's a Democrat as I'd have posted the same thing had Mitch McConnell said it. Geez do we always have to pick sides and take umbrage when someone says something derogatory about someone of our political persuasion? What happened to the bi-partisan sport of making fun of a public official who is ignorant of something in his own backyard?

Maybe I should leave it to the administrators to respond, but I thought your questions were answered pretty well by earlier posts. But to try in a slightly different way:

1) as several people pointed out, they have lived here for years and have never heard of this bridge or may know the bridge but never heard it called by that name -- and I would add myself to those people -- are we all stupid/ignorant/unaware, etc., of NoVA?;

2) because as one person pointed out, not knowing this nickname says nothing at all about what the politician in question knows or doesn't know about his/her job, important world affairs, and/ or his/her constituency, or the politician's intelligence or other personal qualities. So it isn't an indication of Reid's "ignorance."

I'd also add the following: because of 1) and 2), it seems like such an overreach, which implies to others here that anyone making the leap has some motivation for trying to make the target look bad. So that makes it hard to believe that it's truly an equal opportunity, I'd-say-the-same-thing-regardless-of-party comment. So I'm glad Tone stepped in to remind us all that this isn't the right forum for that kind of thing.

[ACWhite]

Not to pile it on, CAVA, but instead to help to communicate why some of us interpreted your comments as we did: did you notice that in your opening post, you referred to Sen. Bunning with his appropriate title, but you omitted this gesture of respect for Sen. Reid, who is not only a Senator but the highest ranking (currently) Senator? Putting all these clues together - it looks like a "shot" rather than something you'd point out regardless of who said it.

[smithy77]

Originally Posted by CAVA1990

If i'd meant this to be political I'd have posted it in that forum. I don't care that Reid's a Democrat as I'd have posted the same thing had Mitch McConnell said it. Geez do we always have to pick sides and take umbrage when someone says something derogatory about someone of our political persuasion? What happened to the bi-partisan sport of making fun of a public official who is ignorant of something in his own backyard?

If you didn't "mean this to be political", then you shouldn't have included 2 Senators, a bill, and a bridge whose construction was held up by a political act. How did you expect people to respond? Your original post was not only political, but you also took sides.

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by ACWhite

1) as several people pointed out, they have lived here for years and have never heard of this bridge or may know the bridge but never heard it called by that name -- and I would add myself to those people -- are we all stupid/ignorant/unaware, etc., of NoVA?;.

Oh come on admit it, even if you'd never heard the name before, if someone said it in reference to the GW Parkway, you'd know what they were talking about (hmmm, where have I driven along there that seems like it could be called a "humpback bridge"?). Again, the post was meant as something I found amusing and not a political attack. You folks need to lighten up. Your responses show just how poisonous the political climate has gotten.