Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 07, 2019

Designed by a panel of Democrats and Republicans trying to work together.

Everything the traffic will allow.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee……

Met them halfway, what more do you want?

It’s the Wiley people in the vehicles and the Wiley creatures because those walking sure don’t look like people. They must be the missing link.

It’ll lead to nowhere…

Just another gap in infrastructure spending.

Share the road.

Guess which side the Republicans sponsored??? (Hint: it’s on the right…)

Spanning Incessant Disparity Gorge.

Profile of government regulations meant to solve a problem.

I somehow don’t think that a political diatribe was what Wiley intended here. It does show the tremendous rift that is killing this country and the cause is both parties. We need a stronger middle so kick them all out and lets start over. Sadly it takes gigantic egos to even want to be a politician and that’s a tough bubble to burst.

This reminds me of when I worked for a company that had a contract with the government. They applied a minimalist approach to the bid. They quoted based on what the government asked for (the bridge on the right) knowing full well that what the government needed was the bridge on the left.

“Once we have the contract, we’ll make a killing in the change orders.” AKA “Scope Creep.”

Compromise: an agreement where both parties go away angry.

So the suggestion here is that compromise is a bad idea? Because we need more idealogues refusing to compromise.

Congress passed a spending bill, but no one read it and missed that it said “Inferior Structure”

Hey, it all works for the pedestrians. In seriousness, I think the engineers can get a share of the blame. I remember seeing a news item about a rail bridge in Germany where all the passengers have to get off the train and walk across first before the train can cross because the engineers didn’t take into consideration the weight of the passengers when they built it.

Non-political comment:There are such things as single-suspension bridges, where one end is anchored and the other end is free to move. There’s one in Alaska across a fault. (I’ve been across it.) One side of the fault moves sideways a couple of inches a year, which caused the original double-suspension bridge to tear itself apart. So they built a bridge anchored on just one side. It worked.

This place shall be known as The Credibility Gap.

Exactly what is happening about the much needed I-5 replacement bridge over the Colombia when the Legislatures of Oregon and Washington try to agree – they aren’t even in the same time zones.

the bridge from wishy to washy

Adults are supposed to be able to compromise. I spend a lot of time trying to teach my boys (10, 6 & 4) the necessity and art of compromise. Apparently and sadly, many parents don’t.

I prefer the foot bridge….

Compromise has become a dirty word, because it’s not compromise the Republicans seek any more, it’s capitulation. So I suggest everyone adopt a “tit for tat” policy, and think about letting up when some balance has been achieved.

Original design for Channel Bridge between the U.K. and France, replaced by the “Chunnel”.

Hey at least they got something built

Compromise never works. Both sides lose something. It’s a lose-lose.

Cooperation is a win-win.

It looks like the people on the left used Science and Technology and the people on the right want to go back in time a couple hundred years. I know which bridge I’d rather drive across.

Clearly not a compromise. The GOP is like my mom about compromise: “We’ll compromise by doing it my way, without any further back-talk, and we’ll do it now!”

This is the result of agreeing on the need, but not compromising about anything except that and location. Liberals headed left, on foot, being green. Conservatives headed right, in gas-guzzlers, being pissed off.

It’s what happens when you put vehicular and foot traffic on the same bridge. Clearly someone thought it would work – “Common sense will prevail” and other banal comments.

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/A_Great_Compromise.htm Senate and House.

Only a Democrat committee could put a center support on a suspension bridge.