National Security and Pedestrian Safety Aren’t Robert Novak’s Strong Suit

24Jul08

It’s bad enough that Robert Novak thinks it’s cool to out CIA personnel in his newspaper column, but now he’s taken to running people over on the streets.

It seems that the guy Bob Novak slammed with his car while he was walking in the crosswalk is in worse condition than before and “appeared to have casts on his neck and back.” Novak is saying that the reason he sped away from the incident is that he didn’t realize he hit the guy, but a witness says the victim was “splayed on his windshield.”

I saw on television earlier this morning that for breaking traffic laws and seriously injuring a man through conduct that could easily have killed him, Novak is going to get . . . a $50 fine. That’s ludicrous. Lawlessly running down pedestrians should be a serious offense.

This is pretty upsetting, I’ve walked down that street and I had assumed the penalty for running me over would be greater then $50.

Anyway here’s a list of politicians I’ve seen crossing the streets in Washington D.C.
Harold Ford
John Kerry
Sam Brownback
John Thune
Adrian Fenty
Bill Clinton
(Yes he was the President and had Secret Service around him, but it wouldn’t have done him any good against a moving car)

If someone had really hit those people when they were crossing the street and had the right of way would that driver really have only gotten a fifty dollar fine?

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