May 18, 2015 The parade of Democrats racing to microphones to cash in politically on the Amtrak tragedy was stunning; even for this special crew of slip & fall ambulance chasers. Although clueless to its specific cause they called for more infrastructure spending and blamed cheapskate Republicans for a lack of funding. Sometimes implied, other times more directly stated, was that GOP legislators were putting the almighty dollar ahead of the safety of their fellow Americans. When it became clear that it was 106 MPH in a 50 MPH zone, and perhaps âhuman errorâ, as opposed to some structural problem that caused the catastrophe, Dems altered their attack. They fingered the lack of a functional Positive Train Control system on that curved section of the Philadelphia tracks. A little bit of PTC research followed by some intellectual honesty would have shown that it hasn’t been a lack of money, but an abundance of bureaucracy preventing the full application of this long sought safety measure.