A great quote from National Review magazine sums it up nicely:
"The City of Flint, Michigan, was for generations ruled by an incompetent and often corrupt Democrat party machine. When the city went into an extended financial crisis, a democrat emergency manager was appointed to reform its finances. The city's democrat leadership decided to build an expensive new water system as an economy-stimulating infrastructure project, which annoyed the democrats in nearby Detroit, who had been earning a nice income providing Flint with Detroit's finest tap water. The Detroit democrats retaliated against the Flint democrats by ending their aqueous relationship earlier than planned, and the Flint democrats turned to an alternative source of water, the Flint River, as a temporary measure. The democrats who run Flint's government consulted with the democrat union men who run its city agencies and came up with a water-treatment process for that Flint River water, which turned out to be ineffective. The residents of Flint, including its vulnerable children, were exposed to high levels of lead in the water as a result. The democrats who run Barak Obama's EPA learned of this, and did nothing. This sent the democrats running for that party's presidential nomination into a tizzy of moral intoxication, during which they called for the resignation of......the Republican governor of Michigan."
The fault is obviously not that of the recently elected governor of Michigan.
