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Largess in Louisiana: Money Flowed to Questionable Projects
Washington Post ^ | 9/8/05 | Michael Grunwald

Posted on 09/07/2005 10:00:50 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon

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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
But overall, the Bush administration's funding requests for the key New Orleans flood-control projects for the past five years were slightly higher than the Clinton administration's for its past five years.

Clinton Hates Black People

41 posted on 09/07/2005 11:12:15 PM PDT by msnimje (CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Uh-oh! Heads will roll.


42 posted on 09/07/2005 11:16:14 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

They aren't smart enough to know when to STFU.


43 posted on 09/07/2005 11:36:15 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

"Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations."

uh, punch him in the nose Mary, we will have to talk about that, right? NOT\


44 posted on 09/08/2005 1:40:54 AM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Louisiana is hardly unique in this respect. Let's not forget Alaska's quarter-billion dollar Bridge to Nowhere in the current transportation bill. That would build a lot of levees.


45 posted on 09/08/2005 1:43:10 AM PDT by kms61
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To: M. Espinola

Let's have that investigation of where did the money go.


46 posted on 09/08/2005 1:44:15 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's Code and found a terrorist message)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

bttt


47 posted on 09/08/2005 1:44:49 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Mo1

When the WaPo prints this, you know that the Dems are on the ropes. :-)


48 posted on 09/08/2005 1:46:20 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Peace will be here soon

Don't bank on it. The MSM worm turned yesterday with the usual suspect text readers saying it is time to stop the bickering, finger pointing, infighting, and yadda, yadda, yadda. They have seen the light and were about to get bit in the arse, so now anything the right says will be partisan attacks. And "you can take that" to the bank.


49 posted on 09/08/2005 1:47:08 AM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

bump


50 posted on 09/08/2005 2:01:26 AM PDT by kalee
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

The most corrupt state in the land has been mis-managing their money and I rather like Tancredo's idea that not one dime of the relief money flow through Louisiana.

"But overall, the Bush administration's funding requests for the key New Orleans flood-control projects for the past five years were slightly higher than the Clinton administration's for its past five years."


51 posted on 09/08/2005 2:16:51 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: MJY1288
When the Sun shines on the Democrats, they start steaming like a freshly pinched off turd

You really have a way with words! Couldn't have said it better myself.

52 posted on 09/08/2005 2:29:36 AM PDT by jslade ("If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." (Seminole Cty, FL))
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Who cares about all that? The real issue is why FEMA didn't teleport New Orleans to higher ground before the levee broke. It's an outrage!

I know it could be done. I read it on the Internet!


53 posted on 09/08/2005 2:53:16 AM PDT by PogySailor (Good luck to my son & buddies in the 1/11 Marines deploying to Iraq)
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To: MJY1288

In defense of Susan, she might be under the influence of pain killers from the last time she looked in the mirror. That woman must have to sneak up on a glass of water


LOL


54 posted on 09/08/2005 3:33:57 AM PDT by wingman1 (University of Vietnam 1970. Forget? Hell.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Do I remember right that MSNBC's Campbell Brown's father is in jail for fraud or something like that in Louisiana? Can't recall if it was insurance fraud, or levees, or casinos... It just comes to mind reading this story.


55 posted on 09/08/2005 3:36:47 AM PDT by Maeve (They caught the last train for the coast...)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Susan Estrich's head and voice aren't right. I'm not convinced she's a human being. Every time she's on TV, I think, "Quick! Call ART BELL! It's one of THEM!"


56 posted on 09/08/2005 3:39:06 AM PDT by Maeve (They caught the last train for the coast...)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
You know it's like an abused wife, she thinks that is how things are until she escapes and meets a really nice man and finds out you don't HAVE to live like that.

You know it's like an abused wife, she thinks that is how things are until she escapes and meets a really nice man becomes independent, realizes that she doesn't need a man to support her and finds out you don't HAVE to live like that.

There, I fixed it.....LOL

57 posted on 09/08/2005 3:57:41 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org • Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

This is a good one.


58 posted on 09/08/2005 3:57:44 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
"For example, after a $194 million deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked a Corps cost-benefit analysis, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations."

Getting porked in Louisiana.
59 posted on 09/08/2005 4:02:10 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: bmwcyle
"Let's have that investigation of where did the money go."

It's a very good idea. We know funds were not spent on the construction of a viable flood prevention system.

Maybe Katrina will warn people not to reside under sea level unless there are in one of these.


60 posted on 09/08/2005 4:18:22 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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