[Peach]

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."

[PogySailor]

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!

[Maeve]

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.

[Chi-townChief]

This is a good one.

[Chi-townChief]

"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.

[SoFloFreeper]

"...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."

BUSH SPENT MORE ON NEW ORLEANS THAN CLINTON!

My conclusion? Clinton doesn't care about black people.

[CWW]

YOU MISSED THE KEY PARAGRAPH OF THE ARTICLE: BUSH GAVE MORE FUNDS THAN CLINTON FOR N.O. FLOOD CONTROL!!!

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. Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, the chief of the Corps, has said that in any event, more money would not have prevented the drowning of the city, since its levees were designed to protect against a Category 3 storm, and the levees that failed were already completed projects. Strock has also said that the marsh-restoration project would not have done much to diminish Katrina's storm surge, which passed east of the coastal wetlands.

[Brilliant]

The Louisiana politicians had the wrong priorities.

But hey... At least Landrieu got her "lynching apology" thru the Senate.

[MNJohnnie]

Please mail copies of this article to as many Conservative Talk Show host, pundits, conservative activists, freepers, ping lists etc. This is a direct refutation of the lie being spun that "Conservatism" being the cause of the New Orleans disaster

[McGavin999]

Ah yes, I seem to recall it was the dems who wanted an investigation. Well, now things are being investigated. Notice how the dems have suddenly refused to cooperate? LOL