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Landrieu may block holiday recess until levees dealt with
nola.com ^ | 11/28/05 | BRETT MARTEL

Posted on 11/28/2005 4:54:06 PM PST by Ellesu

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Monday she is prepared to prevent the U.S. Senate from taking Christmas and New Year's break until Washington has approved money to pay for flood protection improvements along Louisiana's coast.

"We may be getting to a point where we've just got to raise the level of attention" on Louisiana's critical flood control needs, Landrieu said Monday while touring damaged neighborhoods here with Boudewijn J. van Eenennaam, the Dutch ambassador to the United States. "We've got to get people down here to walk through these neighborhoods, to see these houses, to see the stretch of devastation along the whole Gulf Coast."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 109th; marylandrieu; obstructionistdems
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To: flixxx
"What happened to all of the money LA has gotten in the past for the dikes???"

Isn't that why God sent Hurricane Katrina, to punish the dikes?

21 posted on 11/28/2005 5:07:28 PM PST by rvoitier ("Hug your babies tight"--Luanne Platter)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Re-election wasn't at stake at the time.


22 posted on 11/28/2005 5:08:22 PM PST by rvoitier ("Hug your babies tight"--Luanne Platter)
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To: Ellesu
Mrs. Piggy ping

You mean she's taking all the attention away from "Kermit", the Mayor of NO?

23 posted on 11/28/2005 5:08:25 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: Ellesu

Let her try it. And watch what happens when she tries to screw with her colleagues' recess...


24 posted on 11/28/2005 5:08:48 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Ellesu
Oh, please, oh, please let her do this.

I cannot think of a single thing more certain to create yet further disarray in the DemocRAT party than this.

25 posted on 11/28/2005 5:09:23 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Ellesu

"We've got to get people down here to walk through these neighborhoods, to see these houses, to see the stretch of devastation along the whole Gulf Coast."

It should actually read, "Our dem-o-rat base is no longer here and unless we throw money to get them back, our political careers are f*****."


26 posted on 11/28/2005 5:11:08 PM PST by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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To: kittymyrib

Good point. If they want real levees, they might need to do what the Japanese did when they built Kansai International Airport—drill all the way down to the bedrock and remove the water from the subsoil before building on top of it. Even then, the airport is slowly sinking and it cost mega billions.


27 posted on 11/28/2005 5:11:33 PM PST by Windcatcher (Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Landrieu is connected at the hip with many parts of the nest of corruption known as NO and LA politics.

Thank God someone brought this revelation to the light of political discussion.

28 posted on 11/28/2005 5:12:01 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: Ellesu


Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and New Orleans City Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis, right, leave a damaged home in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans, Monday, Nov. 28, 2005. St. Bernard Parish sheriff Jack Stephens. left, follows the pair while on a tour of Hurricane Katrina damaged areas.
29 posted on 11/28/2005 5:12:30 PM PST by LA Woman3 (I will be known as one of the most effective governors Louisiana has ever had. Kathleen Blanco)
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To: Ellesu

Why didn't she try this before the recess for Thanksgiving? Why wait until the Christmas recess?

Everything I read says they are in Thanksgiving recess for two weeks. They recessed after the house vote on pulling out of Iraq and will return on December 12th. That is three weeks on my calendar. No wonder we have trouble communicating with these people in DC.


30 posted on 11/28/2005 5:13:34 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Ellesu

---if one minority member can do this to the "world's greatest deliberative body" we are in even deeper trouble than I thought--and I think we are in awfully deep trouble--


31 posted on 11/28/2005 5:15:19 PM PST by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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To: Ellesu

---if one minority member can do this to the "world's greatest deliberative body" we are in even deeper trouble than I thought--and I think we are in awfully deep trouble--


32 posted on 11/28/2005 5:15:42 PM PST by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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To: mewzilla

Sounds like a bank holdup. Book her.


33 posted on 11/28/2005 5:19:18 PM PST by Carolinamom
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To: EGPWS

LOL!


34 posted on 11/28/2005 5:20:10 PM PST by Ellesu (www.thedeadpelican.com)
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To: river rat
This corupt, insane bitxx should use the time to determine WHY all the money already sent to Louisiana for the levees -- ended up in some other pork project or Democrat's pocket

but..but..how else were they going to rebuild the altar to Mardi Gras, build the roadways and bridges to the casino boats, do an unneeded study on a bridge that had nothing to do with the levees? They'll worry about the levees tomorrow. Ooops.

35 posted on 11/28/2005 5:22:11 PM PST by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

36 posted on 11/28/2005 5:23:19 PM PST by Ellesu (www.thedeadpelican.com)
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To: LA Woman3
Nobody's cleaned up the mess? We're only a month from Wilma, which redecorated everyone's yards and lawns with roof tiles, destroyed most trees and fences, and we've worked out rear ends off to at least pick up the mess.

I guess we'll be seeing pictures like this until Landrieu gets her money -- or until next hurricane season -- whichever comes first -- Landrieu pushing hard to get the bucks before NO gets hit again, the levees give way again, and the public realizes it's a lost cause.

37 posted on 11/28/2005 5:26:22 PM PST by browardchad
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To: kittymyrib

The weight of the levees themselves in that bog contributed to the failure. However, I want New Orleans rebuilt enough to send the evacuees home from Baton Rouge (now known as New Orleans North) at least. After spending a few days last week amongst them - my heart is not the soft touch that it was.


38 posted on 11/28/2005 5:29:22 PM PST by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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To: Ellesu

Without New Orleans this POS would have never been elected in
the first place. She depends on the housing projects to
keep her in office.


39 posted on 11/28/2005 5:29:32 PM PST by RWCon
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To: Ellesu

She needs money for her christmas "corruption" break. You can't buy votes for gumbo anymore. Well maybe, really good gumbo.


40 posted on 11/28/2005 5:32:24 PM PST by FFIGHTER (Character Matters!)
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