Thursday, April 20, 2006
New Orleans to Get What It Deserves
The electorate of New Orleans seems bent on rewarding incompetence by returning Mayor "Buses, what buses?" Nagin to office. Sad but unsurprising news, as unsurprising as another Landrieu trying to belly up to the trough in order to bury his snout in the federal money.
Ron Forman would have a decent chance were it not for Landrieu's presence but a divided opposition just about guarantess either an outright Nagin victory or a Nagin/Landrieu runoff in May.
Given the probable outcome, it would be a responsible move by Congress to increase the budget for GAO oversight of the federal money to be sent to New Orleans (and Lousiana) tenfold. The citizens of New Orleans deserve the government they elect but the citizens of the United States don't deserve to have their tax dollars divided between fraud and mismanagement in the dismal swamps of Lousiana.
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DT,
I certainly have sympathy for them as individuals who have experienced personal trauma and there is justification for offering federally funded individual relief. Passing that relief through the hands of people who proved themselves incapable of executing their own disaster plan is simply foolish. If it were solely their money, no one could complain.
"They knew what was happening."
And yet they still wouldn't vote for Republicans.
(That was irresistible. I'm a registered Republican. I've voted for Keyes and Bush.)
"Here in New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin has been playing Hamlet, only without the intellect and eloquence. His first plan was to recommend turning some of these ruined black neighborhoods into parks, but then he quickly changed his mind when residents responded with impassioned calls for his oblong head. In the current vacuum of leadership, no one really knows what the plan is. Sitting in the Ninth Ward, I find it hard to believe that there's any plan."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9598135/how_to_steal_a_coastline
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