Louisiana: Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you

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Thursday April 13, 2006 · 7:40 AM PDT

2006/04/13 · 07:40

Miss Julie and I are residents of Louisiana...and you might as well be, too.

The difference is, we're grappling with Bush's response to a mega-disaster RIGHT NOW, whereas you can only HOPE he'll be there when YOU need him.

More on the flip...

The Bush administration has requested or received approval from Congress for $3.5 billion in levee improvements, and none of those plans require state contributions. At the same time, fiscal conservatives have grown increasingly impatient with the growth of federal spending.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) mocked the request for state funding toward the additional $2.5 billion and said the administration should say when it will ask for the money.
"It's like the man who throws you a 30-foot rope when you're drowning 50 feet from shore and says he's gone more than halfway," said Landrieu, who has vowed to block Senate action on Bush nominations to non-defense and judicial posts until the issue is resolved. "A noble gesture, perhaps, but it doesn't get the job done."
The announcement also leaves unresolved the fate of lower Plaquemines Parish, a rural strip of land that counted nearly 15,000 residents before the storm.
Administration officials said they are still weighing whether to spend an additional $1.6 billion for levee improvements there.

Yeah, I can hear some of you thinking, "Well, gosh, it was a natural disaster. What does that have to do with Bush?" Well, if you didn't know what happened, the devastation would SEEM as though it were caused by a suitcase nuke. Seriously. Watch the video.

That said, would Bush's response, the rubber-stamp Republican Congress' response, would their response have been any different had we been struck by terrorists?

If your answer is yes, then what the hell are you thinking? The houses are just as damaged; the levees are just as devastated; the people are just as dead; the homeless still don't have a place to live.

If the answer is no, then you might as well get used to the idea that Louisiana is coming soon, to a neighborhood near you.

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