Story about a story. Go back to the actual articles and see what the
source was. Most likely those sorry sacks of **** in Congress who could
make levee improvements happen getting their fat asses off the hook
blaming it on some other dude much like OJ.

The Corps of Engineers budget has become a smoke and mirrors game with
the President going low the Congress could adding their pet projects to
get brownie points with voters. Any definitive study has to look at any
and all projects in Louisiana that were added by Congress or the
spending increased by Congress. If and only if Congress never added a
nickel to the original budget requests from the Corps, then you can
blame somebody else.


"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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That statement is as incorrect as George's. For example, money had
in fact been budgeted for repair of the levees, but later was
diverted to fund the Iraq war.

Source?

I'm tempted to use the "just****inggoogleit.com" web site here, but in
the interest of whatever, here's the first Google link from a
trivially easy search:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001051313

There are plenty of other articles documenting the fact, if you bother
to look.

While you may consider the Washington ADIZ to be a disaster on a
scale with Katrina, I suspect most of us don't see any comparison.

The scale of the "disaster" is irrelevant to the comparison. The
principle you're espousing should apply equally regardless.

I can believe that YOU don't understand the comparison. But that's
only because it contradicts what you think. You have never changed
your mind on anything, nor have you ever admitted error, and I don't
expect to see you do it now. But the fact remains, you putting 100%
of the blame on the local governments in New Orleans and Louisiana
just because they "didn't lobby hard enough or effectively" just makes
no sense.

Lack of federal action does not prove that someone did not lobby hard
enough. All it proves is that the federal government took no action.

Pete