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Landrieu Threatens White House to Get Levee FundingPosted on Apr 5, 2006The Louisiana senator says she will hold Bush’s executive-branch nominees hostage until he agrees to more funding for the Katrina-ravaged state. (This was the woman whom Anderson Cooper famously chewed out, saying she was out of touch in the wake of the hurricane. Guess she toughened up since then.)
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By JP, April 5, 2006 at 10:07 pm Link to this comment
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Do some more research, SS. There’s no point rebuilding on the former swamps that many residential areas were built upon, but that’s mostly up to the individual homeowners anyway.
The “sliver on the river”—the original settlement and what was occupied until the late 1800s—stayed dry. That’s also all the historic and cultural sites. It’s a national tragedy if we let that part of our history die.
Report thisBy DD, April 5, 2006 at 7:37 am Link to this comment
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New Orleans is not viable for a number of reasons. It’s slowly sinking due to normal compaction of the materials it is built on. New depositional materials are diverted away from the area by the levees this lady wants rejuvenated. Storms are increasing in their intensity and in the years ahead will overwhelm any hugely expensive gestures of the type she wants. What is there in New Orleans that justifys endless expenditures? If the area is so economically important, let it generate its own money for these useless engineering gestures. However, if she wants to stop the Born-again-braindead’s nominations, more power to her - she may be doing something good for the country afterall.
Report thisBy JP, April 5, 2006 at 4:37 am Link to this comment
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It’s pretty sad that she has to resort to this to bring attention to a truly dramatic problem.
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