Why doesn't someone punch this guys lights out??
Sidney needs to stick another pencil in his ear.
New Orleans should be used as a land fill and when it is completely filled....grass it over and make a national park or drill for oil.
To restore the entire city would be a massive waste of time, effort and money.......
just what liberals live for.
Sidney crawled out of his whole hole.
Enough said right there. No point to read the drivel after reading the tag-line.
anyone else notice how hitlary has again disappeared?
Demcrats are really screwed on this since it appears the incompetence of local democrat leaders has come home to roost.
Someone here mentioned that it was actually Clinton who deserves the blame for what happened in New Orleans because the Army Corp of Engineers went to him about N.O. but he was the one who refused to give them the help they needed.
IF that's true, then it is true-to-form of Democrats to try to pin this tragedy on Bush. After all, he is the source of all evil.</sarcasm!>
In Before the Barf Alert.
You mean President Bush was in office back in 1910 when this levee/pump system was installed and over the next 95 years caused the city to sink 9 feet? Wow! That is one long serving President!
As much as I loath this guy, and he's probably playing fast and loose with the facts, he brings up something that needs to be addressed. Most of us are outraged at all the "pork" in our federal budget. The last budget was obscene. If we can afford a couple a hundred million dollars to build a "traffic" bridge for a Republican in Alaska, why do we not fund levies for a Democrat in NOLA?
If I am going to read this (((puke))) I need more periods and paragraphs.
"In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane."
Dear Sidney, Even if "wetlands protection" could be accomplished so soon after "four leading environmental groups" arrived at their conclusion in 2004, your article doesn't mention whether such measures would have helped against a Category 4 or 5 hurricane.
I'm just waiting for the enviro-wackos to start with the line that "The hurricane was sent by the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia to punish the evil Bush for not signing the Kyoto Treaty". Just wait, it's on the way.
The sun rises in the morning - It's Bush's fault!
Water flows downhill - It's Bush's fault!
Sidney Blumenthal is very close to both Clintons, he's probably trying to curry favor with hitlery in order to get a job on her campaign staff.
This is Hillary's lap dog. He speaks for her when he is not writing for ultra left-wing garbage like The Guardian.
whole = hole...sorry (it's early)
"A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken."
The Bush administration does not fund these studies. That is an out-right falsehood. These studies are funded at the Corps division level with additional resources being allocated by Congress, if needed.
The Corps does feasibility studies all the time. It has nothing to do with the president.