[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

I hope this is an accurate fact checking! Still the lefteist politicians are quick to blame Bush!

[Brimack34]

If the Senators or congress persons from NO asked for money they would have got it. The President did not veto anything.
So did they? I do not know. They know better than anyone what their state needs.

[guitarnick40]

New democratic/liberal time history designations being proposed for future evolution books in their godless schools:

BB=before bush (doesnt matter what happened then)
&
AB after Bush, when history began and the utopia was destroyed

[Mike Darancette]

the Corps of Engineers says that even the levee project they were working to complete was not designed to withstand a storm of Katrina's force.

The requested $$ would have been money thrown down a RAT hole.

[Liberty Valance]

Karl Rove's Hurricane Machine is just trying to blow smoke over the Supreme Court Nominee hearings.../sarcasm squared/

[beyond the sea]

We don't know whether the levees would have done better had the work been completed. But the Corps says that even a completed levee project wasn't designed for the storm that actually occurred. ----

This seems to be a key sentence.

But, it's clear that the Dems. will be able to spin this to the ears of the large numbers of relatively ignorant voters. This issue, unfortunately, may be a big problem for Republicans in '06.

[Smartaleck]

From another Freeper

Here's some similar info I came across earlier today:

February 17, 1995
An Army Corps of Engineers "hit list" of recommended budget cuts would eliminate new flood-control programs in some of the nation's most flood-prone spots - where recent disasters have left thousands homeless and cost the federal government millions in emergency aid.

Clinton administration officials argue that the flood-control efforts are local projects, not national, and should be paid for by local taxes.

Nationwide, the administration proposes cutting 98 new projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico, for an estimated savings of $29 million in 1996.

Corps officials freely conceded the cuts, which represent only a small portion of savings the corps ultimately must make, may be penny-wise and pound-foolish. But they said they were forced to eliminate some services the corps has historically provided to taxpayers to meet the administration's budget-cutting goals.

June 23, 1995

A hurricane project, approved and financed since 1965, to protect more than 140,000 West Bank residents east of the Harvey Canal is in jeopardy.

The Clinton administration is holding back a Corps of Engineers report recommending that the $120 million project proceed. Unless that report is forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget, Congress cannot authorize money for the project, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's office said Thursday.

On June 9, John Zirschky, the acting assistant secretary of the Army and the official who refused to forward the report, sent a memo to the corps, saying the recommendation for the project "is not consistent with the policies and budget priorities reflected in the President's Fiscal Year 1996 budget. Accordingly, I will not forward the report to the Office of Management and Budget for clearance."