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Barbara Bush isn't the first person to have said this - it was public knowledge last week when these "refugees" were being transported out of NO - "I ain't neva goin' back!"

first of all, i take issue with your mocking black accent. second of all, the reason they weren't going back was that the city was destroyed!

Barbara Bush isn't the first person to have said this - it was public knowledge last week when these "refugees" were being transported out of NO - "I ain't neva goin' back!"

Give them credit for some sense. Even Dim voters aren't dumb enough to want to return to a city below sea level whose coastline is disappearing, making it unlikely that anything can save New Orleans from hurricanes fifty years from now.

As inelegantly as he stated it, Hastert was right. There's a real question of whether we should or even can rebuild New Orleans. The levees are needed to hold back flooding. But the levees actually cause far greater problems by holding back the sediment that would otherwise have kept New Orleans above sea level.

It's a bad idea to keep throwing money at NOLA. Rebuild the ports and make it an industrial area. Put the population on high ground. Leave the French Quarter and add some casinos since they like that stuff so much.

Texans, to speak frankly, have a justifiably low opinion of Lousiana government. It is a little better now with the all the casino money, but 10 years ago you could tell precisely when you had left TX and entered LA because the highway started to buckle and crack.

I don't doubt most Texans presume anyone from LA would want to stay. They can't imagine why anyone would want to live anywhere else in the first place. But I also suspect the are not crazy about Lousianans actually STAYING. In that light, Barb's comment was positively humanitarian.