[OldFriend]

AMEN

[afnamvet]

Tancredo is correct here. Excellent idea.

[Gator113]

GREAT MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alia]

Ping. Tancredo is addressing the Katrina matter like an adult would and does.

[elbucko]

Good for Tancredo.

[colorado tanker]

Finally, some pushback to all the bravo sierra coming out of LA.

[TASMANIANRED]

That's gotta hurt.

[SixStringSlinger]

You know Jesse Jackson fudged his huggies when he saw this one. "Then where's my cut coming from?!?!"

[aShepard]

Let's all be sure that a Clinton isn't on this oversight commission.

Corruption? NOLA doesn't know corruption, they're penny-ante compared to Willie and the Witch.

[nicmarlo]

Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, I hope the House will refrain from directly appropriating any funds from the public treasury to either the state of Louisiana or the city of New Orleans. Instead, reconstruction and relief funds dedicated to the people of New Orleans should be administered by a private organization or a select committee similar to the historic Truman Commission.

gotta read this letter!

[Wiseghy]

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.

Pity it won't work politically. Shifting money away from those who actually live there? The Dems would welcome the fight. Not gonna happen.

Nonetheless, strong oversight and strict ethics enforcement (with mandatory federal prison time) tied to the money might work.

[Saundra Duffy]

Bump

[manwiththehands]

I used to live in CO years ago ... Trancredo was good then ... and he's good now. He nailed it.

[two23]

bump

[guitarnick40]

"Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) wrote a letter to Speaker Hastert, urging him to direct federal hurricane relief aid through channels other than Louisiana public officials."

Absolute correct call. All federal taxpayer aid needs to be more diligently accounted for in these times, particularly this type of money.

[John Lenin]

Right on, no money to the incompetents in LA.

[GOP_1900AD]

Excellent idea. We know that both at the local and state level they are as corrupt as they come. Cut them out of the chain.

[TC Rider]

LOL, go Tom!!

I suspected that part of Blanco's refusal to relinguish control to the Feds was a hope to keep funds going through her office.

[kcvl]

The head of the FBI in New Orleans just this past year described the state´s public corruption as "epidemic, endemic, and entrenched. No branch of government is exempt."

[kcvl]

Louisiana politicians have been convicted of crimes; the list includes a governor, an attorney general, an elections commissioner, an agriculture commissioner, three successive insurance commissioners (one was MSNBC, Campbell Brown's father), a congressman, a federal judge, a State Senate president, six other state legislators, and a host of appointed officials, local sheriffs, city councilmen, and parish police jurors.