Wait a minute.. I don't recall where Miss Marple said that she was for turning over millions of dollars to the state and local governments in the Gulf area!!!
And, you STILL haven't said what you would do...and using the phrase "LBJ rhetoric" seems remarkably like the DEM talking points...so where are you from?
You mentioned that the federal (beurocracy) should NEVER get involved unless it is for the national defense and national security....do you not think that one of the MAIN shipping posts would important re: national security?
I think you are being a knee-jerk Buchananite...but, if you would outline what SPECIFICALLY you would do to fix the coast, maybe I will change my mind...
You keep telling me and other posters how wrong we are, but you haven't told us what you would do different.
Yes, please answer the question this time. WHAT do you want Bush and the GOP Congress to do?
Do you realize how much this adds to the Deficit everyday in both the costs of direct aid to Evacuees and lost tax Revenues? Do you realize doing NOTHING still costs the Fed Govt BILLIONS? Do you realize that "Doing nothing" will require the Feds to spend those billions FOR EVER?
Just how many votes do you think your "do nothing" plan will get in the Congress?
Considering how much damage you claim was done to Bush's poll numbers by the post Katerina media spin about Bush being "too little too late", what do you think the "Do nothing" plan of yours would do to the Republican parties chances in the next election?
You are aware that we live in a Constitutional Republic not a Presidential Dictatorship? That the consensus of the whole not the emotional whimsy of the few, dictate policy?
Bottomline. You support the President and his proposals to spend whatever it takes to rebuild the gulf coast region. As a fiscal conservative, I disagree.
PS- Rebuilding the Port of NO won't cost $200-billion.
And I think you're being an irrational knee-jerk Bush cheerleader.