What is the matter with that picture?
Plenty. It seems to me that as battered as the system is, it won't even take a hurricane to reflood the city. If federal money is going to be poured into reconstruction (as W. promised it will be) we must demand that the corrupt machine never gets it hands on a dime of it.
All of the N.O/ LA politicians realize that if they don't get those LA evacuees back in bondage in NO quickly that they will never return, and that will really lower their own political power.
This is COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT Machievellian behavior.
Absolutely explains the LA politicos whole situation now, and to some much more minor degree, the other Demodogs...