Landrieu may block holiday recess until levees dealt with

nola.com ^ | 11/28/05 | BRETT MARTEL

[Ellesu]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Monday she is prepared to prevent the U.S. Senate from taking Christmas and New Year's break until Washington has approved money to pay for flood protection improvements along Louisiana's coast.

"We may be getting to a point where we've just got to raise the level of attention" on Louisiana's critical flood control needs, Landrieu said Monday while touring damaged neighborhoods here with Boudewijn J. van Eenennaam, the Dutch ambassador to the United States. "We've got to get people down here to walk through these neighborhoods, to see these houses, to see the stretch of devastation along the whole Gulf Coast."

[cubreporter]

Louisiana is YOUR STATE mareeeee

Louisiana is BLANCO'S STATE also mareeeeee

NO is NAGIN'S city mareeeeee


You guys deal with it. If you had dealt with it correctly from the very beginning BEFORE Katrina things might have been different but NONE OF YOU DID ANYTHING and so now you want to stop the Christmas break? Go ahead and try. This should be very interesting.

[LA Woman3]

Nobody's cleaned up the mess? We're only a month from Wilma, which redecorated everyone's yards and lawns with roof tiles, destroyed most trees and fences, and we've worked out rear ends off to at least pick up the mess.

You have Jeb.....enough said.

[deport]

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Monday she is prepared to prevent the U.S. Senate from taking Christmas and New Year's break until

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How to win friends and influence people via extortion is that it?

[harpu]

"You have Jeb.....enough said." AHHHH, not exactly. I think you need to say more!

[PhiKapMom]

And those skin of her teeth voters have been moved out of New Orleans. Her base is no longer in New Orleans to vote 100% in precincts!

Why should we rebuild the levies when they misspent the money the last time?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

It'll probably be very lonely in D.C. for Missed Landrieu! But, her vote will count! For what, I don't know!

[Jack Black]

as they are going to have to do what Holland did. Or not. The under sea level portions of Holland are a huge part of the county. New Orleans is a pimple on the butt of the USA. We could, if we wanted to just condemn large parts of N.0. (all those slum housing districts, for instance) and make them a park. With no one living there the need for super-leveys goes away. It could even be restored to "wetlands" possibly.

A much smaller "botique new orleans" could be left. Most of the good land is where (surprise!) the good buildings are. Many of the high rises were not flooded.

I don't see why US Taxpayers should pay to rebuild below sea level slum housing, or replace it with anything more ambitious than .. a golf course.

[LA Woman3]

"You have Jeb.....enough said."

AHHHH, not exactly. I think you need to say more!

____________________________________________________________ OK, so that was my compare/contrast hurricane governors bumper sticker......

[FlingWingFlyer]

The horse is long gone and now this dizzy ditz is screaming for somebody to close the barn door. Geeeeesh. Stupid people.

[04-Bravo]

Didn't I read that Nagin just went on a vacation to Jamaica? Maybe she better call him back...

[OldFriend]

Tell the loon to get back the money sent to NO that was spent on everything BUT the levees.

[Nalu]

Lets see since it was covered in water dosnt that make it Wetlands?
Wetlands Definitions
Generally, wetlands are lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface (Cowardin, December 1979). Wetlands vary widely because of regional and local differences in soils, topography, climate, hydrology, water chemistry, vegetation, and other factors, including human disturbance. Indeed, wetlands are found from the tundra to the tropics and on every continent except Antarctica.

For regulatory purposes under the Clean Water Act, the term wetlands means "those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas."

[taken from the EPA Regulations listed at 40 CFR 230.3(t)]

[oldenuff2no]

Let's make this simple. Before you get one dime you have to clean the corruption out of New Orleans. If you can not do this one simple thing then you get no money.
I was reading last week that the rate or erosion has increased X 10. They are now prediction the N O will be 5 miles off shore and 30' under by the end of this century.
Please explain to me why we are rebuilding a city that is going to be impossible to keep dry.
This is a stupid waste of our tax dollars.

[PhilDragoo]

[OldFriend]

Let's not forget that when the Corps of Engineers wanted to build the levees deeper the enviro wackos prevailed in Court and the NYSlimes praised the effort to keep the levees from being reinforced and better able to protect the city.

Let the New York Slimes and the enviro wackos cough up the money to fix their 'mistake'.

[OldFriend]

Let's not forget that when the Corps of Engineers wanted to build the levees deeper the enviro wackos prevailed in Court and the NYSlimes praised the effort to keep the levees from being reinforced and better able to protect the city.

Let the New York Slimes and the enviro wackos cough up the money to fix their 'mistake'.

[WasDougsLamb]

What happened to all of the money LA has gotten in the past for the dikes???


-----She pocketed it!

[ClaireSolt]

The Corps of engineers has said repeatedly that it has legal authority to restore the levees. I think Mary should walk some other treets and find out how disgusted America is by NO. Some call it Katrina fatigue. I am glad we have Bush,but as a previous poster said, it is the people who pick up the pieces and move on, for the most part, not the government.

[Smartaleck]

First there needs to be a 911 like commission to investigate the failure. I'm sure the Dems would welcome the scrutiny.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL!

Money money money,
makes the world go around...