[Enchante]

"We spend more money to build a tunnel under Boston than to save our entire wetlands."

Well, talk to your leftist buddies Kennedy and Kerry about that one, dude. This guy is a riot, what a moronic race-baiting twit. Nagin and Blanco should be doing time, but if this guy were in charge he'd be worse, not better.

[Sam Hill]

Not to mention that it was the squandering of money on "saving the wetlands" that caused the levees to be neglected in the first place.

Well, not neglected. The Greenies didn't want the levees at all. The Corp of Eng had to fight to get them as high as they did.

The Greenies wanted "wetlands" and they got them -- in spades. And idiots like Malik can't even figure out that much.

[Sam Hill]

A piece that expands on my last post:

Sweetness & Light » Blanco: “Lower The Levees!”
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/blanco-lower-the-levees/

[Sam Hill]

"Design Flaws Seen in New Orleans Flood Walls

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20 — A surge from Lake Pontchartrain was the catastrophic situation that the corps had been guarding against since Hurricane Betsy 40 years ago. Initially, the corps wanted to build a giant barrier to keep water from the Gulf of Mexico from reaching Lake Pontchartrain and flooding the canals.

That project was delayed by lawsuits from environmental groups that contended the corps had failed to study ecological effects. By the late 1970’s, the corps abandoned that approach and began raising levees along the lake and the Mississippi and adding flood walls on the canals."

http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/blanco-lower-the-levees/