Luckily catching up on the threads is not a “moving around” task..hehe
Right after Katrina, when the media was in a full feeding frenzy, I saw Newt on Fox. He was griping about the President being slow to react and said that he thought there should be a MARSHALL PLAN for the Gulf Coast. Now to me, a Marshall Plan means spending a lot of government money.
18 months later, when the Katrina corruption was revealed, there was Newt on Fox again. This time, he was talking about how corruption was to be expected when the government handled stuff like Katrina.
I swear, I almost threw a book through my television, remembering what he had said before. The overspending and corruption was a DIRECT RESULT of Newt and others like him talking about how we just had to spend billions of dollars ("Marshall Plan") and I felt he was absolutely cynical and opportunistic to change his opinions so much, and that change in opinion was a direct result of how the media was covering the situation and how the President was being portrayed.
Needless to say, I am not a huge Newt fan, regardless of what snazzy ideas he now has. I feel that he is too easily pushed by the media.