Blanco did an immoral thing. She is stupid and venal.
The MSM played up minor things,,who really gives a damn what Mary Landrieu, another dumb venal person, wants. The MSM has made things so much worse.
I am personally soured on Blanco and Landrieu, the media and all that. But I am equally soured by the blanket judgements about the people here, the "not my taxes" whine. FR has been as sour a place in the last year as DU in my opinion.
A personal note: I have read this entire thread, and I must say that you have earned my admiration for standing your ground against virtually everyone else posting on the thread. I do find it distressing when a single FReeper gets "treed" by a bunch of others!
While I question (on both technical and economic grounds) the re-creation of NO just as it was, I can certainly see the need for strengthening the best parts, and converting some of the most stressed and damage-prone areas into something like parklands. Or, for instance, deep-channeling the lowest parts (to create permanent waterways) and using the spoil dirt to raise areas to be re-developed. I wouldn't even object to a project like that done in Galveston: dredge Lake P. and other waterways, and pump the sand into areas that need to be raised.
What is needed is a serious urban re-design plan -- focused on saving the best and sacrificing that which can never truly be protected adequately. Just saying "We wanna build the levees higher" and rebuilding in the sinking areas is beyond foolhardy, IMO...
Again, hang in there -- and thank you for retaining your civility when others lost theirs!