Political Horizons for Jan. 29 Baker’s relief bill deserves try By JOHN LAPLANTE Published: Jan 29, 2006 Ford to City: Drop Dead,” a legendary headline screamed in 1975, when a president refused to bail out New York City from financial disaster. Change the president and the locale, and Louisiana hurricane victims might be forgiven for thinking the same thing. After hemming and hawing for months about U.S. Rep. Richard Baker’s home-buyout bill, and never really saying what he had against it, Bush brushed it aside last week. Only after aides revealed his opposition did Bush grant a one-paragraph explanation. It...