From the Washington Post, “Projects Plentiful in Louisiana”: Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a huge new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic. Except that barge traffic

From Roll Call: Citing what he said was a “history” of public corruption in Louisiana and the “abysmal failure” of current state officials to respond to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) on Wednesday urged Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to prevent local politicians from controlling any part of the billions of federal disaster relief dollars slated for the state. Tancredo’s heart is in the right place—I honestly

In light of today’s WaPo story, “Judge Orders Berger to Pay $50,000 for Taking Classified Material,” I thought now might be a good time to repost some old material.  From my “blue” period. The Sandy Berger’s Lament poem Were I a marsupial, none of you would care what I stuffed in my pockets.  Instead, you’d love me and pet me and feed me tasty eucalyptus leaves. Still brings a tear

Dean:  “…The ugly truth of America is that this whole ‘exploding gas tank’ thing wouldn’t even be an issue if—instead of Pintos—we were talking about, say, 1997 Mercedes-Benz S600 Coupes.”*

From the New York Times: Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary who has been the Bush administration’s point man in fielding criticism of the hurricane relief effort, came under fire Wednesday from some Congressional Democrats for private remarks about the conditions faced by storm survivors that struck the lawmakers as insensitive. The new criticism was set off by a private and sometimes contentious briefing that Mr. Chertoff and other senior

Well, it looks like the newest lefty Katrina talking point is beginning to clarify itself, and it’s one of the worst yet.  The jackals must be getting desperate. Exhibit A:  Kerry-supporting, anti-war “conservative” Andrew Sullivan (who, let’s face it, he’s a hirsute¹ Josh Marshall with a nicer apartment and a bear fetish), begins his morning dutifully parroting the hard left line that FEMA is, in his words, attempting “to censor

Seriously.  Don’t.  Click it. Trust me. **** (h/t Tman, via Rambling’s Journal, who has more) **** update:  Verified.