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To: LindyBill who wrote (150595)	12/12/2005 9:47:28 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793807

Bill, it's very simple politics, so simple that it becomes clouded for its obviousness. The feds, Bush, etc., are consciously not emphasizing Katrina or the reconstruction because it is a terrible reminder of just how badly they, especially FEMA, has fumbled the issue. It is a political nightmare for the Administration the Dems will soon enough pick up on. And there's lots of grist for the Dem's mill: $500 million paid by FEMA to trailer manufacturers to purchase 8,000 trailers for temporary housing yet only 800 delivered so far, more than 100 days after the casualty; no replacement of FEMA's head; allowing Entergy, the local utility to go bankrupt in contrast to the $250 million grant Con Ed got after 9/11 [you should see my utility bills! At least I can afford to pay them, many cannot]; no effort to disengage FEMA from Homeland Security, probably the single most important structural reason for the lack of response; the terrible FEMA response itself; the COE ineptitude; terrific rhetoric from W on September 22 at Jackson Square followed by an upraised middle finger, etc., etc., ad nauseam. Bush got blasted by the right for that speech, and ditched whatever good intentions he had. But it's going to come back to haunt him and the GOP. Hypocrisy doesn't sit well when human suffering is involved. We measure the federal response by comparing it to 9/11, which was a walk in the park compared to what happened here. We wonder, why are we getting screwed and New York got treated so well? I have a friend who sat on the panel that awarded cash to the families who lost members in the WTC collapse. The amounts they got was extraordinary. Many multi-million awards. Louisiana voted for the GOP last go around; I'll be stunned if the GOP ever wins a race down here again. The Dems don't seem to have picked up just how vulnerable the Administration and the GOP is on Katrina. The NYT is certainly stoking the fires and, frankly, good on 'em. Throwing us to the wolves to deflect attention on the Administration's Katrina foibles is really nasty politics. The blogger you linked suggested that Bush spend some time on his State of the Union speech on Katrina. He will, but it will be the same old BS. We know better because we live the hypocrisy.