How different do folks think this crisis would have been under Kerry and why? It seems to me there is a lot of assuming going on, one being that had the money been there for the fortification of the levees, the levees wouldn't have been breached nor topped. But my understanding was that the appropriation was way under what the situation required to begin with and that one of the breached levees had actually been renovated.
There is also the issue of the shortage of National Guard due to Iraq. Can we assume that under Kerry this would have been significantly different? If so, how? I'm also curious about voting records over the years in regard to appropriations for wetlands preservation in the area and disaster preparedness. How clean is the Dem record on this vs. the Republican?
Not asking any of this rhetorically and I retract the question entirely if it provokes anyone to start blathering in a thoroughly predictable way pro or con on progressive voting strategy. We've all heard it. Let's save it for Hillary in 2008, k?
--- Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck0" <chuck at mutualaid.org>
>
>
> snitsnat wrote:
> > I predict the biggest 2008 GOTV among blacks in
> history.
>
> -That's pretty silly. The failure of the government
> to do anything in New
> -Orleans is as much a Democrat problem as a
> Republican. Throw in the
> -inaction of Democrats on the war and you have a
> situation where more and
> -more people will be pissed at the government.
>
> Folks in states other than Louisiana can't vote
> against the local Dems in
> LA. They can. however, vote against the national
> Republicans who cut
> spending on emergency preparedness and levee
> reinforcement.
>
> And the ones who sent the national guard overseas.
>
> Or the ones who repealed Davis-Bacon for the
> emergency zone so that
> Halliburton et all can pay cut-rate wages and
> bolster their profits off the
> reconstruction money.
>
> And to repeat-- two-thirds of Dems in the House
> voted against authorization
> for the war.
>
> But keep spinning that there's no difference between
> the parties. You
> sound a lot like Bush playing the same old record.
> Most of the population
> isn't buying it from you or Bush.
>
> Nathan Newman
>
>
>
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