Neocons say: Mayor nagin screws up with planning a cities evacuation, throw him out!

Bush, Rumsfeld et al. screw up strategically in the war on terror: Reelect them! They’re doin’ a heckuva job!

Or is it just because we’ve never occupied liberated Iraq before?

What are you saying?

“How can we argue against the reconstruction of New Orleans on monetary terms when we ve already poured billions upon billions of dollars in an attempt to rebuild Iraq& a country that is geopolitically unstable and suffering from an out-of-control crime level?”

A pretty decent point.

I don’t know what I’d do. Its easier to opine as a daring no-risk poster than to actually have to handle the problem. On one hand, something is wrong with taxpayers sustaining open-ended an expensively unsafe proposition like New Orleans. On the other, is BD’s point.

Dugger

It’s hard to have sympathy for them now. They’re repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result. That is the height of stupidity.

I don’t care if they elect another Democrat, but for christ’s sake, just not Nagin. They midas well just go sit on their rooftops now.

What will be telling is the 2007 Governor’s election. Tom Benson may be the most hated person in the state, but Blanco is a close second. If Bobby Jindal wants to run again, it’s his for the taking.

Does the GOP really want to go there? Does it really want to tell American citizens that this country full of people who hate us is more important and worthy of money and man-hours than one of the oldest cities in America?

Ahh, this quote right here is such a perfect window into the neocon worldview.

When the going gets tough, we’ll give up on you! Vote for us!

Thank, pedro. Way to actually say what you mean.

I mean, I agree that New orleans needs to set some new rules up (no building below sea-level, perhaps?), but if pedro had his way we’d just cut it off from the states and hope batman comes to save it or something.

If you want to rebuild the parts of the city that are at least above sea level…ok. But why put ourselves in the same position again in five or ten years by rebuilding in a sinkhole?

Dugger, Did they ever find those dynamite receipts in the Bush records?

While it might be a good idea to re - assess the whole insurance / disaster scheme, if that’s not going to happen, then I say that New Orleans ranks at least a point or two higher than Hannibal, MO on a scale of American historical and cultural priorities.

New Orleans is not just the land of begniers and chickory, it is also one of our major seaports, the birthplace of Jazz, and one of our last “foreign”, multicultural, cities.

Would we not do the same for Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home?

Not that anyone else did a better job. Everyone pretty much failed with Katrina.

I don t think it s a good decision to just give up on New Orleans. It s a part of our country, many people have returned or still want to return. Even Pedro agress that the culutre of the city is valuable, and while it doesn t have to be confined to one small geographic area, it doesn t seem the same elsewhere.

The Corps of Engineers was studying the levee system before Katrina hit, and upgrading the system would take 20 to 25 years. So, is it reasonable to pour billions upon billions of dollars into a city sitting well below sea level, when the next big hurricane could do the same thing to it all over again, and we have little hope of providing adequate protection from such an event for two more decades?

It is a tourist-based economy, it is geologically unsound, and getting worse , AND it has a huge crime-rate. Unlike the Twin-Cities, it is also essentially decimated.

Might be time to pick up the toys and move to a new sandbox….

Also, many cities have gone through periods of high crime, and they have worked to succesfully reduce crime. Minneapolis-St. Paul, for instance, had a high crime rate in the early 1990’s, which now doesn’t seem to be the case.

Neither democrat appears attractive to me but the republicans must look even worse to the voters. Or maybe it has a little to do with how they feel about “compassionate conservatism”?