Subj : Um...no comment?
To   : Daemon
From : Frank Reid
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 23:13:00

  Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Daemon to Frank Reid on Fri Sep 02 2005 21:31:00

 >   You mean ASIDE from 40 years of steadily improving the system of levies,
 > pumps (whose capacity was doubled over the course of work done in that time)
 > etc etc etc that came to a screaching halt when their funding was
 > pulled-out from under them to pay for mucking-up and rebuilding Iraq instead

You lie with dogs, and you get fleas!  You piggy-backed onto Finnigan's
partisan attack and cited Blumenthal's editorial without the least concern for
its accuracy or veracity, which is very analogous to the right-wingers citing
Rush Limbaugh in their crusades.  You believe you have many good reasons for
disliking Bush (and you may well have), but that doesn't give you carte blanche
to latch onto unsubstantiated partisan editorials simply because they further
bolster your low opinion of him.  Had you researched its accuracy, you'd know
that ZERO (none, nada, zilch) improvements have been made to the New Orleans
levee system in nearly two decades, including during the eight years under
Clinton, and that those funds for levee research and improvements are like
myriad other pork barrel projects that suffer from the ebb and flow of shifting
bureaucracies.

Now, if you had thought outside the partisan box and postulated that a
Replubican congress reduced that particular pork barrel grant because the
governor is a Democrat sitting in a seat they felt they should have been theirs
in the last election, you would have been more on target.  However, how that
lands in Bush's lap is beyond me.

Blumenthal's an idiot like Limbaugh... You're best not to take anything they
say or write at face value.  Here's a snippet from a review of his "The Clinton
Wars" from "The Village Voice", of all places:

-- "'The Clinton Wars' reconstructs a history so selective that it calls into
question Blumenthal's veracity on almost every point."

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