Subj : Um...no comment?
To   : Daemon
From : Frank Reid
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 09:52:00

  Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Daemon to Frank Reid on Sun Sep 04 2005 19:48:00

 >   In other words, Frank here jumped in to be a judgemental sycophant, and fo
 > it harder to do than he thought it would be.

No, it's actually quite simple.  I've got better things to do than waste my
time going tit-for-tat on this, and it's pretty obvious you don't.  It's also
obvious you don't give a crap about the truth, and your sole goal is to make
political hay out of a tragedy.  For four decades, New Orleans levee funding
was universally recognized "pork" here.  If you go through the records without
your blatant agenda, you can find thousands of similar "dire needs" projects
that were not funded because of budget priorities.  Pick your next tragedy --
tsunami in Hawaii, drought in the midwest, etc. -- and I'm guer-un-teee you
will find an amendment with a concocted solution that *could* avert the
inevitable tragedy!  If we funded them all, we'd have already built a glass
bubble around the country!  You know -- A billion here, a billion there... soon
you're starting to talk about real money, right?

If you don't recognize that's how things work here, you're either being
entirely disingenuous or you really are an idiot (and I'm starting to feel it's
the latter).  However, if you're finally willing to set aside your political
agenda and cite the *entire* historical record of levee funding and
appropriations, regardless of the political bent du jour, we might be able to
have an intelligent conversation on this.  I highly doubt that; but, until
then, you and Blumenthal can circle-jerk each other, and the rest of us will
wait for reputable sources to straighten the public record.

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