Obama, Durbin worried about Katrina victims

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Illinois' senators are voicing concern over how the victims of Katrina have been shortchanged by the government.

Sen. Barack Obama, who is expected to announce his candidacy for president next month, declared that the American people "have made it pretty clear, I think, that it was an embarrassment to our country and that we betrayed our own citizens."

The Chicago Democrat said as a member of a Senate subcommittee on Homeland Security, he will join Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in visiting New Orleans on Monday as part of an investigation of what can be learned from the 2005 hurricane's aftermath.

Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate's second-highest ranking Democrat and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Congress needs to appropriate more money to deal with New Orleans' problems and an administration in Washington with the "will to do."

"It is a shame a great city like New Orleans was brought to its knees in devastation and that promises were made to the American people that we would stand by them as we brought the city back to life," Durbin said. "It is just a sad commentary."

more:http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/16550809.htm?source=rss&channel=belleville_state

[Kagemusha]

1. Hmm? Lieb's still investigating?

Well isn't THIS news...

[maddezmom]

2. I don't think it's an investigation as much as a "listening tour"

found this link:
Lieberman expands Homeland panel oversight
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42998-1.html

[Acadia Blue]

3. Liar Lieberman promised N.O. an investigation with subpoena.

[texpatriot2004]

4. And not one word was uttered about these victims in the SOTU!

Shameful!

[ninkasi]

5. The betrayal of New Orleans

and the rest of the Gulf Coast destroyed by Katrina is one of the most egregious examples of the Republic party's betrayal of our country. The president and his party have turned their backs on everybody but the wealthy of this country, have shipped our jobs overseas, and recruited foreign workers to take jobs from our own citizens, and have destroyed our relations with other countries around the world.

Bush smirks as he insists that as "the decider", he has the right to wage war on any country he chooses, in order to, as he lies, bring "democracy" to the rest of the world. What everyone but he and his corrupt crowd can see, is that a country which abandons it's own citizens has nothing good to offer to whichever country he is threatening with bringing democracy to.

In New Orleans, the message is coming across loud and clear, that the Republic party cares nothing about it's citizens, because they are poor, and many are black. Children have been turned away from public schools there, because their buildings have been destroyed, and there is a shortage of teachers. The children, and their parents, are becoming more and more depressed as time goes on.

Money that could be spent rebuilding the Gulf Coast is instead being poured into the sands of Iraq. The citizens of New Orleans know this, and correctly realize that although they are American citizens, they count for nothing in this corrupt administration. Now that the balance of power has shifted in the Congress, we should demand, as citizens, that our fellow citizens be helped, and lifted out of the hopelessness that is destroying their lives.

[Sequoia]

6. That alone will cast my vote for Obama.

[sarcasmo]

7. Kick.