House Speaker: Rebuilding N.O. doesn't make sense

[slutticus]

Haven't seen this on DU yet....

I'm so fucking pissed right now I can't take it...

Cutting disaster preparedness funding ...and now this?!?! Do they WANT New Orleans gone????

Thursday, 2:55 p.m.

By Bill Walsh
Washington bureau

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t sensible to rebuild the city.

"It doesn't make sense to me," Hastert told the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago in editions published today. "And it's a question that certainly we should ask."

<snip>

“That’s like saying we should shut down Los Angeles because it’s built in an earthquake zone,” former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., said. “Or like saying that after the Great Chicago fire of 1871, the U.S. government should have just abandoned the city.”

<snip>

"We help replace, we help relieve disaster," Hastert said. "But I think federal insurance and everything that goes along with it... we ought to take a second look at that."

More...

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#075833

Where the FUCK are OUR leaders???????
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[DrDan]

1. of course they would like to do away with NOLA

only 1 in 4 voted for the bastard

[BattyDem]

2. So THIS is what the Repugs are discussing today?

No talk about getting help to NOLA, just talk about letting it die for good? Unfuckingbelievable! :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Tace]

3. My Take Is That This Is A Calculated Decision That Was Made 5 Years Ago

Bushco did not intend spend money to protect the city from near-certain destruction, and they have no intention of rebuilding it, except for the petroleum facilities.

[slutticus]

9. I think you are correct.

At least Hastert isn't trying to hide the true GOP agenda.

[donsu]

18. agree

nt

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. I really think I'm going to lose it n/t

[Beaverhausen]

5. This from the man who will be Pres when Bush and Cheney are impeached?

does vice pres get impeached too? I should know that...

[madeline_con]

If he's to become Prez....

the impeachment crew had better get on the ball. They'll drag their feet until 2010 at this rate!

[lildreamer316]

6. @#$%&* HIM. n/t

[acmejack]

10. My thoughts exactly, LD

What can you expect from a wrestling coach? Back to the mat, denny

[Not Me]

7. Fine. What's your alternative?

Big talk fat boy. Put up or shut up.

On edit: typo

[KamaAina]

8. Ex-New Orleanian KamaAina: Hastert Doesn't Make Sense

That rat's-ass piece of garbage doesn't seem to mind pouring billions down the toilet in Iraq. Why should he give a flying fsck about rebuilding N.O.?!

The irony is that, but for a sex scandal, the speaker would be -- Bob Livingston, from Metairie. You certainly wouldn't have heard such tripe from Livingston.

:banghead:

[fooj]

11. They want the area for their own purposes.

:mad:

[derby378]

13. "Louis XIV Federal Toxic Waste Dump?"

Oh, God - say it ain't so...

[slutticus]

21. There must be some big oil reserves underneath NO

[jus_the_facts]

12. yeah let's just bulldoze it into the gulf and build oil refineries instead

:cry: :sarcasm:

:evilfrown:

[Javaman]

14. We have no leaders anymore. We live on a ship without a captain.

[Tace]

19. The Ship Of State Has Become A Ship Of Fools

If it hasn't been all along.

[Coexist]

15. but the rich assholes who build million-dollar vacation homes on the beach

in the Carolinas who can't get insurance shouldn't be told to stop rebuilding on the taxpayer's dime after their vacation homes are destroyed for the third time??!

WTF??? These people piss me off so much.

[ramapo]

27. Welfare for the rich

I read yesterday about one of the barrier island beach communities of vacation homes that was just about totally washed away. No question about the lunacy of rebuilding there.

There is a certain absurdity of building a city below sea level, next to the sea though.

[seemslikeadream]

16. CALL HIM NOW HERE IS HIS NUMBERS

Ask what he is doing about this disaster

Ask him if they rebuilt anything along the Mississippi

D.C. Office
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Batavia District Office
27 North River Street
Batavia, IL 60510

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Dixon Regional Office
119 W. First Street
Dixon, IL 61021

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
9 AM – 4 PM

Geneseo Regional Office
137 South State Street, Suite 336
Geneseo, IL 61254

Phone: [phone]

Office Hours
Thursday
9 AM – 3 PM

[blurp]

17. Sorry, but I have to agree.

If someone came up with a scheme to build a city below sea-level on the gulf coast in the path of hurricanes, he'd rightfully be called a fool.

Rebuilding is asking for another disaster down the road.

And it's not evironmentally smart, either.

[mitchtv]

23. SF and LA are no better off

better abandon them after the next earthquake. NO is a state of mind.They willrebuild with/orwithout. the nation's help. The Netherlands has managed to carve a country out of the North Sea.

[Boredtodeath]

26. Then we should abandon Florida as well

It is, after all, hit much more frequently by hurricanes and built on a swamp!

[daleo]

20. They only understand destruction.

Not construction. This tendency has been getting worse ever since Reagan, and this is the ultimate expression of it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. Like you'd know what's best, eh Fatso?

[d_b]

24. If there's a hell

I'll see that son-of-a-bitch there.

[slutticus]

25. There is a hell right now...and it's in the middle of N.O.