I think shrubco has a plan!

[charlyvi]

I think they want as few people as possible returning to New Orleans and the surrounding region. Why? First, to dilute any Democratic stronghold in the region. Second, to have a blank canvas on which to create their free market/anti-government Utopia (or what their twisted definition of Utopia means). No environmental regulation, no guaranteed wage level, no bid contracts to the contractors that toe the ideological line, all micromanaged by Rove and company; actual citizens would only get in the way.

New Orleans, like Iraq, has now become an ideological laboratory. God help us!

[jasmeel]

1. Sounds like a plan they would make.

[madame defarge]

2. Well...

if it's a toxic soup down there, I wouldn't want to live there. Let the Repugs have it and hope they hold all of their conventions down there.

[stillcool]

5. yeah....let them have it all....

who cares about those people who have lived there for generations. And toxic soup...why would you think it would be contained to just that area? You must live someplace cozy and far away.

[madame defarge]

7. Hey...

I'm saying the people who lived there deserve better than to live in toxic soup; otherwise, we end up with another Love Canal problem. It's always the poor who end up getting the shit end of the stick when it comes to good areas to live in. Why subject them to more heartache & agony by bringing on generations of health problems? Instead, give it the rich Repugs.

And yes, our whole country is probably full of toxic soup...including where I live, which is not necessarily cozy or far away.

[stillcool]

9. sorry i was snippy....

but using your analogy everyone should cede the corporate right of way, and that is no answer. Allowing the take over of countries, cities, oil-fields, and constitutions as a means to their end results is criminal and inhumane.

[FarLeftRage]

3. Yeah, it seems I read that

somewhere on buzzflash or americablog....

Can't remember now.

[losdiablosgato]

4. I have been thinking this for over a week now.

[emulatorloo]

6. You are right, and the only part you have missed is "Blame the Democrats"

when they stand in the way. . .

Check out this DU thread here:

TPM Cafe: Rove + Gulf Coast reconstruction + Dems + 2006 Elections

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2097579

[devilgrrl]

8. Don't forget that they want to drill the f*** out of it for OIL!!!!

Think about it....

[emulatorloo]

10. Kerry: "vast laboratory for right wing ideological experiments"

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_09_19.html

A lot more, but here's a snip:

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And the rush now to camouflage their misjudgments and inaction with money doesn’t mean they are suddenly listening. It's still politics as usual. The plan they’re designing for the Gulf Coast turns the region into a vast laboratory for right wing ideological experiments. They’re already talking about private school vouchers, abandonment of environmental regulations, abolition of wage standards, subsidies for big industries - and believe it or not yet another big round of tax cuts for the wealthiest among us!

The administration is recycling all their failed policies and shipping them to Louisiana. After four years of ideological excess, these Washington Republicans have a bad hangover -- and they can't think of anything to offer the Gulf Coast but the hair of the dog that bit them.

And amazingly -- or perhaps not given who we’re dealing with -- this massive reconstruction project will be overseen not by a team of experienced city planners or developers, but according to the New York Times, by the Chief of Politics in the White House and Republican Party, none other than Karl Rove -- barring of course that he is indicted for "outing" an undercover CIA intelligence officer.

Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do. Michael Brown -- or Brownie as the President so famously thanked him for doing a heck of a job - Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what George Tenet is to slam dunk intelligence; what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what Tom Delay is to ethics; and what George Bush is to “Mission Accomplished” and "Wanted Dead or Alive." The bottom line is simple: The "we'll do whatever it takes" administration doesn't have what it takes to get the job done.

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[charlyvi]

11. Wonderful!

I'm so sad he isn't our president.