Bush's FEMA is still screwing New Orleans:

[joemurphy]

Mary Landrieu on C-Span has set it all out. FEMA is sitting on $41 Million and not allocating it. Meanwhile New Orleans is dying. Nagin's laying off workers. Schools can't open. 71,000 small business loan requests - 7 have been approved. Universities are closed. The City has no money and can't make payroll.

It's horrible. If any of you can listen to this you'd be like me -- amazed. We're blowing the recovery too. Tax breaks don't help when you have no income, no businesses, no nothing.

This is another scandal brewing I think.

Even the faith-based institutions in New Orleans have nothing.

"It makes me frightened...that we don't understand the role of the federal government at a time like this." -- Mary Landrieu

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Cluster Fuck Continues while they chew on Harriet...Who woulda think?

[Pirate Smile]

2. I've been watching. She is going to talk all day tomorrow she says.

Filibuster until they help.

Where is Louisiana's other Senator? Has he been doing this? I sure as hell haven't seen it.

edit it to add - she might have better luck getting Lott to help then Vitter. Lott seems pretty pissed and willing to stand up to BushCo.

[markus]

6. Good news

I'm going to call my Senators and tell them they need to support her. Hell, I think she should talk from now until the end of time until the necessary aid is forthcoming.

[Pirate Smile]

7. I'm replying to my post to clarify. She didn't literally say "filibuster".

She did say she was talking to try to get Congress and the WH to act before they go on another break for a couple of weeks. They need the help now not in weeks.

It sounded similar to a filibuster. The Senate closed for the night but she said she would be back talking tomorrow also.

I hope she does try to keep them from going out of session, embarrass them and force them to act.

[VPStoltz]

3. What a bunch of dumb fucks they are.

They cut off the aid to individuals just when the folks started returning. But they certainly made a big deal out of it being there before hand.

[buzzsaw_23]

4. HUD boss says New Orleans "not going to be as black"

They just don't care in the beltway miasma.

HUD boss says New Orleans "not going to be as black"

By Joel Havemann
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — President Bush's housing secretary has touched off a tempest by saying a revived New Orleans no longer may be a majority-black city and that some of the low-lying, predominantly black neighborhoods probably should not be rebuilt.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said he expected New Orleans, a city of about 475,000 that was two-thirds black before Hurricane Katrina struck, to emerge only 35 to 40 percent black and with possibly 350,000 residents.

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Jackson's remarks drew howls from some black leaders, who said Katrina's black victims would be alienated. Some housing experts said they reflected the absence of an administration policy to deal with providing affordable housing for tens of thousands of displaced families.

Jackson, who is black, in turn took the black activists to task. "I wish that the so-called black leadership would stop running around this country like Jesse and the rest of them making this a racial issue," he said, referring to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002532703_canenawlins01.html



HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, left, accused activists such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson of making displacement of New Orleans' residents a racial issue.

[OneBlueSky]

5. neocons obviously belief we'll be better of with fewer poor blacks . . .

and New Orleans presents an unparelleled opportunity to take a significant step in that direction . . . the proof is literally everywhere . . .