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Red state blues

Just received this email from a correspondent. He's an engineer in a very red, very southern state. We're talking NASCAR, Billy Graham, and lots of cousin lovin':
I just left a meeting where a supervisor said that Washington turned its back on the City of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Everybody agreed, and not just because he was a supervisor. I think that is the consensus view.
Uh oh.

Urban renewal for the soul

"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."

-- Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "overheard" in a conversation with lobbyists.

h/t TG

9.9.05 03:59

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harini calamur / Website (10.9.05 18:12)
i take it that he doesn't stand for relection from new orleans.
i was chatting with another blog acquaintance of mine in the states. and we were discussing Katrina and India and disasters. And how the poor invariably get screwed.
but, there is one fundamental difference. in India, the poor turn out to vote. and therefore politicians atleast seem to be less callous. (even if the sentiments are shared

(10.9.05 18:44)
Bush doesn't have to worry about re-election, because the constitution limits him to two terms. The Republican party wrote off the black vote about 30 years ago, and millions of white Americans vote Republican because it's the "law and order" party (translation: We keep the darkies down). Still, there's a huge political liabiity here for Bush and the Republicans.