Guest guest Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 [cacklinggrackle] Liberals and conservatives unite to kill NOLA " So, Barbara Bush was right after all when she said, 'So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.' And Rep. Richard Baker, a 10-term Republican from Baton Rouge, was right when he was overheard telling lobbyists: 'We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did.' The publication of both statements elicited public condemnation and was followed by a flurry of hairsplitting denials. But it is now clear that their only transgression was to say in unvarnished language what many pundits, politicians, and policy wonks were thinking. Since then, there has been a stream of proposals in more circumspect language, first by conservatives and then by a liberal policy circle at Harvard, that also envision the resettlement of New Orleans' poverty population far from the Vieux Carré, Garden District and other coveted neighborhoods of the 'new' New Orleans. " Full article at: http://gnn.tv/headlines/8992/Liberal_Bad_Faith_in_the_Wake_of_Hurricane_Katrina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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