Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Blocks Army Corps Nominee

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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/50138/

Mary Landrieu Blocks Army Corps Nominee

Posted by Richard Blair at 6:11 AM on April 4, 2007.

Richard Blair: Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. gulf coast, the national conversation is still centered on total mismanagement by the Bush regime.


It's hard to believe that nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. gulf coast, the national conversation is still centered on total mismanagement by the Bush regime.

Recently, reports have have surfaced that the Army Corps of Engineers installed defective flood control pumps in the New Orleans levee system last year. While this incident didn't generate a whole lot of outrage, it's just another example of the complete lack of attention being paid to reconstruction by the overseers in the Bush administration. It seems almost axiomatic that after many such displays of incompetence in the federal response to the disaster, someone with a level of access equivalent to a cabinet official should have been appointed to coordinate the federal efforts. Again, there is no responsibility being assumed, butts kicked, or names named.

What else is new?

Anyway, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) is mad - so mad that she's put a hold on the Bush regime's nominee to head the Army Corps of Engineers:

To protest what she called mismanagement of the New Orleans levee system, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has placed a hold on the nomination of Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp to head the Army Corps of Engineers.

Landrieu made the announcement Tuesday at a news conference near the 17th Street Canal levee in New Orleans that was breached after Hurricane Katrina.

"We cannot protect our communities without effective leadership and competent management," Landrieu said...

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[Swamp Rat]

1. !

:mad:

:kick:

[BOSSHOG]

2. The Corps said the Pumps worked fine last year

THE PUMPS WEREN'T NEEDED LAST YEAR. Good for Mary, no doubt the LGEN has been vetted to nothing but 100% loyalty to a failed administration.

[wicket]

3. My grandfather, who was in the Corps of Engineers...

...and helped rebuild Germany after World War II, is completely disgusted at what has become of the Corps. There needs to be a shakeup from top to bottom. Good for Mary!

[Nite Owl]

4. Used to be that they were

one of the most respected parts of the army performing minor miracles wherever they had a job. I suspect that their problems have to do with with privitization and giving control to their buddies at Halliburton and subsidiaries. Now we pay more and get less with no oversight.

[wicket]

5. Murtha said on CNN last week that there are 126,000 "private contractors" in Iraq

Who are making tons more money than our soldiers. Where is this money coming from??? And yet again, NO OVERSIGHT! :grr:

[lies and propaganda]

6. Good job Mary!

Use that spine I know you have!

[Suich]

7. !!!

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[pigpickle]

8. kick