Shared Responsibility


(h/t Library Chronicles)

John Barry explains why flood control for New Orleans is a matter of national concern:

These costs are a federal responsibility because benefits to the entire nation, including massive engineering projects built in, and providing direct benefit to, states as far away as North Dakota, have in the last 60 years transformed New Orleans from a city reasonably safe from hurricanes to one dangerously vulnerable to them. These projects have had an effect as great as sending saboteurs from 1,500 miles away to dynamite Louisiana's levees.

Meanwhile, Johnny Mac was in NOLA today, promising that the NEXT time federally built levees failed in the city, he probably wouldn't spend the day mugging for the cameras and/or shoveling birthday cake down his piehole while in the company of a talking chimp...he also declaimed Rev. John Hagee's odious comments as "nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense" until the word "nonsense" itself ceased to hold any meaning for the assembled press...whereupon the Arizona senator groveled before "Reverend" Hagee and begged for forgiveness.

OK, so I made that last part up.