We’re Levees Not War, and We Approve This Message: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BfjpU_yHw0&feature=player_embedded * The text of the commercial, running in various media markets in Louisiana, goes like this: We know how David Vitter handled his “serious sin.”...
David Vitter
“Something Called ‘Volcano Monitoring’ ”
[cross-posted at Daily Kos] “[The Democrats’ stimulus] legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes . . . $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring.’ Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of...
Senator Vitter “Friends” Levees Not War,
Files to Repeal Health Care Reform Law
Just when we were trying to get our attention back on flood-protection infrastructure and coastal restoration . . . We try to get along nice with everyone, but still we were surprised to receive a “Dear Friend” e-mail from Louisiana’s Republican senator David Vitter...
Back on the Blog
Did you miss us? We apologize for a longer-than-usual absence, but there was a family medical emergency involving coronary intensive care that showed us all too dramatically (as though we didn’t already appreciate it) the life-or-death urgency of access to good health...
Obama Visits New Orleans (Too Briefly)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od2bOkQ4Kf0 President Obama visits New Orleans for about four hours today. He will visit the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in the Lower Ninth Ward from about noon till 1:00 p.m., and then will hold a town hall meeting at UNO...