New Orleans

A few quick thoughts on New Orleans:

First, my thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families and friends.

Second, since there's plenty of blame to spread around, for the moment I'll choose to blame Grover Norquist and the anti-tax lobby he leads for helping to make this "the worst natural disaster in American History." Norquist has boasted he wants to shrink the government to the size where he can "drown it in a bathtub." It's fitting that the failure of our government's "leaders" to authorize the funding to fortify the levees in recent years has helped to cause thousands to die in a giant sewage-infested "bathtub."

Third, we Americans ought to be ashamed of ourselves because we are the ones of have stood by and allowed our (s)elected leaders to spend $2 billion per F-22 fighter and hundreds of billions of dollars to make war in the Middle East. Imagine the levees Halliburton and Bechtel could have built in New Orleans for that kind of money. "Fiscal conservatism" indeed...