Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

I certainly don't read it that way. It could simply be that the White House is preparing for yet another round of mud slinging, and can you blame them? It appears that David Bookbinder was trying to read more between the lines than might have actually been there.
 

First, let's hear it for bloggers!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9368952

Second, on the story in E&P about the Clarion Ledger piece: It sounds as though PERHAPS the current administration is trying to show that enviro groups didn't want the continued encroachment in the wetlands that the Corps was essentially reclaiming, ergo, the CUTS IN FUNDING made by the current administration would be "justified through the concerns of environmentalists." Somebody somewhere is bringing a class-action against those who made decisions that weakened the levee system, surely. The supermajor oil companies have already been sued for creating the canal systems down there that have done essentially the same thing to the natural wetlands.
 

And, let's not forget, all it takes to change the climatological impact of yer average tropical storm is one degree in temp. This has already happened, and four more will make our sovereign nation (and every other) lose most of their coastal property.
Mind you, global warming is still the demonic halluciation of secular humanist scientists who fail to adequately love Our President.
Pardon me. 'Three' more. But to say so might injure someone's ability to Profit, which we all know is protected by international law.
 

The memo ask for information about law suites about the levees "protecting New Oreleans". Not levees along all of the Mississippi River, nor wet lands, etc.. It would seem then, it could be a Department of Justice fishing expedition as to why the N.O. levees broke. It is certainly a well established Neo-Con position that enviromentalist are evil.
The levees that broke however,were those along Lake Ponchatrain, and the drainage canals into the lake, not the river. Hell, if the River levees ever break it won't fill up the New Orleans "bowl" it will wash it all away. There will not be any need to discuss rebuilding it.

I think the reporter is making the correct suppositions as to the intent of the query. Actually the reporter if he is any good at all "knows" more than he can put in the article.

What interest me however is why send out such a memo in the first place, any half way competent secretary at Justice could get all they needed by logging onto Lexus Nexus and asking the same question.
But then, maybe no one asked a secretary.
 

Besidss that, the president himself brags that he doesn't read -- newspapers or much of anything else. Mosyt of lexus-Nexis is previously published information. Makes sense, in a twisted way. God deliver us.

--ER
 

So now the truth comes out. The reason you don’t like Bush is because he won’t waste 50 cents for second hand news. He gets the real deal on his desk, not that made up stuff the media shovels out to scare the public. Besides, haven’t you heard, newspapers are on the same road as buggy whips.
 

No. I don't like Bush because he's deluded, dishonest and detached from everyday reality.

He's a hypocrite, and the most fiscally irresponsible president in history.

He's a borrow-and-spend government hater -- one of many oxymorons in his administration, the underlying one, probably.

And yes, I expect the president to read. Newspapers. Books. Studies. On-line data sources. AND reports, official and otherwise.

I can read a damn book a day when the heat's on, and still work a 40-42-hour week, stay married and keep the dogs fed. And have a little fun, too. It was called graduate school.

Damn straight I expect the president, who has the entire effing executive branch at his disposal, to do at least as much. More, actually. The heat is on.

CLINTON DID.

Just because the rest of the country is growing stupider and stupider, and less and less informed by the hour, doesn't mean Bush has that luxury.

--ER
 

So what is the author saying? That the justice department is gearing up to defend themselves against the Bush haters and evironmentalists who will invariably try to pin this disaster on Bush, as they always do?

The way I see it, finally, instead of just circling the wagons and hoping the indians just go away they are planning a defense.

I find it interesting that the Bush haters can bash and slander and attack and call names all they want but as soon as the Bush administration even thinks about attacking back, they are all big bad meanies.
 

To use the Justice Department for political purposes -- even defense -- is Nixonianism run amok. It's flat wrong. Thats what I'M saying. ... And what do you MEAN, "finally" circling the wagons?? Holy crap. This administration has been about 50 percent questionable war and 50 percent pure-dee politics all along. Politics is fine. But keep the Justice Department OUT OF IT.

--ER
 

Hey ThePress, did you know that JFK had the IRS audit Nixon in 1961? It also audited Nixon's mother!!!!!!!
 

Good point. Don't make it right.

Look, this stuff has ALWAYS gone one! And that's not an assumption. It's from study. I became politically aware under Carter-Reagan. Despite what I know about history, the political side of me has a dog in the hunt, too.

Here's more about JFK's abuse of power:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2003_Sept_16/ai_107543543

--ER