Liberty and Justice for All!

It is been 10 years since Congress has disagreed with a President so strongly they managed to override a veto. Well, today the Senate joined the House and said “SHOW ME THE MONEY!”.

This money contained funds that Louisiana needs to rebuild and to strengthen itself for the future. Does it contain spending that is probably unnecessary? Probably. But there are many more projects that are justified and needed and it is a political reallity that you sometimes have to scratch the back of a Congressman from one district in order to get your back scratched as well. Would it be nice if Congress would be able to just say “let’s vote on issues individually and decide them on their own merit”? Sure! However, since we live in the real world we have to deal with the political realities of our world.

Perhaps now the prospects of Louisiana will actually be brighter. Our congressional representation served us well today.

Over on jindalisbad.com, I complained about the T-P and their lack of fact checking on Bobby Jindal. I think I know why they failed to check the facts on our Governor-elect.

Apparently, the T-P was so concerned with getting Al Copeland’s divorce records that they could not be bothered to do some investigative reporting on the claims made by the Bobby Jindal campaign for Governor of Louisiana. And who can really blame them? When I think of the important issues that face Louisiana, everyone must agree that none are more important than finding out exactly why Al Copeland got a divorce. Why worry about the problems of sediment when we can read about the problems of Copeland’s divorce settlement? Why worry about coastal instability when we can discuss spousal infidelity? Raising our levees? Forget that! We need to discuss how Al Copeland’s kids will be raised!

This just proves why I refer to our major newspaper as T-P.