Brown says White House wanted him to lie

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Also on 'This Week,' U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the administration still doesn`t understand the magnitude of the reconstruction problem; but the president`s Gulf Coast coordinator, Don Powell, said the federal government`s No. 1 priority is to rebuild the area in a businesslike way.
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"Businesslike way." Ah, I see.
That means no reconstruction will occur without abundant corporate welfare, rampant cronyism, galloping corruption and mercenaries roaming FEMA trailer parks denying residents their right to speak to reporters about the BushCo ass rape they've been getting for the last year.

Then, in order to more tightly seal the ethnic cleansing delivered by God the Father as a personal favor to Pat Robertson, there is ongoing bludgeoning of labor and worker's rights (in the Gulf and elsewhere), utter disregard for the environment and tube feeding more Gulf oil revenue to Chevron, etc., and other bloated, gassy, corporatists who oppose democracy at every level and suppress competition at ever opportunity, rather than tapping that revenue to rebuild New Orleans.

And don't forget the "colonial" and "plantation" pipeline crowds - owned and operated by giant oil conglomerates, by the way - they profit too.
How quaint - those names which explain the lack of meaningful response to Katrina better than anything else I can think of, summing it all up so succinctly and imagistically.

Those names evoke the colonizer and the colonized, the master and the servant, the stern, empowered, righteous, blessed-by-god superior and the dumb, knuckle dragging inferior, dark skinned people with whip marks on their backs, and the none too bright white skinned poor who crack the whip because it is better to oppress than be oppressed . The designers of the Amerikkkan system grasped that fully and were smart enough to figure out how to factionalize the growing bottom class and keep it eating its own rather than purging the masters from power.

Our current plantation house of slavers don't need chains because they have ESPN and HBO and FX and gas gulping Chevy Tahoes and Faux news and an enormous, privatized tax payer supported military that can be turned on the public in a heart beat with the cry of "terrorism". Chains enough right there.

And gas prices continue to fall even though tall the conditions that ostensibly drove them high still prevail. That's what happens when there is an election coming. Washington want to show us just how goddamn dumb and incapable of acting in our own self interest we really are. because if we were capable of acting in our own interests we would be assembling the guillotine in the public square.