New Orleans Levees -- wtf is Congress doing about it?!!!

I just received this email bulletin from levees.org -- another reason to get pissed off with our sorry excuse of a Congress:

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From: "Levees.org" <Levees@mail.democracyinaction.com>
To: xxx
Subject: Congress convenes extraordinary recess
Date: May 31, 2006 22:03:59 EDT

Dear Members,

Last week, Congress could not agree on funding for housing and levees in time
for hurricane season before breaking for vacation. Yet, yesterday, Congress
convened an extraordinary recess to hold hearings about the raid of Rep Bill
Jefferson's office. They sacrificed their vacation time to draft legislation
that would bar the FBI from searching Congressional offices in the future!

Please tell Congress how you feel about these actions by our Congress Members by
writing a letter to the Washington Post and the New York Times. Here are some
talking points:

1. 95,000 homes were destroyed by flood water in metro New Orleans due to
broken levees.
2. Community block grants for housing are still not approved and are in danger
of being slashed in the House.
3. A recent study by the U.C Berkeley lays the majority of the responsibility
for the flooding on the US Army Corps of Engineers.
4. Hurricane Season begins on June 1.

Your letter will more likely get published if you use your own words. Please
send your letter in separate emails to:

letters@washpost.com and to letters@nytimes.com

Writing letters not your thing? Go to:
http://www.levees.org/advocacy/congress1.php and use our letter writing tool and
with one click of a mouse, send a letter to your Congress Members! The letter
is already there, just add your address and click "Send."

Thank you,
Sandy

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Please keep this bumped and voted as "best of" because we need to scream about those levees! Hurricane season starts in 1.5 hours!!! And NOAA is predicting a very active season!!!

Then they'll say, "we never saw it coming."

They couldn't make a quarter if you gave them 2 dimes and a nickel. I doubt this administration even gives 2 shits what happens to the great city of New Orleans. They're too busy fucking up Iraq.

in permanant homes....

We need to do something about this as Americans....they get elected to work....and that is what they should be doing!!

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

After all, they need to make sure Halliburton gets more no-bid contracts. If there's no disaster or no war, there's no contracts and no Halliburton stock increases to line Dick Chaney's portfolio.