-- President Bush is requesting $1.5 billion more to help make the levee system in New Orleans, Louisiana, stronger than it was before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast.

Ok, this just lowered my opinion of Bush.

Why the F@#$ is the FED spending any money on this? This is the responsibility of LA. I understand there are benefits (oil processing, etc) to the country as whole, but it's not the job of the rest of America to protect LA. from water.

So let's see, we have the raise tax and spend liberals, and now the lower tax and spend republicans.

CNN.com - White House asks?for $1.5B billion more?for levees - Dec 15, 2005