What was that about Republican successes?

R. Neal at Facing South points to matters that we cannot let Republicans try to walk away from as they attempt to talk about this administration and this Congress's "accomplishments."

How feeble and tragic is this -- nearly a year after Katrina, the situation with temporary housing is still a flipping mess.

It has been 11 months since Hurricane Katrina hit and Janice Tambrella still does not have a home. She doesn't even have a trailer of her own.

Tambrella is currently jammed in with 10 other relatives in a single trailer delivered to a luckier relative. Sleeping on the floor, living out of cars surrounded by overgrown grass and storm-felled trees, she sighs, "I need a place to stay."

Nearly 1,200 St. Bernard Parish families are still waiting to get into trailers that sit locked on their home sites but need utilities or other services; another 400 families waiting for trailers have none at all, FEMA said.

BTW, 10,000 FEMA trailers are rotting away in the Arkansas mud (your wallet is $1 billion lighter for that travesty), and even worse, Dear Leader's government has unused, undeployed trailers sitting right there in Louisiana.



Maybe we just need to give more money to the highly effective contractors who are landing work with no-bid, no-scrutiny contracts. Four of those contracts are already about to top $3.4 billion (up from an initial $400 million).

What fiscal responsibility and efficient small government those Republicans on the Hill represent! Who wouldn't want to return them to office for more of the same?

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And if that isn't enough, how about this:

Photographer for 'Times-Pic' Arrested As He Begs Cops to Kill Him .

A photographer for the Times-Picayune of New Orleans who has undergone severe personal trauma since Hurricana Katrina hit was arrested Tuesday after trying to get police to shoot him to death. Police said he claimed he was depressed after he found out he didn't have enough insurance money to rebuild his Katrina-damaged home.

George Bush and all his fat cat friends in the insurance business have abdicated their responsibility in so many cases, doing all they could to avoid getting claims adjusters, refusing to pay out for wind damage when it was clear it wasn't flood damage, the list of horrors goes on and on.

Kate's sister has a friend on Mississippi who was endlessly on the phone with her insurance company for months; the company would stall and say someone would be out to review the damage to the roof "next week", then no one would show. These folks were willing to do the repairs themselves, they just wanted money to buy the materials.