Katrina Coverage

Senator Teddy Kennedy offers the following statement while introducing the "Rebuild with Respect Act":
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed the silent slavery of poverty for all of America to see. There’s no excuse for ignoring what so obviously needs to be done to achieve genuine equality and basic fairness in this country. We know we’re a […]

From this:
…Republican Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire and Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts said today that they have introduced legislation to create a federal agency to oversee the recovery. The director of the agency, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, would oversee all federal resources involved in the recovery effort, under […]

The "liberals" have been "looking out for" America's poor for the past four decades, and New Orleans exposes just how little good they've done.
Now, they want to continue their failed policies, the Toronto Star reports in "America's dark underbelly":
…Hurricane Katrina has exposed America's cursed underbelly, its multitudes of poverty-stricken and hopeless, forgotten by a government […]