Anybody notice something missing from the "stimulus" bill?
"President Obama will keep the broken promises to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast." - White House website.
Maybe later.
Thompson and others say new funding wasn't necessary in the stimulus largely because billions of federal dollars remain bogged down in bureaucracy or tied up in planning. As a result, they said, Katrina funding doesn't fit with the quick-spending purpose of the stimulus bill, which is aimed at kick-starting the economy.
Assuming, of course, that the "quick-spending" stimulus bill doesn't get bogged down in bureaucracy and planning...