Mary Landrieu: Show me da money!

Via Noel Sheppard at the American Thinker:

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) was unhappy last Friday night. After sparring with Senate Republicans, including her counterpart from Louisiana, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), she didn’t get what she wanted â€“ $15 billion in hurricane-related loans to her state without any strings attached. No matter how much she gets for her state, it’s never enough.

Now, don’t get me wrong, she did get some money — $750 million to be exact. But the recipients are going to have to pay it back, and that’s not what Landrieu wanted. She felt that given everything Louisianans have gone through, these loans should have been totally forgivable, meaning that if the recipients didn’t want to reimburse America’s taxpayers, they didn’t have to.

Doesn’t that make it a grant and not a loan, or am I parsing words?

Regardless, it’s not like there hasn’t been a significant amount of money already approved by Congress and the President to go to this region’s recovery efforts, unless you don’t consider $62 billion (that’s billion with a “b”) significant. And, given that this represents more than three times the amount of federal income taxes collected from Louisiana residents and businesses in 2004, this is certainly not chump change.

Read the whole thing and see if you’re not shaking your head at the end of it. Don’t be surprised to read quotes of hers in the future along the lines of “we’re starving kids and the elderly” and other such typical nonsense that we see out of DC Democrats when they don’t get the money they want.

Lokki says:

October 11, 2005 at 1:45 pm

Ms. Mary Landrieu (Dem, LA) is in no position to be asking the Feds for special favors. She and Mr. Nagin (Dem) have caused the President a lot of grief because of the their poor handling of Katrina.

One story that I read said that she was attempting to make the President look cheap by not funding her bail-out dream which would have put a garage around every car and a chicken-processing plant around every chicken. A sort of Democratic’s Disneyland, as it were.

One can only hope that a large portion of her voting base has (permanently) moved to other states.

Sister Toldjah says:

October 15, 2005 at 3:33 am

Lokki: I think Landrieu, along with a few other politicians in La., have been a big disappointment to many … not sure about how man voters who have had to move, but I’d hope that the politicians there who spoke out of both sides (if you catch my meaning) are held accountable come next election.