If you think that title is kinda pushing the limit, then wait till you see what the President has to say! Quick, think back and try to remember all the promises made during all his photo ops. Now take a look at what he says now. Remember, think Jackson Square!

Imagine going out to dinner with a friend who offers to pick up the tab. But when the $50 bill comes, he throws $40 on the table and says the tip is included.

That’s how Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office describes President Bush’s refusal to waive the requirement for Louisiana to pay a 10 percent match on any federal disaster relief money received for recovery projects. The waiver would amount to $750 million to $1 billion of additional relief money for Louisiana, said Landrieu, D-New Orleans.

The Robert T. Stafford Act requires state and local governments to match 25 percent of any federal disaster money received, such as Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance projects associated with hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The federal cost share for permanent work in Louisiana has been adjusted from 75 percent to 90 percent.

Okay, so some might think that the match is fair. So what if it was waved for some, and they did not have the volume of destruction that was done here? Well look no further than 9/11. It was done then, but Bush doesn-t think that the very same thing that over stepped the federal government’s ability, is beyond our control. He couldn-t do what was right for one storm, much less three major storms in one summer! Now people on the right have it in their minds that people should do it on their own. I have this to say to them: Remember the gas prices after Katrina, and remember that real clear. What crippled the feds, brought the nation to gas prices that soared almost over night.

Now Bush would not get this kind of rebuke, if he would not have made so many photo ops with a promise. With the war in Iraq, Katrina and Rita are forgotten to most. I myself, support closing off our pipelines to jolt the memory of the nation. Buying time till the office is thrown on the back of someone else, and then blaming them for all the failures of Bush, is not going to work.

The House and Senate are ironing out differences between respective Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bills passed before Easter. Both contain emergency relief packages for Louisiana wiping out the Gulf Coast’s 10 percent match and funding the Iraq War and global anti-terrorism campaigns.

Bush has promised to veto a Gulf Coast package, which totals $2.38 billion out of $121 billion in the Senate and includes the 10 percent waiver.

The White House maintains $1 billion was provided for the 10 percent match in the $10.4 billion in community development block grants already awarded to Louisiana. Bush also vows to veto any new funding or legislative attempt to waive the 10 percent match.

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