help me respond to this disinfo on the new orlens levees

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

a rw nutjob sent this to my college paper-fot any suggestions for my response column?

"The New York Times has been consistent in its lack of support for federal flood-control projects down South. If you want to blame the flooding disaster on anyone, look to environmentalists who have blocked flood control to save the triple-crested pooh-bah salamander. Now they are blaming President Bush and the Republicans for not fixing the levees. The Levee Board of New Orleans built a casino and bought an airplane in recent memory, but did not ask the Corps of Engineers to work on the levees. It's like any help from the Feds, you have to request it first, and maybe you'll get it."

[JuniperLea]

1. They did request...

and got turned down. There was much discussion on that topic here... I don't think the search function is working at the moment... I blame Bush for that too! If he wasn't so good at being FUBAR, DU wouldn't be having this problem right now!

[katsy]

2. Maybe:

No one elected the NYT or environmentalists. They have the right to speak their minds.

bush was elected and he'll answer to the American people.

[Bob3]

3. The New Orleans Times Picayune has run several

stories on how the funds needed to strengthen the levees were requested but not granted because of our dear leader's fabulous Iraq adventure check their website.

[yewberry]

4. They're full of crap.

Here's an article about the levees and flood-control projects, with sources.
http://factcheck.org/article344.html

[PatrioticLeftie]

5. No matter what the issue is

They always blame liberals and environmentalists.