Do Jindal and Vitter Need To Shut Up So Too Save Louisiana's Coast?

I am going to be talking a lot more about the Louisiana Coastal Crisis on this blog. I urge all Louisiana bloggers to do the same regardless of political outlook, faith, or type of blog you have. If you have a blog that talks about sewing I hope you post on Louisiana Coastal erosion.

I was reading two blog entries on this issue at LaCoastpost. See Jindal at the Alamo and Growing disconnects between Obama and Jindal-Vitter could portend serious coastal consequences.

The main point of these posts seem to be that because Jindal and Vitter are critics of President Obama that well we might be punished as to Coastal erosion funds.

I think this is buying into the SERF mentality that sadly is the reality as to Louisiana relationship to the rest of the country.

I pray to GOD that President Obama knows Louisiana will live or die on his watch. That on his watch year after year we are coming closer to a National Security problem regarding the national energy supply. May I humbly suggest that if the President is so vain to punish the State of Louisiana because Jindal is being vocal then we have no hope at all.

Is Bobby right to criticize nearly a billion dollars to be spent on a monorail? Yeah with the United States losing a acre of land every 40 minutes down here perhaps he is right about weird priorities. For the record I was critical of Republicans that wanted to build some multi billion dollar Great Wall of China boondoggle on the Mexican border as our land is going into the Gulf.

Why do we buy into this?. Can you imagine people in California having that attitude that they should not criticize the President so they could get their money for their levee system? Why do we buy this serf mentality?Can you imagine the reaction in Florida if they were punished as to the Everglades because their Governor criticized the President!!!

I was a young kid when I sent my first letter to then Gov Buddy Roemer and my then State Senator Randy Ewing. Since then we have gone through Republican Presidents and Democrat Presidents. We have gone through a Democrat Controlled Congress to a Republican controlled Congress and back to a Democrat controlled congress.

They have never cared. Why was this problem not addressed when we had Senator John Breaux who at the height of his influence under the Clinton administration could not even make significant headway?

Now we are led to believe that if only Jindal and Vitter quit being a pain in the ass on unrelated Coastal issues that we might be saved!!! Where is Senator Mary Landrieu in this? Is she now a non actor?

Too often the nations' actions and their influence on Louisiana are ignored. While many talk about the need for increased ethanol the fact that this causes a huge dead zone off our Coast because of the fertilizers coming down the river is ignored. Countless forests have been cut down talking about not drilling in the Alaskan wasteland but hardly nothing on the dead zone issue.

If the saving of Louisiana depends on Senator David Vitter not speaking out on issues such as "Card Check" so not to anger Daddy in Washington then I would suggest the game is up. People down south might as well prepare to move north of I-10 and rice farmers suffering salt water infusion better start looking for farm land in Mississippi.