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I'm also tired of the conventional wisdom on Katrina. Of all the places hit hard by that hurricane only New Orleans, with its inept mayor and dependent populace, was a mess. And FEMA did what it always does -- write checks. And to the point Congress prodded them to write faster only to wake up with a spending hangover once the bill came due. The major failures rest on the shoulders of the city of New Orleans (who wasted decades of flood control money on local politicians) and the governor who showed amazing incompetence as she dragged her feet signing the simple forms to allow the federal government to do more. The military personnel saved the lives of thousands and you never hear that story.

But as a conservative I can assure Mr. Hillyer I'm not going to help them out again. I'm tired of fighting on the front lines only to watch our leadership run away with white flags waving when some Democrat says, "boo." Thanks to the feckless GOP voters and leaders in Tennessee we have Bob Corker as the Republican candidate to fill the seat of Bill Frist (what a wuss he became). Gee thanks. I voted for Ed Bryant, a true conservative, but since Van Hilleary was also in the race he took just enough votes away from Bryant to let Corker get in. Corker did start spending a lot of money early but it was the GOP establishment that wanted him in or somebody could have appealed to Hilleary to get out. This the same establishment that helped Gov. Bredesen win against Hilleary in 2002 (and who will get reelected again easily this year). Jim Bryson is running against Bredesen (he filled the state senate seat vacated by Rep. Marsha Blackburn who, thankfully, will win again by just being on the ballot) but it's more for name recognition before he really runs hard in 2010 for governor.

This is the same GOP establishment that helped us get Lamar! (again over Ed Bryant, but not by much in the primary) in 2002. Gee thanks. Lamar! and Bob Corker (should he win) are perfect bookends. Charlie Brown has more spine that these two combined. But the same type of voices as Mr. Hillyer's are saying to me, "but Harold Ford, Jr. would be a lot worse" or, "if you don't vote for Corker you are helping Ford win," blah, blah, blah.

Give it a rest. The Republicans failed. They can't govern. Decent conservatives left politics being so sick of it all. And now, except for the recent primary in Michigan, they don't want to try and get back in the game. So why should we give the same old moderate to liberal Republicans our votes? Because they talk conservative as Bob Corker did?

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