Daily Howler alerts us that Lou Dobbs is asking the right question, possibly to the wrong person. To his guest Jesse Jackson, Lou queried about the Louisiana's Democrats' reaction to Bush's suspension of the Davis-Bacon act to undercut wages during the post-Katrina recovery:
DOBBS: Well, let me ask you Jesse, the mayor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana, why in the world aren't they protesting and representing their constituents in this? Because it is on the face of it -- well, the nicest word I can put it is unreasonable to allow open-ended contracts, cost-plus, and put a minimum effectively, to reduce the minimum that workers will be paid.
Although Jackson didn't respond to what the local politicians were doing, the question hangs in the air. We've expressed disgust for both Republican-in-sheep's-clothing New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen "Prayer-in-her-heart" Blanco, and we predict that neither of these maladroit politicians will make a peep in protection of the constituents whose lives their ineptitude has already ruined.
Talking Points Memo and TPM Cafe have followed the progression of the Davis-Bacon Act suspension.
And we remember where we first heard of the Davis-Bacon act, an article by Wall Street Journal hack John Fund and its Orwellian title: Making Life Easier for Folks in the Big Easy. Some might suggest that John Fund is a hopeless fool, but, like everyone from the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed page, John Fund knows exactly what he's doing and whose interests he is protecting. The name of the paper kinda gives it away.
And locally, seems those Wall Street types see Katrina victims as a union-busting godsend in the form of ready-made scabs.
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