The anniversary just passed, and there’s a lot of coverage about the reconstruction. Hilzoy runs down the state of the reconstruction. It doesn’t look good. BTW, I just found out that Hilzoy is a professor at Johns Hopkins. I knew there was something about her I liked. Beyond the fact that she’s an excellent writer, I mean.

On top of that, Sen. Chris Dodd has proposed legislation to help close some of the funding and federal leadership issues with the reconstruction. Another reason to vote Dodd in 2008.

While our senior senator is showing leadership on this issue, our junior senator, Sen. Joe Lieberman, is, once again, going back on his word and abandoning the people in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Look, I can respect the desire to avoid a partisan blamefest. The problem here is that Lieberman is in charge of the committee that would investigate the matter. He sets the tone of the hearings and he is in a key position to lead the committee away from being a partisan hunt. That would be leadership, though, and that’s something that Joe Lieberman lacks. So, instead of having public hearings where we can shed some light onto what happened over those few days, and perhaps work out a better response system, we’re going to have to trust that FEMA and DHS have fixed things. Those hearings are also a way to learn from our mistakes.

After all, considering the track record of this administration on, well, anything, do you trust them to fix the FEMA issues without external guidance?