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February 1, 2006

Shrillary Joins the Tinfoil Hat Brigade

Posted by Dave Blount at February 1, 2006 6:45 AM

Shrillary Clinton's efforts to reclaim the affections of the lunatic Left are becoming embarrassingly desperate. Not only did she join the pathetic campaign to filibuster the supremely qualified Samuel Alito, she has now officially joined the Tinfoil Hat Brigade by hysterically charging that W's failure to have New Orleans rebuilt already is the result of a Rovian conspiracy. The New York Sun reports:

SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Clinton told a largely friendly audience here Saturday night that the slow pace of government-sponsored reconstruction following Hurricane Katrina was the result of a deliberate decision by the Bush administration and may have been motivated by a desire to discourage Democratic voters from returning to the devastated region.

"I think that basically we are now watching a deliberate policy of neglect take root," Mrs. Clinton said during an appearance at a fund-raiser for legal services charities. "It is deeply troubling for any American to believe that your government would abandon such a huge part of our country and such an important part of our history."

Mrs. Clinton said she suspected that the assignment of President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, to oversee the relief effort indicated that political mischief was afoot. "Cynical minds might suggest that the destruction of the Democratic vote in Louisiana was a mixed blessing. If you rebuild New Orleans, all those Democrats might come home," she said during a 90-minute public interview conducted on an auditorium stage by a former television host, Jane Pauley.

As OpinionJournal points out:

Wouldn't it be more cynical to rebuild portions of New Orleans that are below sea level and thus leave "all those Democrats" vulnerable to natural devastation, all for the sake of keeping them on the Democratic plantation?