I'm not altogether certain that this is going to work for Senator Allen. I'm not sure this whole thing is not going to backfire.

I think there's a political downside for Allen, and a political upside for Webb, if Webb takes advantage of it.

Challenge Allen to debate your record. Challenge to debate whether or not literature should be -- should be censored.

It's Iraq. There are other things that people are frustrated about, but this is the big one.

It's Iraq. And -- and it's clearly the -- driving people's attitudes toward -- toward the country. It's clearly driving the wrong-track number in the country. And -- and people are clearly frustrated about it.

I think a lot of people are fearful we will be there for another 10 years.

I think now that it's -- it's a little bit different, that Iraq is one -- is -- is one of the things that causes people to -- to have a negative lens upon which they look at the country.

The corps should not be in the business of trying to second-guess cost. That's Congress's role. The corps should do what Congress directed them to do. Give us the best science, give us the plans, give us the designs for Category Five levee…

I can tell you exactly how they're going to react. That Congress is protecting itself. That Congress is hiding something. I think that is enormously destructive.

It should have been anticipated before they made this decision.

Yes, I don't know, and I'm not sure it would be politically good for him.

This is unprecedented. And the idea to say, well, there's 7,000 others is a little bit like saying, well, you know, 5,000 planes land safely and a couple of them collide in midair and you want to spend all your time covering that.

Stop wasting money through FEMA. Start rebuilding the Gulf Coast, and give us money to restore our coast and build our levees, and then we can take care of the rest ourself.

Senator Landrieu's bill would get all participating states to have a media campaign -- it's required -- and she would link all the states in a national registry which would protect a father no matter where he was and where the mother was.

Our future of this coast depends on the government getting in their mind that what we have is not sufficient. We need to build a better mousetrap.

This temporary assistance was basically built around your normal hurricane situation. We don't have a normal hurricane situation.

His sister, Mary Landrieu, is a U.S. Senator from Louisiana.

It does not surprise me that FEMA would waste $300 million. So, again, that picture of those trailers and that whole story is just another evidence that the old kind of contracts are not working for this new desperate situation.