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Watching helpless New Orleans suffering day by day left people everywhere stunned and angry and in ever greater pain. These things happened in Haiti, they said, but not here. "Baghdad under water" is how former Louisiana Senator John Breaux described his beloved city, as state officials told him they feared the death toll could reach as high as 10,000, spread across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. No matter what the final tally, the treatment of the living, black and poor and old and sick, was a disgrace. The problem with putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking...
...Casey were denied a speaking slot because he was anti-choice, why weren’t the equally anti-abortion John Breaux, David Boren, Rich Daley, and five other anti-choice governors also prevented from speaking? As Mandy Grunwald, who produced Bill Clinton’s 1992 commercials, told me: “We said all you have to do is endorse our party’s candidate for president, and [Bob Casey] refused, and that was it….There was no abortion litmus-test...
...Breaux: I'm leaving not because I'm unhappy or mad about the Congress. I've been here 32 years in the House and Senate, and I've enjoyed every single minute of it. Some minutes I've enjoyed more than other minutes. But I think that there is a danger that has come upon the system, where we are running a risk of not being in control of our own destiny as a Congress. There are so many outside forces that try to dictate to us what we do, when...
...Breaux: We need more interaction between the two parties. I remember [former Louisiana Senator] Russell Long talking about the number of joint lunches [Democrats and Republicans] used to have, where they used to sit down and hear each other out. We don't do that anymore. A lot of the new Senators are from the House. And I would hope that they wouldn't bring the House mentality to the Senate, because it's really a poisonous atmosphere over there. [Representatives] really don't like each other in a lot of cases...
...Breaux: I came to the House in 1972 and then came here in 1986. I left the House and the [Democratic] majority to run for the U.S. Senate, [where Democrats were] in the minority. But to represent the whole state and to be involved in more issues was worth it. I always wanted to simply say, 'Let's make government work.' And I've been very satisfied. Some frustrations, of course, but I think we've been able to get things done...