Senator Mary Landrieu addressed the Democratic National Convention this afternoon during a session featuring prominent female Democratic Senators. Senator Landrieu appealed to the Democratic Party to keep the recovery of the Gulf Coast from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at the top of the national agenda.
The GOP ran on a platform of reducing the size of government, but after 9/11 President Bush created a sprawling new branch of government and subordinated the role of FEMA beneath it. In spite of its size, the bureaucracy of the Bush White House has become far less efficient.
It is time to bring back the Democratic philosophy of government that Bill Clinton introduced to America when he declared that in 1996 that "the era of big government is over." Barack Obama can return us to the prosperity and safety that comes from a small, efficient, and well-organized Administration.
