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Losing his temper at the Obama administration:
“It was built up over the whole coastline issue, over the levees. And it was a sense of neglect that I felt that Louisiana had been on the receiving end of for a long time. And … early one morning it just all came up.”
Obama’s drilling moratorium:
“I think that one of the things that we need to do, and some people are doing this, is to go to him with sort of a plan. … The mayor was telling me one of the ideas was to let them drill but not penetrate the reservoir until we know more, but they could get that up and running again. There are any number of ideas. I think we’ve got to be constructive, but if we don’t get this back and running, it will really wreck the economy in south Louisiana.”
Bobby Jindal’s performance since April 20:
“I think the governor has brought a lot of attention to this thing. People sense that he’s there. And I think he’s done a good job.”
Billy Nungesser:
“His heart’s in the right place. He’s trying a lot of things. I think people wanted to take action, and I think [he] wanted to do what [he] could to protect things.”
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“He’s got a really, really big job. And, you know, it’s in no sense an attack — I think he’s doing the best he can under a really difficult situation here.”
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Matalin, is launching a new radio show with Arianna Huffington. “My wife and I were having dinner with our children, and my oldest daughter, who’s just going to be 15, just busted out crying. And she said, ‘Can we just talk about me for one time and stop obsessing about this?’” Carville’s obsession with what he calls the “catastrophe” in the Gulf stems from growing up 65 miles upriver from New Orleans. “I went to high school in Donaldsonville, and back then the teams in our district were the Catholic schools in Thibodaux, Raceland, Larose, Lockport, Golden Meadow, Houma,” he says. “Literally these places are in real jeopardy of — the further south you go — in real jeopardy of not existing. And it’s hard to think of that happening.” His passion for New Orleans likewise is rooted in an appreciation of the city’s unique culture. He has a rant about it that he can call up on cue. “It’s more than a city,” he says. “It’s more than a place. It’s an entire culture. It has its own identifiable cuisine, its own identifiable music, its own identifiable funerals, its own identifiable social structure, its own identifiable architecture, its own identifiable body of literature. … “If this were a city of 700,000 people 20 years from now and it was prosperous but had lost its culture, it would not
On the nation’s long-term commitment:
“If we clean this coast and don’t rebuild it, it’s all going to be for naught.”
New Orleans’ future:
“This is not some paranoid rantings of an old man. Somebody is going to say that it’s just too expensive, the state needs to move north of the I-10/I-12 corridor — I guarantee you. That’s why I always, always point out that what’s happened to us is nothing natural. There’s been two colossal engineering failures. One is a result of failure, and one is a result of negligence, but it’s shoddy engineering that’s caused our problems. It’s not anything else. And believe you me, there are people that want that story line that this kind of place is too vulnerable, too expensive, etc., etc. No way can that story line gain any traction.”
His political training in Louisiana:
“I learned a lot from [veteran consultants] Gus Weill and Raymond Strother. I give them a lot of credit. Cooking and political consulting are pretty good in Louisiana. I would say that most of the things I learned, I learned before I left Louisiana. … It was a good testing ground.”
Modern political discourse:
“I just was in Nevada where you have the Senate candidate talking about Second Amendment remedies. Now, if that’s not across the line, then I don’t know what is.”
Making BP pay:
“They’re the biggest tortfeasor in the history of the United States, and there may very well be criminal negligence here.”
be as good as a city of 400,000 people that had maintained its culture. If we lose the culture, we lose what makes us New Orleans. We become just another place. … I think it’s important for people to realize how special our culture is — and that it’s not something that we can take for granted. We have to want to preserve it.” On cable news, the line between pundit and insider is so porous that two CNN contributors, Alex Castellanos and Hilary Rosen, have side gigs as lobbyists and PR professionals for BP. (The network has said neither pundit will be allowed to opine on the oil disaster.) So the White House was none too pleased when Carville took aim at Obama. “It just looks like he’s not involved in this!” Carville told ABC host and fellow former Bill Clinton campaign advisor George Stephanopoulos last month. “Man, you have got to get down here and take control of this! Put somebody in charge of this and get this thing moving! We’re about to die down here!” The outburst prompted David Axelrod, a senior White House adviser to President Obama, to tell The Washington Post two days later that Carville “has always been a very passionate person,” but that “what I haven’t heard is exactly what he thinks we should do that we
aren’t doing.” Twelve days later, NBC aired an interview with Obama, who said he was consulting with experts “so I know whose ass to kick.” Carville would be glad if his outspoken criticism of the White House led to a tougher approach, but he understands Axelrod’s reaction. “If I was in the White House, I would have been mad at me, too,” he says. “But they’ve got a job, and that’s to protect the president. And I have a job, and that’s to protect south Louisiana. “Nobody in the White House is happy with me,” he continues. “They still don’t like to be criticized, and I understand that. But I thought it was justifiable and I did it.” The situation in the Gulf has even brought Carville and his Republican consultant wife together politically. Matalin ran President George H.W. Bush’s unsuccessful re-election campaign against Carville’s campaign for Clinton in 1992. They married in New Orleans the following year. “I think we’re both sort of focused on getting the thing cleaned up and making sure that people are held accountable,” Carville says. “And I think we both understand how sensitive this is, to get