A Tuesday Fisking

I enjoy reading the blog A.M. in the Morning, although I doubt the author, Ana Maria, and I would agree on much other than what day it is. She also is a diary writer for the Daily Kos, a left-of-center political blog, which is where I saw this post about a guy self-financing some kind of documentary film project on Hurricane Katrina. What I found most interesting about the post, however, was a quote from Congressman Gene Taylor of Mississippi, which I reproduce below at the risk of once again drawing the ire of his policy director, Brian Martin. Here's the quote: "People say ‘Well, gee. How is it the flood program loses $19 billion the same year that the insurance industry collectively cleared about $60 billion?’ Well, it’s no coincidence. The tax