And if they are toxic and unusable, what is the Bush administration doing to get the public’s money back from the profiteer who sold the government defective goods?

And where is Thune when it comes to protecting our Native American citizens? If the trailers are toxic, shouldn’t he be speaking out on the floor of the senate against Johnson’s legislation, and publicly proclaiming that “no way am I going to let South Dakotans live in those”?

And why should Tim Johnson have to do any reasearch on brand new housing trailers bought by the Bush administration? Should he automatically assume they are defective since everything else George Bush did has turned to shit? Or should he assume that because Bush spent taxpayer money that Bush’s people would have purchased quality goods? Should Johnson personally research every new product purchased by Bush?

I guess you just can’t trust Bush to either get good value for the taxpayer dollar – or to get the taxpayer dollar back if the items are defective.

Are you problem solvers, or just third-class partisan hacks? Why don’t you all use your enormous Klaudt to pressure Bush to get our money back? Or should we just let the manufacturer keep the taxpayer money and just store the trailers in Arkansas at additional taxpayer expense? What is your label for the administration that purchased these trailers and didn’t do its research? Negligent? Incompetent?

This legislation allows Tribes to claim them to help eliminate housing shortages on the reservation. If the tribes don’t want them they are not required to take them. But without this legislation tribes would not even be given the opportunity to make that decision, and the trailers would sit unused.

Or, maybe, Tim Johnson has a master plan to slowly kill off the Native American population by giving them cancer from living in trailers that give off toxic fumes when occupied in humid areas. I’m anxiously awaiting part two of his plan, making the Badlands and Pine Ridge as humid as New Orleans. His evil powers have no limits.

“Is Senator Johnson incompetent?” (question from Dugger)

The answer is “yes,” but not so much as W or Thune. Fact is, just about every member of Congress is incompetent. Their training makes it impossible to be otherwise.

The article talks about “off gassing” in hot humid conditions. Have you ever been to southwest SD, the Badlands to Pine Ridge? The one thing it is not is humid.

The concern that #2 expressed about suitability for winter use is a legitimate question. But, if you are currently living in a shack or with three or four families crowded into one small house a travel trailer might look pretty good even during a Pine Ridge winter. It’s a sad commentary on the quality and quantity of housing for the poorest among us.

Of course maybe you would rather they just left those trailers parked down in Arkansas as a monument to George W. Bush.