Should we re-build

Hastert is bound to get some flak for this:

House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t sensible to rebuild the city.

"It doesn't make sense to me," Hastert told the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago in editions published today. "And it's a question that certainly we should ask."

But I think this is an important question to at least ask. Nature has changed the area into an extension of the Gulf of Mexico. Do we need to pump all that water out and hope it doesn't happen again?