KATRINA RECOVERY ISSUES

The latest word is that residents of New Orleans' driest sections may be able to start moving back home as early as Monday. But the city is still 50% under water. This may be the time to start planning for an interim census of the whole Gulf Coast area, and absentee voter registration for those who can't get home yet. Otherwise, several legislative districts may just be wiped out. And most of them, in all probability, will be Democratic districts. Since God's Own Party appears to believe in multi-party elections only in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress will need to be heavily lobbied to get started on reconstructing these constituencies.