I know the costs would be astronomical, and the economy’s down and we have wars to fight elsewhere that are sucking up the cash. But wouldn’t it be something special, something inherently American, to have President McCain or President Obama standing in front of a row of new houses in the lower 9th Ward, talking about how we took care of our own and made the city of New Orleans whole again? I think there’s even a ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner lying around that we can use just for the occasion.