Here is a quote from representative Susan Collins' (R-Maine) website bragging about her objections to portions of the stimulus bill:

"After meeting with Mr. Obama, Sen. Collins expressed concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness. "I have no doubt that the president is willing to negotiate in good faith, that he wants to have a bipartisan bill," Sen. Collins said.  "

Here idea of "bipartisanship" is being allowed to strip spending for important emergency programs out of the stimulus bill.  She could get together with Jindal and strip out volcano monitoring I suppose.  If not for Katrina I have no doubt we'd be seeing some other ones with tailored suits and flat asses out there opposing hurricane preparedness (picture Jindal going "but-but-but we actually have hurricanes in Louisiana!").  They come from the same line of great thinkers that stripped levie improvements out of the Corp of Engineers budget for all of those years leading up to Katrina and thought sending the Louisiana national guard to Iraq was a great idea.

Don't forget that these sages now tell us that global warming is a hoax, a non-issue that we don't have to prepare for or attempt to prevent.  Heck, it'll be a good thing!