Saturday, August 30, 2008

No Party for the Grand Old Party?

McCain says he may shorten or even opt out of the Republican Party convention in Minneapolis as hurricane Gustav aproaches New Orleans, because it seems wrong to be engaging in festivities when "people are suffering".

Apparently he hasn't heard yet about the 46,000,000 Americans who have no health insurance, meaning they can't get any health care. He must have missed the bit about the home foreclosures being the highest in even his long lifetime. He probably isn't even aware of the fact that between wage restraint and inflation that American take-home pay is lower than it was in the 1970s. Probably he doesn't connect the problems foreshadowed by the number of people in this country who smoke cigarettes and also that the high-school drop-out rate continues to increase. He must have missed the bit about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and certainly no one has told him about the sad fate of many of the returning servicemen.

Well, there's more - a lot more, but to cut to the chase, now that a hurricane appears to be approaching New Orleans again, he seems to be looking for a way to get George Bush and Dick Cheney off the hook this Monday because they would be the ones hitting Minneapolis as Gustav hits New Orleans.

Pretty Penny.