It’s all about them and they show no hesitation about using the suffering of New Orleans to their advantage as a prop.

Unreal,this deserves contempt and derision in the media which is just not happening .The same McCain that was literally eating cake with Bush when Katrina hit New Orleans now needs the City and it’s people as back drop .What total shark jumping foolishness.At long last is there no Republican with any shame ?

ST. PAUL — Hurricane Gustav is blowing the Republican National Convention off course with tomorrow’s proceedings all-but-canceled and John McCain floating the idea that he might deliver his acceptance speech Thursday night from the area blasted by the storm.

……….”As long as we properly handle the Gustavication of the convention, it may be a positive,” said one GOP operative. He added that with the exception of speeches by Palin and McCain “everything else is just an opportunity to make a mistake or distract from the historic nature of the ticket.”

…………Gustav takes much of the focus off of Palin and, even if she does speak on Wednesday night, the tenor of her address will likely be much more in her comfort zone; she is likely to avoid direct partisan attacks and instead talk about the fundamental goodness of the country — a recipe for her speech to be well received by a nation looking for encouragement.

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IN voicing his support for the selection of Alaska governor Palin as John McCain’s VP selection, Governor Douglas said, on VPR, that she’s done some great stuff:  for instance, she’s the one who blew the whistle on that famous “bridge to nowhere”–which, the Guv said, was something that “Congress approved.”  

As in, Douglas took the opportunity of a VPR interview to blame the Democratically controlled Congress for one of our era’s most notorious bits of pork-barrel spending, and to praise Palin for pulling the plug.  She’s a hero, right, Governor?

Problem with that:  Palin was a solid supporter of this bit of pork–she flip-flopped later, when the absurd ratio between the cost and the benefit became a subject of some media attention.  And more importantly, the Congress “approved”  the funding for the bridge ONLY because Republican Senator Ted Stevens inserted the funding for it as an earmark into an unrelated bill.  That’s right:  REPUBLICAN Senator Stevens was the guy dipping into the public till for this bit of dubious public works.

So let’s be honest, Governor.  The “Bridge to Nowhere” was a bit of Republican pork all along.  Your attempt to blame it on  a Democratically controlled Contress is either an outright lie, or at best a bit of sleazy campaign-season dishonesty worthy of Karl Rove.  You are going to have to do better than that if you want to retain a reputation for probity, honesty, and worthiness for public office.

It would be great if the upcoming election became a referendum on gubernatorial honesty.  Do Vermonters want a Governor who has no problems joining Bush-Rove-Cheney-Rice in distortion of fact, as long as it serves the party interest?  Or are Vermonters tired of Republican liars?  

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