Republican lobbyists can't even PRETEND to care: Party on in St. Paul while Gustav blows in

I heard this precious exchange on Milwaukee's WISN radio last week: Republican party water-carrier Jay Weber (who is spinning himself into the ground this week trying to make McCain's VP choice look merely presentable) and "news" person Ken Herrera are riffing in their "fair and balanced" manner about the then-approaching hurricane.

Weber says gleefully, "Well, you just know the lefties are gonna blame this on President Bush. Just like Hurricane Katrina was Bush's fault."

A pause.

And then Herrera intones ever so solemnly, reassuringly, without a hint of irony; almost a church-whisper: "It wasn't his fault."

Thanks, Ken. Now we realize Bush cannot control meteorological events.

But he certainly can put a disgraced former luxury-horse executive in charge of FEMA and then fiddle while an American city is burning. I don't have to tell you what was happening and to how many people at the very moment our chief executive was a-strummin' his gee-tar with the cool presidential seal decal. But loyalty was rewarded and that's all that matters in an administration and political party built on cronyism.

As penance this year, Bush skipped the convention frivolities. But K Street rocked on, unrepentant.

Comments

[Fred Keller]

Beautiful! Great piece by Brian Ross, as usual.

I can’t fault the “average, citizen-delegate,” if there is such a "thing" anymore, for whooping it up at the RNC, but I do object to elected officials and Party leaders, ignoring McCain’s direction to “tone things down.” These people only care about themselves and power.

Unfortunately for We The People, the GOP hasn’t cornered the market on this kind of elitism and arrogance.

“Hookers & Blow,” how appropriate!

[John Michlig]

I agree, Fred; for delegates, this is a pretty singular event, and they have every right to make an occasion of it and not wear sackcloth because of unfortunate weather elsewhere.

But the damn lobbyists showed where their true priorities lay. Imagine the food that was thrown out ...