By Sniffles
The very type of storm that scientists and others have been warning us about for years slammed the East Coast of the United States yesterday. With all the damage and the deaths and the vast inconveniences to people's lives, the 2012 superstorm has finally gotten some politicians talking about long-range planning for climate change.
That brings Cheshire-cats grins to our furry faces. But our satisfaction is tempered by the knowledge that one of our nation's two political parties believes that global warming is a hoax. One of our nation's two political parties officially supports a budget that would gut the Federal Emergency Management Agency and hold disaster dollars hostage to matching spending cuts. One of our nation's two political parties thinks that paying for weather satellites and hurricane centers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a waste of money.
And what did that political party's nominee for President of the United States do today — the guy that the party that doesn't believe in climate change or federal disaster assistance or NOAA thinks should live in the White House? He carried bags of donated crap at a cravenly retooled campaign event in the key battleground state in the country. Willard Mitt Romney pretended to care about the 47 percent of America he loathes by collecting stuff that the Red Cross doesn't even want. (They prefer your money or your blood, thank you very much.)
This is one of the most obscene things Romney has ever done. Ever. Really. Not just because he's so transparently insincere — but because he heads a party that doesn't just refuse to fix the long-range problems that our country faces, but is unwilling to commit the resources to help our citizens in need.
So, we cats SNARL in Willard's simpering face. We hack up a hairball on his crisply pressed Brooks Brothers slacks. And we dump our dirty litter boxes over his perfectly coiffed and oh-so-carefully-dyed hair.
Election Day cannot come soon enough.
2 comments:
You're right. This food drive was not only despicable, it was stupid. The Red Cross doesn't want the food, as you say, they need money and blood. Interestingly Romney has both money and blood, but I didn't hear of any major contribution to this disaster fund and I certainly didn't see him rolling up his sleeve to offer some of his very blue blood.
And that would have been so easy! So, add to his other damning qualities — indifference, contempt, a sense of entitlement and a complete disconnection to the real world — his breathtaking stupidity. He's giving Bush competition for the title of Worst Person Who's Ever Lived.
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