The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

Well, it is looking like Gustav is going to hit as a Category 3 sometime on Monday. That mean less time to get out and less time to prepare.  Luckily it has weakened some after going over Cuba. But as the masses of people in the Gulf Coast region are fleeing their homes, the dynamic duo of Grandpa McSame and Palin the Wolf Slayer are rushing in:

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are traveling to Mississippi on Sunday to check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav. [...]

Aides say McCain and his wife Cindy will join Palin in traveling to Jackson, Miss., Sunday at the invitation of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour because of concerns about people threatened by the storm [...]

The McCains and Palin will receive a briefing at the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency — a permanent operations center monitoring hurricane response.

Just what these people need right now! I’m sure they are sooo relieved. I bet they are going to do a "heck of a job."  I wonder if they will be handing out bottled hot water to dehydrated babies?

My guess is that man who ate cake as we lost New Orleans the latest time and the beauty queen doesn’t have a lot by way of hurricane disaster relief to offer. And why isn’t the dynamic duo flying to N.O. to see about hurricane prep if they are so concerned? Mississippi isn't in any of the hurricane models as being in the path of the eye of the storm. It’s kinda like how McSame went into the Green Zone in Iraq with heavily locked-down security team to pronounce to America how safe it is in Iraq.

Yeah, yeah, I’m cynical as all hell about this, but let’s remember how much Grandpa McSame cared about the people that lives were destroyed when Katrina hit:

• McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina. [ 9/14/2005, 2/2/2006]
• McCain Opposed Granting Financial Relief To Those Affected By Hurricane Katrina. [9/15/2005]
• McCain Voted Against Five Months of Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims. [11/3/2005]
• McCain Voted Against Emergency Funding Bill, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief. [5/4/2006]

You can paint lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. The people of the Gulf Coast are not going to forget how they were left to drown. The people in this country are not going to forget the thousands of people locked in the Superdome for six days straight with no food, no water, and no medical attention.  Or at least that is what I hope.