The Republican National Convention will be safely tucked away in Minnesota.

[Solly Mack]

It won't be them taking the hit.

The delegates and republican representatives from the gulf states are - hopefully - more concerned about what's happening at home than what might be happening in Minnestoa....and acting accordingly.

McCain getting upstaged in the news by death and destruction doesn't bring me any glee.

Yes...I get the irony in people praying for rains of biblical proportion in Denver and a hurricane now advancing on the gulf at the same time as the Republican convention.

Yes, I get the dark humor in it.... I even get the poetic justice of it all...to think you're so righteous that your feeble prayers can bring death and damnation to those you hate - only to have the forces of nature, that you believe the same god you're praying to controls, misfire... in a way that removes your glory from the spotlight.

I'm still not laughing.

My stomach is in knots....all I can think about is Katrina and the aftermath.

We saw the republican response during Katrina. We already know they don't care how many die. We heard the cruel comment by Richard H. Baker (R-LA), "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans," he was quoted as saying. "We couldn’t do it, but God did."


You think they care now? Because to Baker, and many like him, sharing the news with death and destruction isn't a sacrifice when it could bring more of that divine clean up they so highly prize and pray for...

[TheDebbieDee]

1. McCain won't be upstaged by Gustav.........

If Gustav makes landfall and does enough damage, we will have to see endless hours of video of McCain, Commander-in-Chief wanna-be, coordinating the rescue of people and pets in the Gulf region.

[Solly Mack]

2. No doubt that will be part of a political strategy

Using the suffering of others for political gain is nothing new - though beyond disgusting when anyone does it