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That’s the split-screen image I think we’ll be seeing over the course of this week.. On the left side of your screen, the ominous charts and pictures of Issac – strengthening into a full-blown hurricane and barreling toward the Gulf Coast – most notably New Orleans as we mark the 7th anniversary of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The RNC powers were very short-sighted on their decision to cancel the convention activities today, while the storm is still out in the Gulf. Tomorrow – as they begin their celebration of regression – millions of people on the Gulf Coast will be preparing for a major storm, again. Wednesday morning, 7am, is when Isaac is predicted to make landfall. If it stays on the current course, the massive storm will come ashore in or very near New Orleans and, by Thursday, its wake will likely be drawing many comparisons to that of Katrina. But the Republicans will be partying up a storm in Tampa.
The smarter call would have been to have a one-day convention today; get all of the necessary business out of the way, and use their vast resources to help the many people in harms way. But this is today’s Republican party… that would never happen!
Today, Chris Matthews lit up Twitter after telling Reince Priebus what he really thought of Mitt Romney’s recent foray into birtherism. And for the first time in a long time, I cheered Tweety!
On the show this morning, another great discussion with the one and only Ted Rall. His new book, The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt is nothing if not thought provoking.
And, being Monday, it was Fools on the Hill ™ with Nicole Belle of Crooks & Liars. Here’s what she brought us today:
Be careful, Sandler faithful, for we are about to take a cruise into Opposite World!
A world in which Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell can say with a straight face that the Republican platform didn’t ‘make any judgments’ on exceptions to abortion. This despite chairing the platform steering committee last week that explicitly said that they supported no exceptions.
And Mary Matalin, who can only keep a straight face because it doesn’t move, tells George Stephanopoulos that it’s Democrats that have a gender problem. Huh? And Jeb Bush (who is looking all the more statesman like in comparison to the intolerant loons in his party) tells David Gregory that the reason women and people of color don’t vote Republican because of ‘tone’. Right. It has nothing to do with overt voter suppression agendas and attacks on women’s reproductive rights. Hmm…catching a theme here? Romney really wants to get the conversation off the war on women and back on the economy, which he thinks is his strong suit. But I have to believe it’s not going to work out so well for him when he petulantly tells Chris Wallace that he’s not going to ‘manipulate his life’ by closing that Swiss bank account. Meanwhile, they may have bumped his speech, but Mike Huckabee isn’t going to go quietly into that good night. On his show, he used the GOP campaign to dump Akin to revive the Obama infanticide myths.
