I'm in beautiful Santa Barbara this week for my wife's family reunion. Some relatives rented an ocean-view house on the Riviera directly above the Santa Barbara Bowl, where Willy Nelson will be performing tonight as we watch and listen from the deck. Not bad!
As the political season crawls through the final weeks, it is healthy that we visit two recent examples of the hypocracy that power breeds. First, the Democrats' "Greenest Convention in History" leaves behind in a pile 12,000 American flags to be trashed. Now Republicans may not yet have achieved a sufficient level of eco-awareness to win over the Sierra sorts, but we do know a great deal when we see one. So the flags will fly again, this time for McCain/Palin in Colorado Springs.
Then we learn that Charlie Rangel (D), who heads the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which, among other things reigns over the tax code, "forgot" to report rental income from property he owns in the Dominican Republic. He assures us it was just an oversight and, being the stand-up guy he is, blames his wife. (Reminds me of the tax audit advice Steve Martin once gave us: just tell the IRS agent, "IIIIII'm sorry, IIII forgot!")
Is this the kind of "change" we can expect more of? I think the "reform" message resonates better with voters.
3 comments:
Actually 460 Colorado State University (my alma mater) students sifted through the trash after the convention for 3 days. How do you think the flags got sorted? Do you think some Republican went though and separated the trash? I don't know any Republican that would get their hands dirty.
I can't believe that Stupid Democrat forgot one house! What an idiot to forget he owned a house. Oh yeah. How many did McCain forget he owned? I think the answer is 3, Glass Houses.
How should you dispose of a U.S. flag?
You should give it to your local government or American Legion Post.
I wonder who from the American Legion gave those flags to the McCain camp?
P.S. I am proud that McCain was able to keep his word about ending partisan rancor for whole 2 days until going back on his word and doing business as usual.
I think McCain was referring to political rancor while in the Senate actually working on legislation not an election battle.
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