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September 21, 2004
Hurricanes for Bush?
Maybe God really does want George W. Bush to be reelected.
After all, if you were Bush, you couldn't ask for better weather than we've been experiencing the past few weeks. He gets to go to Florida repeatedly (as pointed out on the STR home page today) and then to Pennsylvania, two must-win states (not to mention several others), and pretend he cares about people he's never met before and will never see again. Plus, he gets to buy lots and lots of votes in those states by declaring them disaster areas and spreading around billions of other people's money. What more could he want? Perhaps an earthquake in California would come in handy, too.
On a related note, a local conservative talk-show host was talking to our purportedly conservative Republican senator, Rick Santorum, on his show yesterday. The entire discussion was about what money people could get from the federal government as flood assistance and how they could get it. Not once did either of these guys suggest that maybe the federal government isn't authorized to do this under the Constitution and shouldn't be doing it even if it were authorized. Some conservatives!
Posted by Mike Tennant at September 21, 2004 11:19 AM