Flip flop

It’s too bad that George W. Bush wasted those Medals of Freedom on the likes of Tenet and Bremer as Henry Paulson may well have saved us all from financial ruin and prevented a real depression and is truly deserving of the honor.

Of course our die hard brethren of the right wing talk show variety have old Hank labeled a communist for his moves over the last two weeks. Actually by nationalizing banks and insurers he is more analogous to a South American dictator like Hugo Chavez, but who cares he really had to act and move the other players along. The rationalization will simply have to follow at a later date.

Bush, the deer in the headlights, was told to look presidential and act like he knew what he was doing when all of the new policies were announced. By performing that little minuet, he saved himself from being labeled the worst president of all time on two fronts instead of just one. Herbert Hoover still nips today’s man in the White House for the race to the bottom on the economics and financial fronts, but it’s close.

John McCain, the self proclaimed non-economic expert, was out and about denouncing everyone he could remember for greed or malfeasance and was completely against the nationalization of AIG until his experts told him he was for it. But, it’s O.K., he’s got it straight now: he’s for it, and he’s not a flip flopper; just ask him.

John’s back in his comfort zone denouncing earmarks which total less than one percent of federal expenditures and some of which actually do good and all of them grease the process. Of course he’s still lying through his teeth about that bridge to nowhere and about how the administration in Alaska has religion when it comes to taking such funds. In truth they beg for them and take every penny available and then some.

The McCain campaign is also doing its damnedest to denounce the efforts of the Alaska investigator looking into the allegations that the governor misused the office to fire an official who stood in the way of settling a family feud. This is another of those embarrassing flip flops; first they were for the investigation but then they were against it.

It is evident that McCain has no clue about the financial calamity that Henry Paulson is beating back – and we can only hope successfully. Yet, in the face of this once in more than a generation crisis, almost half the nation is willing to elect him president when all he is able to offer are republican bromides as a solution. He denounced Mitt Romney as a flip flopper throughout the primary campaign, yet daily he’s forced to restate what he really mean the day before.

The McCain campaign is also a great place to work. Every day spokespersons have to go on television to restate the campaign position on the one the old man blew the day before. It’s also clear that McCain is simply a commodity for the campaign managers; they have no difficulty in saying that the candidate has no qualifications to run this or that, after all he’s only running for president of the United States.

While perceptive observers might find sense in his statements such when you look down from oil rigs you see fish, many fish, but it takes a degree in environmental science to do so. Of course, lots of his supporters have such degrees, right? Oops!

You’re not going to hold the republicans accountable for the last eight years?

Surely you’re b.s.n’ me.