All emphasis in the following passages are mine but they signify exactly what is wrong with our system today.

Congress under the leadership of the Democrats is far more concerned with upcoming elections than they are the electorate as a whole.

It is a disgrace that once again they choose to abandon their duties in hopes of putting a few more votes in the (D) box.

They may be pulling the wool over the eyes of some, but there are many who will once again see that until we return to some form of bipartisan strong leadership which understands their duties to this country (and it is not perpetual campaigning,) we are doomed to fail on many levels.

“We feel good about our position in the race. You look at the poll numbers, we remain in a very close contest. Since the convention the map has expanded in our direction and retracted for Senator Obama. Of course much of the country’s attention now is focused on the financial crisis that we’re in the middle of, that the entire country’s in the middle of. Senator McCain is going to address this today in remarks. One of the developments over the last week you know as you’ve noticed is that the Obama campaign has become highly negative, highly personal, directed its attacks at Senator McCain. Senator, you know, Senator Reid and the Democrats in Congress today announced that they’ll be leaving Congress and this is a matter that can be dealt with after the election.

The Obama campaign is out there talking about the fact that the financial crisis benefits them politically and then you look at the actions of the leadership in the Democratic Congress, you know we’ll make the case that it’s more of the me-first, country-second politics that at the end of the day there’s a real crisis. American people are threatened by it financially. Congress should stay in there and do its job and not look to calculate and score points politically. So Senator McCain today and in the days ahead is going to talk to the American people about this crisis. He’s going to explain to them what happened, what went wrong, how we fix it, and we will have a dialogue on this very important issue with the American people going forward.”

Much more of this interview here.

Natural disasters used as political footballs. Never!

Oh, but wait, yes they are says Ed Driscoll:

Just telling it like it is.