Today Dana Milbank asks if God has forsaken the Republican Party. He cites the representative caught skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee, Todd Akin, and reports that a hurricane might wipe out the Tampa convention next week.
“Coincidence?” he asks, tongue somewhat in cheek. “Or part of some Intelligent Design?” Conservatives are awfully quick to pronounce other peoples’ misfortune as God’s Judgment, including the drowning of New Orleans and September 11. Why wouldn’t unfortunate events be God’s wrath against them?
CNN reminds us that “Four years ago Hurricane Gustav brought the first night of the Republican National Convention in land-locked St. Paul, Minnesota to a halt.” I had forgotten that, although as I remember Gustav turned out to be something of a bust. At least the GOP was able to use it to keep George W. Bush from turning up in St. Paul.
Weather Underground says that the odds are Tampa will be hurricane-free next week. Even so, a Category 4 storm could immerse the Tampa Convention Center in 20 feet of water. If that happens, I want trapped conventioneers to have to wait a few days to be rescued, and cops should be stationed around town only to keep desperate people wearing Romney-Ryan buttons from looting, not to actually rescue anyone. It would be justice for New Orleans. I don’t want anyone to be hurt, mind you, just to be taught a lesson.
See also Joan Walsh, “The GOP reaps what it sowed.”
Though I don’t want anyone hurt, I’d pay good money to see Barbara Bush visit in the aftermath, and observe how much better off the conventioneers in some relocation facility are now, than they were before.
Of course, sadly, nothing I’ve ever done in my life would warrant any such a thing happening.
Besides, I actually want EVERY second of their Convention covered on TV and radio, lest we miss someone committing and “Akinism,” or saying the “N-word,” because either the power was out, or their appearance was cancelled due to God’s wrath.
When in the history of the world, has there ever been THIS many certifiable loon’s and angry maniacs in one place?
Russia had a lot of villages, and hence a lot of Village Idiot’s, but if they ever had a convention, I’m sure all of the attendee’s were of the certifiable loon variety. Angry maniacs didn’t get many Village Idiot votes cast for them. Rocks cast AT them, YES!
Besides, no one wanted someone like Jim DeMint or Rush Limbaugh for their Village Idiot. It made the rest of the villagers look bad.
Oh, I want the hurtin’. White people in stupid hats resorting to cannibalism… or gtfo, as the kids say.
If he’s a just and loving God he would wipe that GOP vermin off the face of the earth.
The Lord says to the GOP…”The stench of your wickedness has seared my nostrils.”
Justice for New Orleans sounds good to me.
Maybe just a massive power outage in Tampa for a coupla days; that 120% humidity, a plague of biting/sucking insects, and temps in the mid 90’s is punishment enough.
Don’t forget, Swami, Doug Hughes, and I live here……
God has already sent a plague of whores to punish the party of family values. Last week Tampa police arrested 16 early starters who were staking out their turf. By the looks of the mugshots of some of those beauties arrested it seems God is going do a wedding feast of Canaan deal where he saves his best of last.
I hope the conventioneers remember to bring an extra dose of penicillin…I think they’re gonna need it!
The convention center is on the edge of the bay, just a stone’s throw from where Carnival Cruise Lines docks a Mexico liner. So the convention center is only a few feet (I would guess 10 vertical feet) above the normal water level in the bay.
Bottom line – we don’t need a Cat 4 hurricane to flood the downtown. If – and that’s a tricky word – if a Cat 1 moves s l o w i y past Tampa Bay, it will ‘pump’ water in a surge into the bay – and that water has no place to go. This is the nightmare scenario for downtown Tampa, which is on a low shelf with no protection from flooding.
The trajectory of this hurricane as a Cat 1 could put a foot of water into the convention center. If it looks like Tampa could flood, the GOP will pull the plug and??? reschedule in two months somewhere else? I don’t know.
Maybe they should contact Pat Robertson..He’s got experience and a good track record for praying away hurricanes.