Palin, Pail Out/ Bailout

It's been awhile since I've posted. Fact is I've been almost as silent as Sarah Palin who, since reading her ghost-written speech off the teleprompter in Denver, has been the least loquacious v.p. candidate since Calvin Coolidge--and with a whole lot less experience than Silent Cal,too.

Like most thinking Americans, I'm not surprised. Even in the prefab speech she delivered for the party faithful, the good governor's vocal tones were only a little less grating than were, oh, I don't know, maybe Marjorie Main's, when she was playing Ma Kettle. ( "Hey, Pawww, git in here and put some shimmer on them sows!")

So, anyway, I figure that they had Ms. Palin stashed away and were doing the Eliza Doolittle bit on her. ("Soft, less nasal,breathe. Now, not 'nu-que-lor' but 'nu-clee-er,' your honor. Try again.")

(And--note to Al Franken-- can't you just hear Senator John as Henry Higgins doing "Who reigns in Spain, I can't recall his name.... I wish I'd got it. I wish I'd got it...?)

Still, since they can't sequester everyone, McSame was out responding to the latest fiscal crisis in his best, instinctive whirling dervish ways. "The fundamentals of our economy are strong...."

Huh?

"Oh, when I said that I was referring to the workers. And I believe in the American workers...."

Would those be the same American workers whose minimum wage bump you voted against a total of 17 times?

"Umm...."

Ah, well...you are a 'maverick' so I guess that, unlike other politicians (including your running mate, by the way), you wouldn't be "for it before you were against it" but "against it before you were for it." You did vote for the wage hike in 2008 but only because it was attached to a war-funding bill that you embraced. (You're consistent there. Pro-war spending but anti all spending on the veterans, including providing adequate body armor for the troops in Iraq.)

And,hey, weren't you the guy who used to say "I think deregulation was good for our economy" before you morphed into your new reformist role?

Yeah, I can see now, Senator, why you've recently come to believe that you are the CHANGE candidate. Hell, you can change faster than the weather in a snow globe--and with a whole lot less shaking, too.

But, buck up, McSame. There are only a few more weeks to go. Then, you can go back to being the same old 90% voting conservative you've always been or maybe even start a new party with your bellicose buddy, Joe Lieberman. I hear he may be looking for one too.