Posted by
voice_of_reason on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:26:36 AM
Now in the 9th month of his first term, President McCain has reached a Katrina moment ...
* President McCain's administration says that less than 10% of the promised doses of H1N1 vaccine are available as the peak of flu-season approaches
* The administration admits that it has had months to prepare for the outbreak of swine flu; however, it laments that "it is just not possible to make eggs any faster".
* No one questions the reasons why Govt controls the distribution of vaccines, nor do any investigators look into the reasons why most vaccines are made in Europe. Could there be any causal linkage between the Govt-mandated price control that is imposed on vaccines and the shortage? To admit that would be an act of unpatriotic honesty, and might undermine the ongoing philosophical debate on other forms of price control that are looming large in the Health Care debate.
* Kanye West complains bitterly that President McCain doesn't like people who are poor, young, old ... nor does McCain care much for minorities. Mr. West makes an impromptu speech at an awards ceremony where he expresses his outrage that a young woman has won an award that was reserved for one of his friends. In a moving tribute, he snatches the microphone from the hands of the young, first-time award winner and makes his famous "Ich bin ein jacka$$" speech.
* the media howls with unabated fury as H1N1 cuts a swathe through the American population. Cradling a young, dying girl while gazing moistly at a nearby TV camera, Anderson Cooper makes a heartwarming plea to President McCain: "Please, Mr. President ... can't you see ... that people are dying here?" Then, with an anguished glance at his viewers, he pleads, in a voice thick with emotion: "Turn that thing off ... please ..." As the camera fades out, the photogenic newsman is seen brushing the hair from the forehead of the young victim, while a teardrop rolls down his tanned face.
* In a heartless display of mixed-economy values, President McCain chooses this precise moment to take over the parts of the American Health Care system that have managed to stay outside the Govt's grasp. His eloquent speeches, which so touchingly moved a nation a year ago, ring hollow with phrases such as: "Look .... let me be clear ... make no mistake ..."
* President McCain's advisors, unsure of how to use their main tactical weapon [their leader's oratory], decide to focus on Fox News and talk-radio, the only functioning sliver of an otherwise numbed-down media.
* The Nobel Peace prize is awarded to ... President McCain. Some people are heard muttering: "but, he's done nothing to earn this".
* But, even as his Neanderthal critics raise their voices to a gentle murmur, President McCain squelches their outburst by publicly re-evaluating his options in Afghanistan. How bold and yet, thoughtful! What timing! What exquisite nuance! How wonderful (and tingly) to live in a country which publicly questions its national focus for reasons of political expediency!