Gettin’ political

Happy September! You all just missed one of our birthdays, but - believe it or not - there are more important things to discuss than cake and our Rex Tillerson-shaped pinata. This is an election year, by God, and while we’re not telling you to vote for Obama, we’re definitely suggesting you steer clear of John McCain. It’s bad enough that he’s a crazy, warmongering old man who lives in a primordial swamp of ignorance regarding most social issues and is shedding integrity by the day as he bends over backwards for the same people who called him a disgrace and a (*gasp*) miscegenator in 2000. And we’ll leave his snowbilly, aging-prom-queen VP nominee out of this, too.

What really pushed us away from McCain is his energy policy, which includes ending the ethanol mandate despite overwhelming proof that it’s not really affecting food prices. Apparently the market will settle our fuel crisis, because it’s been doing such a bang-up job lately.

Thankfully, not all Republicans are lockstep behind him on this one. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa noted that “if we didn’t have mandates, we wouldn’t have the vibrant energy business we have right now.” Even President Bush, a man who built his reputation on catastrophic judgment, disagrees with McCain here.

It isn’t enough to just throw alternative fuels out into the wilderness and expect to build the momentum we need. Real time and real money and real policy have to be invested into weaning ourselves off oil. That McCain refuses to understand this exemplifies why he shouldn’t be president. Ever.