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I haven’t spent a lot of time watching David Letterman since I was in college. Oh, I’m still up that late, but I really don’t watch a lot of televion. My TV is primarily for watching movies.

But today, thanks to The Relevant Rhino, I was able to get a dose of last night’s Letterman. The whole McCain suspending his campaign thing makes me angry. It is such a blatant attempt to play on the fears of the American people (and the world) and gain political ground. But I’m not nearly as ticked off as David Letterman is.

I think Mr. Letterman is attempting to teach John McCain a lesson that most people learn at their first job. Don’t cancel with one group of friends claiming you have to work and then go out in public with someone else. Yup, Mccain said he had to work and then ditched Letterman to hang out with Katie Couric. Generally, when a friend does this, at least in my social circle, we call then a “Liar!” and stop hanging out with them.

Can we stop hanging out with McCain?

I know he can’t solve the economic crisis and so does he. Why pretend otherwise? An economic crisis is not saved by an expansion of the national debt to bail out private industry. The economy is solved by sound economic policies. My husband who has never taken an economics class understands the concept–deal with the trade deficit and there will be more American jobs. Is that what you meant, John? Are you fixing the broken trade policies?

No, I didn’t think so. How about offering actual incentives for alternative fuels–like solar and geothermal power. There aren’t even tax credits for geothermal power even though in many regions you could use it to heat and cool your home. How about tax cuts to make Ford’s new diesel-powered car–the one that gets 65 mph profitable to sell in the US? How about building green refineries to better use the resources we have? Sure, that’s what you meant, right?

Nope, you want to throw money at the problem. Well, that always works. Let’s see—it worked for Iraq? No. It worked for education? No. It worked, hell, I don;t think it has ever worked, except maybe in the Cold War when we threw money at the military and bankrupted the enemy while they tried to keep up.

Suspending the campaign is just ridiculous, but doing it so you can go campaign with Katie Couric instead is just plain dumb. We don’t need another president like that.

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