GOP had reason to scale things back

The Republican Party this week has shown a heightened degree of duplicity when they curtailed their political convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Obviously they don't want to be seen partying as another "Katrina" hits the Gulf Coast as it clearly demonstrated not only the impotence of our government then but their nonchalance in handling a humanitarian crisis.

The arrival of Hurricane Gustav gave them an out by not inviting the heads of their party in Washington who were complicit in the devastation in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.

How can we believe any other reason why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney did not attend at such a coincidental time?

Their sleight-of-hand now comes short and can't conceal their true intentions toward the poor, disadvantaged and nonwhite America.

A caring, competent administration, after the disaster in 2005, would have strategically put in place an organization to handle a domestic crisis of this magnitude and still hold a convention.

Where has all the money gone and effort needed to save lives, homes, and property by the Homeland Security Department?

Or has all of our tax dollars been wasted on mismanaged programs and attention getting propaganda in order to continue the mystifying dominance of the Republican Party in America?

After all, with Bush in office almost eight years and being on vacation a year-and-a-half of them, did the country fall apart? No, it did after he returned to Washington.

James D. Cook

Streamwood