Sunday Mitt Romney went on Meet the Press and spoke with David Gregory. Nobody expected old Dances With Rove to hit Romney with anything even approaching a hard question, and he didn’t. Doesn’t matter. Give Mitt Romney a microphone and an audience, he’s almost guaranteed to say something stupid.
Bad News, Bear
He did not disappoint. “I’m not in this race to slow the rise of the oceans or to heal the planet. I’m in this race to help the American people,” he said.
First of all, Mitt, slowing the rise of the oceans and healing the planet would help the American people a whole lot. Especially those Americans who live in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and the eastern part of Texas, who get whacked by hurricanes every August and September. The hurricanes are becoming more frequent and stronger, and a lower ocean level, which could be brought about by not pumping quite as much filth into the air (which causes global warming, which melts the icebergs, which causes the ocean level to rise, which makes hurricanes worse), would help a lot.
But Mitt’s attitude is “screw the planet.”
Here’s a little idea that might help to lower ocean levels a bit, put a few people to work, and reduce the problem of world hunger, all in one go: fish farming. Put little concrete ponds up all over the gulf coast, good for raising salt-water fish, octopi, shrimp, mussels, clams and stuff like that. Harvest the crop around the beginning of July , and let the water level drop. It wouldn’t actually stop the hurricanes, but it would absorb some of the damage.
Plus, there’s the fish.
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