The Day After The Day After

Last night (June 25th) according to the cable news stations, it was going to be all-Mark Sanford, all the time. Indeed, there were pictures of him at his beach house after a visit with his family. There were interviews with Jenny Sanford as she was about to go on a family boat outing to see the tall ships. She pretty much said Mark was on his own.
Photographs were released of the Argentine paramour. Most men understood. They probably didn’t tell their wives, but deep down in the limbic brain they left what they felt was the cold wife and the kids who hated them for a quick romp before they were shaken to reality as they chased the garbage truck down the street.
There will be a Cabinet meeting at 12:30. Governor Sanford says he won’t resign, but that’s yesterday’s quote. The man is under more pressure than most humans ever experience in a lifetime. There are those speculating he use that time to leave. Andre Baur has to be having heart palpitations.
Still, the world is no longer interested in our governor’s peccadilloes. Just as the world media was sharpening their knives for Mark Sanford, Michael Jackson died.
The cable news people (and even the network news divisions) dropped their regular programming which featured even more focus on the South Carolina governor’s woes for the salacious details of the “King of Pop’s” death.
Indeed, so much attention is being devoted to Michael Jackson’s death that many didn’t realize Farah Fawcett died as well. To tell you the truth the aforementioned husbands are a lot more bummed about that than they are about Jacko.
Jackson’s death wiped Sanford off the international television screens – but not off the local radar screen. Indeed as 12:30 looms, the state holds its collective breath. Will he stay or will he fight on?
It should be noted that both the Sanford and Jackson stories are allowing the House of Representatives to pass the cap and trade “Climate Bill” which the Wall Street Journal is claiming to be the “biggest tax in American history.”
No story be it about an iconic star’s untimely demise or a governor who has lost way, should overshadow this because the financial consequences for every man , woman and child in this country will be devastating.
Yet it has. This weekend, be prepared to wallow in Jackson speculation, videos, interviews and the like 24/7.
This weekend, if the governor is still in power, he should stay under wraps and watch some Thriller retrospectives, and thank his lucky stars that Jackson’s mistakes are a super-nova.
I say Sanford stays. I want this restructuring business finished. God knows, he has nothing left to lose. This might be a way to finally win this battle. He can take it the people in a way he never could.
That’s his trademark. Let’s hope he can use it.
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