More: He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.

Shortly after the disaster in New Orleans, McCain did introduce a bill that sought to improve communications mechanisms for first-responders and authorities. The bill failed to go anywhere, and McCain later voted against other bills that had similar provisions.

McCain may talk sympathetically about New Orleans' recovery this week, but the record shows that when it mattered most, McCain failed to act.

when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, McCain was on a tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, greeting President Bush with a cake in celebration of McCain's 69th birthday

This cannot be correct. It's McCain's birthday and he's greeting Bush with a cake in celebration? Is that how you do it in America? Weird.

Or is it an extra special birthday being the 69th? So if he had to have his head up someone's ass then who better than Bush's ass? "More cake, mister president, sir?"

Fuckin Leprechaun