If a tree falls in an airport and no one is there to see you speak…

Remember Katherine Harris? She was the Florida cunt Secretary of State who bungled the 2000 presidential election. In other words, she is directly responsible for the fraud that facilitated George W. Bush's presidency. Anyway, now serving in the House of Representatives, Harris decided to trade up and ride the wave of GOP popularity into the US Senate.

How's that working for you, Kat?

In a brilliant/depressing play on words, Harris held a press event last week in an airplane hanger entitled "Soaring for the Senate". As clever as the pun was, the real joke was that how many of Harris' high-profile endorsers showed up for the event.

None of the nine officials listed on her event flier appeared, leaving Harris on her own to address a group of about 40 supporters, reporters and campaign-staff members.


…Harris spoke in an airplane hangar that seemed to highlight the modest size of the crowd. She said a last-minute location change -- required because a tree fell on the hangar where the event was supposed to be held -- kept crowd numbers down.


Airport officials, however, said no hangar had been damaged by a tree and that the rally was in the hangar that had been originally booked.

Isn't it amazing how far Bush cronyism has fallen? Post 9/11, being all buddy-buddy with el presidente meant you got a free ride on any lapses in your resume and were automatically assumed to be tough on terror. Now, Kat can't even get her supporters to support her!

Perhaps the funniest – some would say saddest, but not me – quote came from the one elected official who isn't backing away from his endorsement of Harris. You would think that Representative Tom Feeney must have deep faith in Kat to stand by her in such tough times, huh?

"I endorsed Congresswoman Harris a year ago," Feeney said. "I made a commitment, and I'm going to live up to that commitment."


Feeney was then asked why he offered such a tepid endorsement.


"I won't disclose publicly what I said to Katherine privately," he said. "But that notwithstanding, she decided to run."

Geez, I think Helen Keller could read between those lines. Well at least Feeney helped Kat's campaign come up with a good bumper sticker slogan: "Harris 06: Notwithstanding Friends' Advice".