When Hurricane Isaac showed a looming threat of hitting Tampa, Florida, during the GOP convention, Romney campaign co-chair and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told Fox News, “we’ll keep hoping that Isaac moves as far west as he can.”

Now that the storm has moved west — and is on the same trajectory as Hurricane Katrina, the storm that devastated New Orleans in 2005 — Sununu complained on Fox News today that the media is “obsessed with mother nature” and is unfairly covering the storm instead of the convention:

SUNUNU: We aren’t talking about jobs. It’s the media that is obsessed with mother nature. This is a jobs campaign. 8.3 unemployment, 25 million Americans underemployed or unemployed, and college graduates, half of them can’t find decent jobs. But each of the last four years, it is jobs.

KILMEADE: But you have to admit for the last week it is Medicare, and we’ve been talking a lot about that. No one can help if there is a storm coming. We’ve got to talk that.

SUNUNU: But it is jobs, Governor Romney is the guy to fix the job’s program.

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Sununu’s callousness has been echoed by other members of his party. Rep Darryl Issa (R-CA) said he’d be “fine” if Isaac made landfall in New Orleans, as long as Republicans could win in November, and radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested yesterday that President Obama intentionally messed with the storm track predictions of Isaac to scare Republicans into canceling their convention.

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (the House GOP’s campaign arm). His finance vice chair, Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly encouraging a business partner to file a false affidavit related to illegal campaign contributions — allegations Buchanan denies. A recent local television news report on these and other ethics allegations dogging Buchanan reported that a federal grand jury and the FBI are also investigating the car dealer and third-term Congressman.

Despite House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) promised “zero-tolerance” policy on ethical scandals, Buchanan continues to serve on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and to lead fundraising efforts for his party’s campaign committee. Watchdog groups and Democrats have called on Buchanan to resign — not just from those posts, but from his seat in Congress.

Sessions yesterday brushed aside calls for Buchanan to be removed from his NRCC post. He told the New York Times:

Vern Buchanan is entitled to have a fair hearing. At this point, there is no one that is making an accusation that he cannot sustain. And if it gets to the point where the ethics committee makes some decision, if they do, I’ll be glad to pay attention to that.

He notes that a “huge number of people that are Members of Congress, from outside groups, have been attacked for doing things. He’s not the only one.”

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While of course Buchanan and all politicians accused of political corruption are indeed entitled to a fair hearing, Sessions displays stunning hypocrisy on the point.

One of the most prolific of those unnamed “groups” attacking other Members of Congress is Sessions’ own NRCC. In a section of their website called “Democrats’ Dirty Laundry,” Sessions and his staff attack an array of Democratic members over allegations against them, even though they have not had a “fair hearing.”

Each post begins “SPIN CYCLE: Then-Speaker Pelosi Promised that Democrats Would ‘Demand the Highest Ethics from Every Public Servant’” and then contains an allegation against a Democrat described as “RINSE CYCLE.”

Given Cantor’s pledges of zero tolerance — and the wide array of Republicans serving in key roles under ethical investigation — perhaps Sessions should focus on washing his own dirty laundry and pay attention now.