Amazing. If you check the website for the Republican National Convention at this very moment, there's no schedule posted for this evening.

Nothing. Zip. Zero.

It takes months to plan a convention, years to arrange sites, and yet the GOP has not released a schedule for today. (Wonder how Twin Cities restaurants welcomed the news Monday night of a session that adjourned a little after 5 p.m.?)

The Democrats claim to be the party of change but look at all the fast work the Republicans are doing.

Former New York City mayor and Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani was to have given the keynote address Tuesday night. That's been scratched. No reason has yet been given.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to have spoken tonight. Now, he's engaged in his state's budget battles and won't appear.

Instead, independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, a close McCain ally and once-possible veep candidate, and former Sen. Fred Thompson, will introduce McCain's biography and celebrate their close friendship with the presumptive Republican nominee. Thompson's speech is titled "The Courage and Service of John McCain," and Lieberman's is titled "The Original Maverick, John McCain," Republican officials said.

Lieberman is very close to McCain, and was thought to have been his first choice as running mate, which would have made history. The Connecticut senator would have been the first man ever to run twice, for different parties, for the post.

This change in schedule should help bring all discussion and focus back to McCain.