"Remain Calm. All is Well."

By Baxter

There really are only six degrees of separation between actor Kevin Bacon and the rest of the world. In election 2008, it's between Mr. Bacon and presumptive GOP nominee John McCain.

Remember Mr. Bacon's futile attempts to quell the the riot at the end of the movie Animal House? This is essentially what Senator McCain is doing today — trying to tell the country that everything is hunky dory as the American economy tanks all around us.

Just see for yourself. Here's the latest ad from the Democratic National Committee:



Now, we cats are known to be a little skeptical, so it doesn't surprise us that a guy who's married to a beer heiress would be out of touch with the economic problems of most Americans. (Mrs. McCain won't release her tax returns, but she's reported to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. That kind of money buys a lot of Friskies — not to mention homes, cars, vacations, college educations, and tanks and tanks of gas.)

And Senator McCain isn't even mentioning here the billions of dollars that we're wasting in Iraq — a war he's willing to have go on for 100 years, and which The New York Times Magazine predicted in April 2003 would explode the deficit and cripple the country.

Oh, well, never mind all that. Remain calm.

We HISS at Senator John McCain, for his less-than-straight talk to the American people. And we PURR at Howard Dean and the DNC for holding Senator McCain's feet to the economic fire.