Is Vito Finito?

By Sniffles

We're sure that Congressman Vito Fossella is having just a wonderful Mother's Day.

Or at least a busy one — since, as the world just discovered due to his drunk-driving arrest, he has two mothers of his children in his life.

Apparently he's spending the day with his "official" family in Staten Island, which he serves — for the moment — as New York City's only Republican House member.

That leaves us cats wondering, and we must confess not very sympathetically, how the mother of the righteous Congressman's illegitimate three-year-old daughter is passing the time. Brunch at The Willard? Or secluded in her suburban Virginia home, trying to escape from the press?

Well, no matter. Whichever family Mr. Fossella is hiding out with, the hours must be hanging heavy as he tries to decide whether or not to stay in Congress since his hometown paper, The Staten Island Advance, called on him to resign. And since his party leader in the House, Representative John Boehner, effectively cut him loose before the weekend began.

Memo to (the real) Mrs. Fossella: Keep Vito away from the liquor cabinet, and hide the car keys.

In the meantime, although none of us cats is a mother (we've all been fixed), we're spending Mom's Day 2008 PURRing in contentment — as we always do when Republicans are exposed for the hypocrites they are.