Free the "Impeach Bush" Ornament!

By Zamboni

We cats want to say right up front that we are not disturbed that the ever-repellent Saxby Chambliss won the Georgia Senate runoff yesterday. First, we expected him to. Second, if it helps to elevate him — as a rare winner in a very bad Republican year — to the rank of Potential 2012 Contender, we're happy to see that, too. Let's throw the not-so-Grand Old Party into even more jockeying and turmoil, shall we?

No, what we're truly upset about is that the Deborah Lawrence "Impeach Bush" ornament will not be displayed on the White House Christmas tree. Hey, this is America!

However, we cats do chide Ms. Lawrence, a multimedia artist based in Seattle, for spilling the beans about the ornament's theme to The Washington Post. Duh, Deborah — if you'd just kept your mouth shut, your little bauble might have made it onto the tree. That Bush crew, as we all know, is rather dim. They probably don't understand the complex thought that the ornament bears — inscriptions like "America cannot regain its moral leadership in the world if America cannot hold its leaders accountable for their actions at home." A little over their heads, we'd say.

So, cat out of the bag and all that. But we suspect that Laura Bush's inexplicably high popularity ratings would have gone even sky-higher if she'd turned the other cheek and let the ornament pass. At least, we would have been pleasantly surprised. She could have said something clever like, "I choose to hang this ornament in the spirit of the First Amendment, on which so many of our other freedoms as Americans hang." Oh, well.

Instead, an East Wing spokeswoman named Sally McDonough said of the ornament's rejection, "I think it really is a shame and, quite frankly, not very much in the holiday spirit."

Ya know what, Sally? We cats think that actions like launching wars on false pretenses, raping the Constitution, letting New Orleans drown, and presiding over the biggest economic meltdown since The Great Depression aren't "much in the holiday spirit," either. And season's greetings to you, too. HISS.

(Image: Salon)