200th Birthday of First Republican President a Sad Comment on GOP of Today

By Zamboni

Are we the only ones who thought that President Obama's remarks in the Rotunda today — observing Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday — were a bit of a GOP smackdown?

“[E]ven as we meet here today, at a moment when we are far less divided than in Lincoln’s day, but when we are once again debating the critical issues of our time," the President said, "let us remember that we are doing so as servants to the same flag, as representatives of the same people, and as stakeholders in a common future.”

You be the judge. But in the wake of this speech and his Inaugural Address, we cats think he's really, really good at this. And we PURR and rub up against his ankles for it, because it's been a very long eight years.

Meanwhile, we find that we have to say something about some other Republicans who have been misbehaving.

We were going to ignore the kerfuffle over Congressman Eric Cantor's foolish AFSCME video joke. (Aha, you say, it was Cantor's spokesperson, not the Congressman himself, who erred — but in our minds they're one and the same. And believe us, if the shoe were on the other foot, the Republicans would be saying the same thing.)

But now, we feel we need to rub Mr. Cantor's smug little face in our dirty litter box. Because he doesn't know the rules of English grammar.

"Despite our repeated attempts to work with President Obama and the Democrat majority..." he started to whine the other day.

Democratic, Congressman. "Democrat" is a noun, not an adjective. And we continue to object to GOP attempts to turn it into a pejorative. Would you characterize yourself as a "Jew American"? We think not.

And then there's our good friend Carol Carter, former Hillsborough County, Florida, Republican committeewoman (that is, if indeed she IS a woman), who resigned over a notoriously racist and therefore inherently unfunny joke she sent in an e-mail. She wants her job back. We can only guess that she thinks her grudging half-apology was atonement enough.

What a party. We cats HISS.

UPDATE: Judd Gregg just announced that being a Republican is more important to him than helping the country out of this Bush-incited disaster. As we said, what a party.