By ZamboniWe cats have had some discussions with fellow liberals recently about the left's alleged impatience with the Obama Administration. This picture pretty much sums up our reaction to such discontent.
In other words, we just can't get all outraged right now. First, the Administration is barely three months old. Second — and more important — ideological purity gets you nowhere.
Do we agree with absolutely everything President Obama has done so far? Heck, no. But we understand that he won a resounding victory in 2008 with more than just lefty votes like ours. Therefore, we have no interest in weakening his hand by criticizing every move of his that isn't All Liberal, All The Time. It's just not realistic. And anyway, after eight years of Bush we vastly prefer having a President with whom we agree 90 percent of the time — instead of insisting that he toe our line 100 percent of the time.
Meanwhile, what we ARE enjoying is the current sorry state of the right wing and the GOP. And we don't understand why our humorless liberal friends can't get into it, too. Gosh, the wingnuts are a mess. They're mad at Rick Warren, planning silly "tea parties," trashing Levi Johnston and Meghan McCain, embarrassing themselves with bad budget pressers, obsessing about President Obama's birth certificate, worried sick about gay marriage, screaming about socialism, fascism and Marxism, and trying to get Michael Steele fired. What's not to love?
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