The GOP and The Spirit of 9/13

By Zamboni

So a motley crew of right-wing nutbags turned out in Washington on Saturday for a demonstration that was loosely tied to a Glenn Beck-Fox "News" marketing promotion called "The 9-12 Project."

See, the way it goes is this: We Americans need to return to how united we felt after the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. However, from some of the ugly sentiments displayed on their signs, we cats think that the loony-tunes in D.C. on Saturday were more interested in dividing the country than in uniting it. And we're still waiting for Republican leaders to go on the record to denounce all the vitriol and veiled threats, by the way.

Hm. We think we'll be waiting a long time. But in the meantime, we're reminded of something that happened precisely eight years and one day ago. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, chatting away on "The 700 Club" on Thursday, September 13, 2001, knew exactly whom to blame for the terrorist attacks.

Not those 19 guys who hijacked the planes, but us.

Falwell: "What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."

Robertson: "Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population."

Falwell: "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this."

Robertson: "Well, yes."

Falwell: "...The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, the People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"

Two days. It only took them two days to start demonizing. So we shouldn't be surprised at what's happened in the eight short months since President Obama's inauguration.

It's time for Republicans to speak up: Are they with America — or with the domestic terrorists, like the clown pictured above?

While we're waiting to hear, we cats GROWL. And since Jerry Falwell is dead and gone, we dump our dirty litter boxes on Pat Robertson's head.