By ZamboniOn the Republican racist front, Representative Roy Blunt (R-MO) referred to the President today in simian terms. "You have to play the ball where the monkey throws it," he told the right-wing nutheads at the so-called Values Voters Summit. Well, now. Even if Roy Blunt wasn't a bigot — and since he's a Republican, the odds are higher that he is — you'd think he'd have brains enough not to say something like that. Or, maybe not.
Republican racism is nothing new, by the way. Remember that 21 years ago George H.W. Bush rode to the White House on the back of Willie Horton. And Ronald Reagan kicked off his 1980 Presidential campaign with a "states' rights" speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi (site of the 1964 Freedom Rider murders). Not to mention years of bad behavior before that. Wonder how they've gotten away with it for so long? It's partly because the people who determine what is discussed in the media are insiders, not outsiders — and they are not comfortable acknowledging that half of the muckety-mucks with whom they consort are overt racists. Our humble opinion.
Poor Max Baucus. Nobody likes him, everybody hates him, he'd better eat some worms.
We cats have a friend who thinks that George W. Bush is completely uninterested in women. Not that Bush is gay — but that all he cares about is cocaine and alcohol, not sex. (After all, he and Laura may have only had to do it once, right? Daughters Jenna and Barbara are twins.) Well, now we know this friend is right. According to former speechwriter Matt Latimer, Bush said of Sarah Palin, "I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. What is she, Governor of Guam?" Now, we cats heartily dislike Sarah Palin. But we think she's physically attractive enough that a normal straight guy who wasn't hooked on coke and booze would remember meeting her.
Finally, in that same Latimer book, Bush allegedly said of President Obama, "This cat isn't remotely qualified." We are offended. What does George W. Bush know about cats?
Happy New Year!
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