Sometimes, The Price of the First Amendment Seems Awfully High

By Zamboni

Here is one of the most revolting public utterances we cats have heard in a long time: A has-been Republican Congressman spewing racism at the so-called "Tea Party Convention" this past weekend.

The fact that the teabaggers would not only tolerate this language but actively cheer it means that in our minds, they've just joined the dubious company of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Bund and the John Birch Society: all extremists, all terrorists, and all, to a person, losers. They're the kind of scum that America unfortunately seems to spawn from time to time — footnotes in our history books that, wincing, we hurriedly skip.

But wait, there's more. We were so busy SNARLING at Tancredo that we almost missed Sarah Palin's jaw-droppingly stupid interview with Chris Wallace on that right-wing cable network she allegedly works for. Here's how the famous quitter from Alaska described the Tea Party lynch mob: "It's a beautiful movement," she said.

"Beautiful movement," our pink puckered ass. Some days it's just crystal clear to us cats why we're Democrats. Tom Tancredo is Exhibit A. His racist bile is embraced by one of the two major political parties — and it's not ours.