New Feature: "Lest We Furr-get"

By Sniffles

We cats are consistently dismayed by the media's lack of an institutional memory. We don't understand from whence it springs, but it seems we can't get through a single week these days without Republicans accusing President Obama of something of which they themselves were guilty. We wait in vain for the press to call them on it.

So we've decided not to wait any longer: Welcome to "Lest We Furr-get," a new feature on My Cats Are Democrats. Its purpose: To highlight Republican hypocrisy that too often is given a pass. Here's our first installment.

Back during February's record snowfall, right-wing maniac Senator James Inhofe's grandchildren built an igloo on the National Mall to mock climate change. They dubbed it "Al Gore's new home." Apparently they believed that the blizzards rendered the entire notion of global warming moot.

Well, guess what. Today in the Washington area it's 91 degrees — about 20 degrees higher than normal for early spring. Yet we don't see any Inhofe progeny hustling to the microphones to take back their silly rudeness — nor do we see anyone in the press asking why not. Where's the global-warming-is-bunk crowd now that it feels like August in April?

We're not saying that today's high temperatures are proof of climate change — we believe the scientific evidence presented by President Gore. But once again, Republican wingnuts have tossed their grenades and run away like the cowards they are. And a mere two months later, no one holds them to task for their hypocrisy.

We cats HISS.

(IMAGE: From "8 Ball Bunny," Warner Bros., 1950. Is the little penguin crying ice cubes because he knows the planet's in trouble?)