By Miss KubelikWe cats have always found the Republican concept of "corporate CEOs are good at governing" to be specious. After all, we only had to cite the disastrous Administration of "businessman" George W. Bush and his partner in crime, Halliburton executive Dick Cheney, to negate it.
Therefore, we've been more than a little skeptical of the twin California candidacies of Carly "Butch" Fiorina and Meg "Needs a Makeover" Whitman. So, they came from Hewlett-Packard and eBay, respectively — so what? Add to that the fact that Fiorina was sacked with a golden parachute and Whitman left eBay with the company under a cloud, and you begin to wonder why you'd hire them as your office receptionist, let alone your Governor or Senator.
And now comes the news that Whitman shoved an employee at eBay and had to pay the woman $200,000 to avoid a lawsuit.
What an interesting story — especially since we're all agog that Representative Bob Etheridge (D-NC) manhandled an ambushing videographer yesterday. Yes, the Congressman reacted badly, and he's apologized. But call us cats biased — we find it astounding that Whitman, the CEO of a giant corporation, would dare lay a hand on a subordinate. That kind of workplace behavior is, as Fiorina would say, so yesterday.
Does California want a Governor with anger-management issues? That's for the Golden State to decide. In the meantime, we can only assume that Meg, competitive as ever, wanted to beat Fiorina for the title of "newest GOP mean girl." Meow!
(PHOTO: From "The Apartment," which opened in New York 50 years ago today.)
2 comments:
Dear Miss Kublik:
Congraulations on your first report. I am so happy to see you have stepped forward to join your partners and voiced your opinion. You get 5 meows and A Happy Anniversay on your "film".
Thank you! We are very excited, blog-wise, comment-wise and anniversary-wise!
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