By ZamboniOnce an anti-Semite, always an anti-Semite.
We cats may sound unforgiving, but we find it difficult to believe that people who've harbored racial or ethnic hatreds ever really change.
That's why we're so appalled at an article in this morning's Washington Post, about uber-Republican Fred Malek. Herr Malek richly earns the "uber" characterization, and not just because he's given more than $1.3 million to the GOP over the years. It's because once again his Nixon-era, Jew-hunting past is catching up with him.
Recently released documents from the Nixon library reveal that Malek "supplied Nixon with a list of 13 people he thought had Jewish surnames" and coordinated other efforts to root out Jews at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nixon, you see, thought that there was a "Jewish cabal" at the bureau that was purposely giving pessimistic economic forecasts to sabotage him. Can we say "paranoia," anybody?
We cats don't know what's worse: That Malek did this? That he's currently an adviser to the famous quitter from Alaska? (Birds of a feather, and all.) That Republican Governor Bob "Confederate History Month" McDonnell of Virginia has appointed Malek to chair a state budget panel and now claims he was "unaware" of Malek's past? (Aren't we entitled to expect better from the governor of a major state — even one who was "educated" at the right-wing Regent University?)
We cats SNARL. We have no idea why any Jewish person would be a Republican. None.
(IMAGE: Conrad Veidt in "Casablanca," Warner Bros., 1942)
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