We cats have stayed far away from C-SPAN and the cable news networks this afternoon. We just hate to see a grown man cry.
But that doesn't mean we don't have observations to share. Here are a few.
Supreme hypocrisy alert: So auto-theft felon and new chair of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa is asking big business to tell him "what [Obama] regulations would harm job growth." He sent the message to companies like Toyota and Bayer and to business groups like the American Petroleum Institute. But the Republican Party consistently insists it's American small businesses that create jobs. Could it be that while the GOP talks a populist message, they're so in bed with big industry that they don't even try to hide it?
Barbara Mikulski is now the longest-serving female Senator. We cats relish this story, not just because we admire Senator Mikulski but also because it's an opportunity to remember how right-wingers branded Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith as "Moscow Maggie," for opposing McCarthyism. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Former Senator Rick Santorum is making moves to run for President in 2012. Oh, please, please, please, can we cats please have Senator Santorum run? That way, we can publish this picture again.
Finally, we digress long enough to include a note about SCOTUS. We note with interest that a former girlfriend of the execrable Clarence Thomas has penned a revealing memoir that will be released in February. (Gee, just in time for Black History Month.) We cats think this is great, and we wish more folks from our side of the aisle would get comfortable with the idea of a good offense. Republicans have to be unmasked for the hypocrites they are. And just because we hate the NRA doesn't mean we can't learn to fire with both barrels.
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