Why Is This Man Smiling?

By Zamboni

We cats think we know. Already it's starting to dawn on folks that rope-a-dope works.

Meanwhile, we have a few lingering questions from yesterday's events.

Since President Obama had to send his personal lawyer to Hawaii to pick up the long-form birth certificate, shouldn't taxpayers be reimbursed for that trip? We cats suggest sending the bill to A) Orly Taitz, B) Franklin Graham, C) Mr. Triple Combover, or D) the Republican National Committee — since GOP leaders were too frightened of their crazy-ass base to repudiate them.

So how will nutcase Jerome Corsi deal with the fact that the rug has been pulled out from under his silly new book? We cats urge all sane, clear-thinking Americans to complain to Amazon and to any local bookstore that carries the thing.

We cats send big PURRS in the direction of CBS's Bob Schieffer, who last night spoke the obvious truth — that birtherism is racism — and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, who tossed the execrable Ms. Taitz off his show.

Finally, as for the ridiculous Ivy League bit, we cats have these questions for Mr. Triple Combover:

• How come you never asked how George W. Bush got into Yale?
• How come you've never demanded to see Bush's transcripts? (Bush, a known embellisher, always said he got by with Gentlemanly C's. How bad were his grades, really?)
• How come you've never demanded to see Bush's National Guard discharge papers?
• How come you've never asked to see Cheney's Vietnam War deferment papers?
• How come you've never demanded to see court papers on Laura Bush's vehicular homicide?
• How come you've never demanded to see SEC filings on Bush's failed oil ventures?
• How come you've never demanded to know how Bush parlayed a tiny investment in the Texas Rangers into a huge windfall?

Is all this because President Obama is half-black — and George W. Bush is all silver spoon? As we were saying, we cats think we know.