We cats generally are nocturnal creatures, but last night's events were too much even for us. Now that we've gotten some sleep, had an opportunity to surf around, and have let the bin Laden news sink in, we have a few thoughts. We'll stay on the political side since most of the other genuinely profound and moving stuff has already been said.
Yes, Mr. President, you are absolutely right. We Americans "can do whatever we set our mind to." Especially when we're not invading countries that didn't attack us, or outing covert CIA agents. (We know that you can't say this, but we can.)
We've watched with interest the Republicans' reactions, and must admit to a tiny bit of glee that they've had to finally give the 44th President of the United States some respect. But as for the clown convention that passes for their 2012 Presidential field, apparently Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty are the only grownups in the GOP rubber room.
Speaking of Republicans, right-wing Planned Parenthood demonizer Mike Pence has been forced to cancel his scheduled political announcement today, whatever it was. Therefore, from now on, any time President Obama outmaneuvers the GOP and makes them do things they don't wanna do, it will be known as "being Penced."
Is it true that Osama bin Laden's last words were "I love the Tea Party"? Just thought we'd start the rumor.
We wonder where Michele Bachmann was last night and how she heard the news. You may recall that Bachmann was grudgingly put on the House Intelligence Committee after Boehner and Cantor blocked her for a leadership post. Which means that Vice President Biden didn't call her (he only notified leaders). A normal person would have been told once her committee chairman was. But given her testy relationship with the House GOP hierarchy, we think there's a possibility Bachmann wasn't. In short, if she was at home with her closet-case husband and heard it on TV, we'd say she has been, um, cut out.
Mitch Daniels was getting a lot of pressure to jump into the 2012 Presidential race last week. Doesn't look as inviting today.
And yes, in case you're wondering, we cats have indeed checked out our nutty friends over at Free Republic. (In fact, we visited them very very early this morning, to see how they were coping. Incredibly, they were speculating that bin Laden had actually been killed a week ago, but that the White House had delayed the news in order to wipe the birth certificate story off the front pages.) Today, they just seem baffled and subdued: Only three people have commented on the "it's a great day to be an American" thread. Maybe we can keep them that way long enough to throw a butterfly net over them.
We cats PURR.
UPDATE: Already the speculating has started as to whether this is President Obama's greatest accomplishment. What — this, and health care reform, too? Goodness gracious.
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