We cats frequently think we've seen it all. Only to be proven — to our astonishment — wrong.
To wit: It becomes apparent that in President Obama's attempts to govern, the Republican Party couldn't go any farther off a cliff. And then Mitch McConnell steps in and hands us a gift. We know it's a gift because the right-wing maniacs over at Free Republic think that McConnell should be burned — and not just in effigy.
Well, good. But unfortunately, other obstacles remain. At the risk of offending people, we cats present the small example of Betty Ford: An Historical Figure Who Faltered.
We're sure we'll vex some readers by speaking vaguely ill of the dead, but we cats find it unacceptable that the heretofore outspoken First Lady Betty Ford remained silent on the extreme-rightward tilt of her political party. How much influence Mrs. Ford could have had in the GOP, had she only objected to her party's enslavement of women.
It's testimony to the sorry state of the Republican Party today that we have these thoughts, and that Cokie Roberts has said she'd been asked by Mrs. Ford to eulogize a time when Republicans and Democrats in Washington were friends.
That, as we've pointed out before, is a very long time ago. Lee Atwater, we're sure, is burning in hell as we speak.
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