We cats aren't aware that Commerce Secretary John Bryson has ever been a fierce partisan warrior in the tradition of, say, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Andrew Breitbart or the entire FOX "News" gang. In fact, before joining the Obama Cabinet he was, like many Commerce secretaries before him, a respected business leader.
How sad, then, that when Mr. Bryson suffered a seizure while driving this weekend, all Rove and the Republicans could think to do was to tweet gleefully about how he had to have been drunk.
This makes us cats ill. Add to that Rove's utterly inadequate "apology" and we feel multiple hairballs coming up.
Have they no sense of decency? Can't they just stop? And can we get Karl Rove arrested simply for being a hideous person?
UPDATE: One of our more sympathetic correspondents has pointed out a delicious and disgusting irony: That Karl Rove was the political operative who helped put into the White House a First Lady who was a vehicular manslaughterer, and that he similarly helped land at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a man who was an admitted drunk until he was 40, and whose "bimbo eruption" late in the election of 2000 was not a mistress but a DUI arrest.
Clearly Rove is counting on America, and especially the press, not to have a sense of A) history and B) proportion. But we cats think that in light of all this, if Rove crawled naked over a football field of broken glass to apologize to Bryson, it still would not be enough.
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