We cats traveled to Canada yesterday and are still recovering from the journey. But we haven't missed the following news stories. Here are our thoughts:
So teabagger Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, accepting all the federal largesse that President Obama had to offer, still feels she had to lash out at big, bad, awful Washington. Do we need to remind her that the FEMA she knew under the most recent Republican administration is nothing like the FEMA we have now, under the aegis of a President who believes in the good that government can do? Guess so.
Since when did Newt Gingrich become some sort of Republican eminence grise? It was only a year ago that everyone was laughing at him and his bubble-headed wife. Sometimes, we cats are tempted to agree with the famous quitter from Alaska — that the media are pathetic. Although for different reasons, of course.
This Memorial Day, famous Army veteran Bob Dole believes he no longer has a home in the GOP. Gee, Bob, ya think? Have you been stewing these past six months over that humiliating Senate vote on the disability treaty, and are just now publicly bleating your hurt? What took you so long? After all, there was never any question: Any Republican who worked with George McGovern to help craft the federal food stamp program would be run out of today's GOP on a rail.
Finally, speaking of George McGovern: We cats well remember how the Republicans vilified him in 1972 as an anti-American candidate of "amnesty, acid and abortion." How ironic, since McGovern flew 35 bombing missions over Europe in World War II. Unlike Dole, McGovern wasn't wounded in combat. But guys like them were a far cry from the Republican chickenhawks who sent thousands of Americans to die in fake, ginned-up war in 2003.
So, let's think of George and Bob— and John Kerry, and Max Cleland, and Chuck Hagel, and Daniel Inouye, and Charlie Rangel, and Joe Sestak, and Jimmy Carter, and John Glenn, and Al Gore — and say thanks, guys, for your service (military and public). We cats PURR.
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