Cat Fight! — Republican Party vs. Itself

By Zamboni

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) recently joked that she'd like to grab some popcorn and a Diet Coke and watch the Republicans self-destruct. Boy, she wasn't kidding.

After the faux filibuster drew to a close today and the Senate voted unanimously to move forward on the Bill That Will Go Nowhere, the 2008 GOP nominee for President rose to speak.

"Elections have consequences, and those elections were clear," John McCain said. "A majority of the American people supported the President of the United States and renewed his stewardship of this country."

McCain made these remarks a bare two days after a news story — which he has not bothered to deny — alleged that he "effing hates Ted Cruz." We cats wonder if McCain realizes the irony. That's because by choosing the famous quitter from Alaska as his running mate, John McCain helped create Ted Cruz — who might not have won his Senate race three years ago had Sarah Palin not ridden to his rescue.

Meanwhile, the GOP self-immolation continues. A heretofore low-profile Senator from Arkansas is reported to have ripped into Cruz at the closed-door Senate Republican Conference yesterday. Who is leaking this stuff? That's a sign of GOP chaos as much as everything else.

The John-Boozman-screaming-at-Ted-Cruz story was the tipping point for us: We simply had to see what the crazies over at Free Republic were saying about the very, very conservative Republican who knocked off Blanche Lincoln in 2010. And, ta-da! — it's just about what you'd expect in a party that's destroying itself for no reason.

• "Who the h*** is Boozeman [sic]? Never heard of him."
• "Time to flood his email & phones with complaints."
• "Boozeman [sic] just inadvertently lit up the 'primary' sign."
• "Another toady for the Marxists wearing a GOP collar with a DNC tag."
• "Cruz has flushed out the Republican traitors and collaborators."

 Here's our favorite:

• "From today forward, every RINO senator in every state who runs for office should be primaried by Tea Party candidates. If the TP candidate loses, we don’t vote."

"We don't vote"? Love it! We cats PURR.