Sorry, Chris Cillizza: The Worst Week In Washington Was Actually Had By...

By Baxter

We cats beg to differ with young Chris Cillizza, who hasn't been around as long as we have and who we think doesn't always know what he's talking about — bless his heart.

So we're starting a new My Cats Are Democrats feature: Sorry, Chris Cillizza. When the mood strikes us (and you know how moody we cats are), we will post who we really think should receive Cillizza's "Worst Week in Washington" award. Like, for example, this week.

Lamely, Cillizza names John Boehner this week's dubious winner. How boringly inside-the-Beltway. And how wrong: We believe that Boehner is well-pleased with how things have worked out for him, shutdown-wise. He won't go down in history as the Speaker who allowed default, and the teabag crazies in his caucus appreciate the fact that he acted like an idiot on their behalf, right down to the end. So his job is safe, which is all he cares about.

Therefore, here are the real winners of the Worst Week in Washington:

• Larry Klayman — The guy who was too crazy even for the nutcases at Judicial Watch embarrassed himself and the teabag movement with an appalling speech at the Couple-'o-Hundred-Veterans march in Washington on Sunday, thereby introducing Obama Hate to the horrified country at large and setting back his cause about three centuries.
• The Idiot Who Carried the Confederate Flag in Front of the White House — Once again, a classic case of someone who wouldn't have been noticed except for the whole shutdown thingie. Instead, the eyes of the nation were fixed on how awful these people are.
• Grammar — Will the teabags ever learn that "We, the People" cannot be used in an objective sense [above]? They cannot wave signs that say "Stand Up For We, the People." But the Preamble to the Constitution doesn't say "Us, the People," does it?
• The NRSC and NRCC — The lazy media might insist that the shutdown happened one year too early to have an impact on the 2014 elections, but we cats know better. The political world is in the heavy-fundraising-and-candidate-recruitment season right now. We're seeing Democrats step forward in key districts where the GOP is flailing — and while Republican donors are hanging onto their wallets.
• Rancid Pieface — Where, oh where, has the Republican National Committee Chairman been while his party is imploding? We suspect that Pieface has spent the week pie-eyed. We cats PURR.