Extraordinary Badness

By Zamboni

Losing Harold Ramis today was, in one of his favorite "Ghostbusters" expressions, "extraordinarily bad."

What a coincidence that today's political scene could also be described that way. While we usually choose to indulge in Cheshire cat grins over right-wing Republican foolishness — knowing that it hurts them far more than anyone else — let's review some of the truly, incredibly, outrageously awful stuff we've been seeing lately.

Ted Nugent, whom we would post about a lot more but don't because we don't want to give him more publicity, is out with the Hitler analogies again. This is extraordinarily good for Wendy Davis— but for Greg Abbott, who is campaigning with this nutcase, extraordinarily bad.

Chris Christie's new habit of dodging the press — most evident on his recent RGA road trip — is lame, pathetic, immature and, for his future political aspirations, extraordinarily bad. When will the Republicans wake up and boot him out of that chairmanship? Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker and Mike Pence and John Kasich and Jeb Bush want to know.

A bill to allow Arizona businesses to blatantly discriminate against gay people is heading for Governor Jan Brewer's desk. We cats think she will not sign it, but it's amazing that it's even gotten this far. And in the meantime, John McCain is urging her to veto it — which will guarantee him a teabagger challenge if he runs again in 2016. For Democrats, that's good — but for McCain, extraordinarily bad.

Viktor Yanukovych's taste in interior decoration is extraordinarily bad.

Finally, an anti-choice Republican state senator here in Virginia has amended a Facebook post in which he referred to a pregnant woman as a fetus's "host." We cats think that this person is a jackass, and personifies the entire Republican Party's attitude toward women. And were it not for the amusing fact that the senator's name is Steve Martin, we'd call him extraordinarily bad.