The recent death of Watergate conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder made us cats nostalgic for the good old days of Republican transgression. After all, Watergate wasn't just a tabloid "scandal" — 38 Nixonites broke the law and deservedly went to jail. These days, though, the lines between bad and criminal behavior are a little fuzzier. Here are a few examples that we're pondering this Memorial Day weekend.
Things haven't gone so well for "Transvaginal Bob" McDonnell and his greedy wife this week. They've tried every legal trick in the book to disable the 14 federal counts against them, all to no avail. We're wondering when they're going to pull a Dinesh D'Souza and cop a plea to avoid further embarrassment. (And also like Dinesh, explode with indignation and umbrage right up until they cry "guilty!")
Meanwhile, down in Mississippi, teabaggers are breaking into nursing homes and taking pictures of ga-ga Senate wives. This very strange story has gotten us wondering: How long will it be before Thad Cochran's much-younger mistress surfaces?
More scoop on the recent woulda-been-a-DUI-if-he'd-been-driving arrest of FOX "News" anchor "Gregg Jarrett": It looks like pharmaceuticals were also involved. What we cats want to know is this: Why did Jarrett, just released from an alcohol treatment facility, confess to drinking vodka since nine o'clock that morning?
Finally, just a couple of days from the premiere of HBO's "The Normal Heart," let us remember that unsurpassed Republican criminal, Ronald Wilson Reagan. For years he refused to even speak the word AIDS as thousands of Americans were dying.
How was it possible? We cats HISS.
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