Paul LePage, Maine's whackjob Governor, is somebody who squeaked into office in a multi-candidate race and whom we cats would dearly love to see shown the door this year. We've always known he was bad news — rude, crude and racist, like so many of his teabag friends.
Until recently, though, we just didn't know how bad.
Turns out that LePage has held eight meetings, totaling 16 hours, with members of Maine's "Sovereign Citizens," discussing — among other things — executing Democratic state legislative leaders for treason.
(That's because SCs ridiculously believe that all citizens have the right to petition the government to change laws they don't like. These petitions are called "remonstrances." Once an official receives one — as several Maine legislators have — he or she must act on it or resign. It's the screwy story behind all the "traitor" accusations flying around.)
Now, we cats would like to point out one tiny detail that may get lost in all the let's-execute-the-Democrats threats. One of Loony LePage's enthusiastic fund raisers is none other than Mr. Reasonable, Mr. Savior-of-the-Republican-Party himself, Jeb! Bush.
Which brings us to a couple of questions: When are the media going to stop lazily repeating stock lines like "Bush is a moderate," and start connecting the dots? And why are this LePage guy and his Sovereign Citizens friends not in jail? We cats HISS.
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