We cats have a litmus test for how well or how badly things are going politically for us Democrats. Would we want to switch places with the Republicans? Although many pundits are saying we should, we have surveyed the news landscape and decided that the answer is no. Here are a few reasons why:
The new jobs report. Gosh — 288,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dips to 6.1 percent, and Dow just topped 17,000 for the first time ever. And that's with a weak, Republican-constricted stimulus. Imagine how good the economy would be if we'd passed a strong one!
President Obama is pushing back on Republicans' threats to sue, and keeping up with executive actions on issues people care about: climate change, immigration, infrastructure. Meanwhile, Rancid Pieface offers no GOP policy alternatives — the best he can do is flail away at Hillary Rodham Clinton. We think that voters would rather hear possible solutions to the country's problems than empty insults.
Big GOP donors are openly pining for their 2012 loser, Willard Mitt Romney, to run again. And if that's not fun enough, every time we check a news site or pick up a paper, we see The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived (If Indeed He Were A Person). What's not to love?
Finally, thanks to Hobby Lobby and their own inaction, the GOP is going to have to run this fall — not to mention in 2016 — on immigration and birth control. We Democrats are looking forward to pounding them over the head — and turning out voters — on both. So we PURR.
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