Ya know, if John Boehner kicked every extremist out of his caucus tonight, Nancy Pelosi would be Speaker again.
We cats say this with scratchy tongue in furry cheek, because we know what's going to happen with the whole Steve Scalise situation: A flurry of attention, a fading into the background, and Republican silence. Which the media will let them get away with.
We are so sick of it all. If a Democrat spoke to, say, a prominent Palestinian group, the GOP and their media enablers would be all over it. But a sitting member of the House leadership addresses a bunch of white supremacists, and nobody bats an eye. When is this double standard, not to mention the repulsive behavior in the first place, going to stop?
And since Rancid Pieface and the entire Republican Party are so proud of their successful 2014 Congressional, Senate and gubernatorial candidates, when are all those newly elected Republicans going to declare their outrage about Scalise? Where is Mia Love on this? Ben Carson? Tim Scott? And why can Republicans like Rand Paul get all umbrage-y about accusations of party racism — but stay quiet now?
But let's not stop there. Let's fast-forward to 2016. The question for a candidate like Ben Carson, who thinks the only racists are Democrats, is this: "Dr. Carson, if Steve Scalise offered to endorse you today, would you accept his endorsement?" For that matter, would Jeb "Mr. Moderate" Bush accept a Scalise endorsement? Would Chris Christie? Rand Paul? Rick Perry? Any of the rest of them?
Scalise should be the first question at the opening Republican debate. Of course, no one in the press will ask it. We cats hack up a hairball, and we HISS.
(IMAGE: Steve Scalise, David Duke. Any questions?)
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