In normal times, we cats would think that if there were one thing the two political parties could agree on, it would be that what happened in Selma 50 years ago was bad. And that it's good to observe it, and resolve that it never happen again.
But in today's GOP, that's an impossibility. Which means, we guess, that these are not normal times.
Wait: We cats call bullshit on that. The times are normal. The Republican Party is not. Boy, are they not.
They are so not normal that no member of the House Republican leadership will attend commemorative events in Selma this weekend. This is a mini-surprise to observers who had speculated that moon-faced Steve Scalise would participate so he could make up for the fact that he once addressed a white supremacist group. Whoops! Apparently he, Boehner and McCarthy decided there was no point after all.
We'd say shame on them — except we've gotten so used to prominent Republicans ignoring their 2012 autopsy, which said the party needed to reach out to minority groups, that we're in a total "Inspector Renaud" mode at this point. After all, didn't we just learn that Republican state legislators are frantically trying to figure out ways to get businesses out of having to serve gay people? And never mind the whole let's-defund-DHS-over-immigration thing.
We snicker at the GOP, because we know they'll suffer for all this at the ballot box. But over and above that, we just feel sad. Our country is better than this. So we cats SNARL.
2 comments:
We should be grateful that the Republicans are ignoring the Selma anniversary. By doing so they are forfeiting any chance to pretend they are for racial equality and, in essence, admitting exactly what we
already believed about them.
Interestingly, we cats noted that the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived was there. A stalking horse for Jeb!, perhaps? Otherwise, they couldn't have sent a more hated person to represent their party, which of course proves your point.
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