President Obama spoke at the annual Gridiron Club dinner last night. The Gridiron is a lot like the White House Correspondents' Dinner, except that there's no C-SPAN, and no one is supposed to report what happened there, although everybody does. Which means that it gives the WHCD a run for its silliness.
Still, we're happy any time Obama has the opportunity to be funny, because he's so good at it. (Yes, he has great writers. But delivery matters, folks.) And any time you get to mock Scott Walker to his face about questioning your religion, it's a good night.
But the President's reference to politics in the Old Dominion didn't escape our notice, either: "Terry [McAuliffe] loves fundraising. He's the first person who's actually been upset to learn you can't ask people for tons of money once you become the Governor of Virginia. Well, except maybe the previous Governor of Virginia."
After we finished Cheshire-cat-grinning, it dawned on us cats that there were two McDonnells who were convicted of corruption last year. But Obama chose only to joke about Transvaginal Bob. We wondered how quickly the Republicans would have excoriated him if he had also chosen to make fun of Maureen. (The answer: Faster than it'll take the GOP to blame an Obama-led conspiracy if Israel tosses "Benjamin Nutty You Who" out of office on Tuesday.)
So why was it okay in Republican World for Transvaginal Bob to throw his wife under the bus in court? Just one of the many questions about GOP behavior that strikes us as contradictory at best and, at worst, phony to the max. We cats HISS.
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