Wow! Like the rest of the world, we cats could not have been more surprised by the results of Thursday's election in the UK. Who conducted all those surveys before the vote, Mitt Romney's pollsters? We may have more comments about all this at some point, but for now let's just say we think Ed Miliband should be relieved that he's living in the 21st century and not the 16th.
Meanwhile, here are a few other political stories that have caught our attention, based slightly closer to home:
Chris Christie is in New Hampshire, trying to jump-start his flailing campaign. Those lucky Granite Staters! They have to put up with a guy who's at 3 percent in the polls, but at the same time they get opportunities to badger him about Bridgegate. Fun for us Democrats, but we're wondering why the media aren't pointing out that Rudy Giuliani tried to reboot his desperate 2008 campaign in the very same state — and with the very same people at the helm.
Also today, "Jeb!" Bush went to Liberty "University," to try to suck up to the right-wing religious nutcases there — you know, the folks who are mad at him because the "let" Terri Schiavo die? And he said the thing that we cats have been screaming about for as long as we can remember: This guy is no moderate. “I am asked sometimes whether I would ever allow my decisions in government to be influenced by my Christian faith...Whenever I hear this, I know what they want me to say. The simple and safe reply is, ‘No. Never. Of course not.'" Jeb! went on to label keeping religion out of public policy as "political correctness" — when we cats would simply call it separation of church and state. But will this get noticed? Earn a mention on the Sunday shows? Hmmm.
Finally, at least the media are covering the support that billionaire Norman Braman is lending Baby Marco Rubio in his quest for.... whatever. You know, we're old enough to remember the days when Norman Braman was a Democrat, like most Jewish Americans are. But a little bird (and we cats love little birds) has suggested that Braman hasn't pulled a "D" lever since 1980, when he decided Jimmy Carter hated Israel (and threw tons of money behind defeating him). Ah, well. Since Braman's own hatred of taxes exceeds any loathings he ascribes to others, we'd say he's the epitome of a selfish, greedy, grasping Republican. Which means we wish him good riddance, and we HISS.
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