Are cats ever hired to be talking heads on TV? Seriously, we want to know, because we'd be way better than the fools who prattle away on cable news.
Latest case in point: This past weekend, the spin from the Republican pundits was that Donald Trump was done, through, finito. It was all because he had crossed a line that even the GOP can't cross, if indeed such a line exists: dissing the military record of former POW John McCain.
Take it to the bank, they said: Donnie was toast!
Fast forward to less than a week later, and we have this: A vexed GOP is grudgingly accepting the fact that Trump is not going away any time soon. "Their main concern now is limiting his damage to their party."
Hm. We cats are unimpressed. Particularly since our prediction is that this coming Sunday, the same jabbering GOP jackasses who screamed their false Trumpophobic forecast to the rooftops will be back, opining away with impunity. Nobody will say to them, "But last time you were on, you said...."
It's not unlike the neocons and Kristolheads who led us into that disastrous Iraq invasion in 2003, and who are now banging the Iran war drums without any responsible party calling horse hockey on them.
We cats are really, really tired of journalism's lack of institutional memory, and its failure to force highly paid pundits to account for past sins. These people are contributing to the low level of political discourse almost as much as Donald Trump is, and it's journalists' job to point that out. Since they don't, we cats HISS.
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