Since we cats have nine lives, we're old enough to remember the message that flashed on Shea Stadium's scoreboard on a cold October night back in 1986: "Congratulations World Series Champs Boston Red Sox."
Whoops! That message came down mighty quick once the New York Mets rallied when they were one out away.
Well, now mistakes like that go out on that Twitter thing, and not just to 50,000 people in a baseball stadium but to the entire world. So it behooves you even more to wait until the last out of the freaking game before you start popping champagne corks — or try to score stupid political points by send warm hugs to your home-state team for winning the division championship. (In case you're wondering, yes, the Kansas City Royals came back from the dead in the eighth inning and won the game, 9-6.)
In short, the far-far-far-right-wing Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) didn't just jump the gun when the Royals had their backs against the wall — he tweeted felicitations at the end of the seventh inning! Call us cats crazy, but in our book, there was plenty of time left for Kansas City to stage their comeback, which of course they did. Don't mess around with the baseball gods — they will always bite you. (Then again, Abbott is the same idiot who put Texas on high alert for the nonexistent Jade Helm conspiracy this summer, so how smart is he?)
What Abbott and his staff did was so typical of one-party rule. When you're in that position — like the Republicans are in Texas — you feel entitled, you're omnipotent, you can't possibly be wrong, and you have nobody to put the brakes on you when you're about to do something stupid. Which as we know from recent antics on Capitol Hill, Republicans are awfully good at. We cats HISS.
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