It's Christmas week, and everything is terrible. We're wondering if America has spent a worse, more sword-of-Damocles holiday season than 2018. Maybe in the depths of the Great Depression? After the Kennedy assassination? We're finding it hard to come up with a parallel, because the nation's very institutions today are at risk.
And Vladimir Putin is doing cartwheels.
So let's focus on a happy political subject, shall we? Specifically, how fortunate the state of Hawaii is in its Senators.
It wasn't too long ago that the Aloha State was represented by two dudes with a ton of seniority — one of whom was a storied war (and Watergate) hero. When the two Daniels — Akaka and Inouye — passed from the scene, plenty of people asked if Hawaii could recover from losing their big clout in Washington.
Well, wonder no more. Hawaii is represented in the Senate by a badass and a Twitter fiend.
Mazie Horono is someone Donald Trump should think twice about crossing. A member of the Senate Judiciary and Armed Services Committees and an intrepid cancer survivor, Mazie has called out the Trumpsters — literally — on their BS many times. Asked about the current government shutdown, Hirono said, "Trump has to take responsibility for it. Any effort on his part to blame the Democrats will be such bullshit, that I would hardly be able to stand it."
Brian Schatz's tweets, meanwhile, continue to make us LOL. Even a 22-hour round-trip between Washington and Honolulu and back to Washington again did not keep him from hitting the nail on the head this week about the Republicans' idiocy. "Wheels down IAD ready to vote no on this stupid wall," he tweeted on Friday morning. He's also been trying to figure out Trump's strange obsession with a non-wall wall. "Can someone explain this slats thing to me?" he pleaded. "Update: No one knows why slats."
Summary: Hawaii has two great, progressive US Senators who reflect the diversity of their great state, are media savvy and, most of all, fearless. We cats love them both. And we PURR.
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