We cats are on sensory overload. Michael Cohen packed so many Trump outrages into his House Oversight Committee testimony today that our furry heads are spinning. We don't know what to seize on first. So we'll talk about the behavior of committee Republicans instead.
Goodness gracious, how the GOP has scraped the bottom of the candidate-recruitment barrel! If Carol Miller, that pathetic woman from West Virginia, is any indication, our Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik — who made it her crusade to recruit GOP women to run — should hang her head in shame.
But there were plenty of embarrassments all around. Gym Jordan, Clay Higgins, Jody Hice, Mark Meadows — oh, especially Mark Meadows, who paraded a black female HUD employee like she was on the block at a slave auction — and whoever was responsible for that "Liar Liar Pants on Fire" sign gave Miller plenty of competition.
Then we heard young whipper-snapper talking heads on MSNBC asking if today was like Watergate. Since we cats have nine lives and were definitely around during that consequential summer of 1973, we were flashing on John Dean's testimony quite a bit. But not because Cohen is the new Dean. We were remembering how umbrage-y and offended the Republicans were on both the Senate Select Committee and, the following summer, on the House Judiciary Committee. They were indignant in much the same way Oversight Republicans were today.
In particular, we recall a California Congressman named Charles Wiggins, who was one of Richard Nixon's biggest (and most obnoxious) defenders. At least, he was — until the smoking gun tape came out. After that, Wiggins held an emotional news conference in which he tearfully announced he would vote for impeachment.
Here's the difference between then and now: We can't picture Jordan, Higgins, Hice, Meadows or any of the other teabag clowns following Charles Wiggins's example and admitting they were wrong. And that is not good for our American democracy. We cats HISS.
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