Forgive us cats if we're repeating what you've already read in the wonderful world of the Interwebs, but we have a few baseline observations about Whistleblowergate. Ready? Let's go.
The whistleblower is surely a single individual. But this whole thing is more than one person. This is a concerted effort by a group — who knows how large — of intelligence community professionals who have had enough of Benedict Donald's perfidy and treason. Which is a good thing. But no single person could be leaking so strategically to so many news outlets. It takes a village.
On that note, it's interesting how the leaks about the story have been judiciously spread around over the last week. The Washington Post, The New York Times and, now, The Wall Street Journal have all been afforded scoops, day after day. Who's next up, The Los Angeles Times? It's possible. Whoever is behind this unmasking of Trump's treason, being effectively blocked from going to Congress, is relying on the media — not just the "liberal media" — and is doing it systemically and methodically.
As for impeachment? Well! We remember that Nancy Pelosi said you had to get all your evidence first — and, most important, you had to have the American people behind the idea. So tonight we're wondering if folks on Main Street will understand that it's wrong to withhold foreign aid to an ally unless that ally digs up dirt on a domestic political opponent.
We think they'll get it — after all, did the folks who ended up supporting impeachment in 1974 really understand what obstruction of justice was all about? In this case, maybe clear-thinking Americans will decide they hate the idea of impugning a former Vice President who just lost his other son.
The only thing that's missing here, obviously, is the Republican Party's willingness to be patriots first, partisans second. Sadly, we're not seeing a lot of Barry Goldwaters, Hugh Scotts and John Rhodeses in today's GOP crowd. We cats wait and watch, and in the meantime, we HISS.
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