Congress is in pretty sad shape these days — metal detectors, threats of violence, PTSD from January 6, and the dreaded first anniversary of you-know-what just a few days away. Vice President Harris at times must be relieved to be away from Capitol Hill and in the Executive Branch instead. She sure looks mellow here.
But call us cats overly optimistic: Despite wildly depressing and overwritten prognostications from commentators north of the border, some good things are starting to happen.
Most satisfying is Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's announcement that the Senate will take up the filibuster carve-out for voting rights. And tying it to Martin Luther King's birthday was brilliant.
Also, our state Attorney General, Letitia James, is making the Trump family miserable. Two of Benedict Donald's spawn are resisting General James's subpoena in her Trump Organization civil investigation, but don't worry — Benedict Junior and daughter-wife have no magic wand to wave to make James go away. This is the kind of stuff we New York voters hired Tish to do, and we are well pleased.
And there is much rejoicing that Marjorie Taylor Greene is off Twitter. Now, her fellow right-wing nutcases (example: Dan Crenshaw) are attacking her. That's a cat fight we can get behind.
Finally, the Department of Justice will hear from Merrick Garland about January 6 on Wednesday. We've seen plenty of criticism of Garland from impatient liberals. But we haven't hopped on that train. There's so much we don't know — but will know — about what Garland is doing, and he doesn't trot out to daily press conferences to tell us, which is as it should be. It may well turn out that instead of the weak sister that critics think he is, Garland instead resembles the august personalities of Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence: "Perhaps the reason for their great influence is that they make themselves so rare." We cats PURR.
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