Marching Orders

By Miss Kubelik

How exciting that the January 6 Committee will hear testimony from Patsy Baloney on Friday! Patsy (aka Pat Cipollone, former White House Counsel — the same job John Dean had with Nixon) must have truly felt the heat after Cassidy Hutchinson's appearance before the committee last week. Pretty tantalizing to think about what we don't know, because Patsy's testimony was secured with lightning speed, Washington-wise.

Meanwhile, in the UK, Boris Johnson is having kind of a bad day, just hanging by his fingernails while some cabinet ministers resign and he fires others. Add to that the news that Fulton County DA Fani Willis has subpoenaed Lady Lindsey, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and other Trumpy traitors in the Georgia election case, and it appears that right now, a lot of right wingers, both here and abroad, are seeing their worlds crumble around them.

(Oh, and Democrats now have a small but clear lead in the polling averages on the generic midterm ballot. That lead could grow as gas prices continue to fall and as voters get madder and madder about guns, abortion and January 6.)

So, what are some in our party doing? Attacking Joe Biden — often anonymously, of course — for not being "outraged enough." Yet as has been pointed out, when Biden does speak forcefully about the GOP, Democrats and the pundit class wring their hands about whether he was too harsh. Make up your minds, kids.

This drives us crazy. Republicans have amply demonstrated that they are the enemy. They've hinted gleefully at the havoc they will wreak if they regain control of government. And Trump's Supreme Court just agreed to hear that democracy-destroying case out of North Carolina next term. What will convince these people to give up the circular firing squads and realize that the future of the country is at stake?

Progressives need to remember that Biden is one of them — in some ways, more progressive than they. It was Biden who pushed Barack Obama on marriage equality, Biden who selected a woman as his Vice President, Biden who has appointed more Black women to judgeships (and let's not forget the biggest appointment of them all, Ketanji Brown Jackson). What Biden needs — really needs — is more Democrats in Congress. So let's give them to him. Pick a Senate and/or House race you can help on today. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.