By Miss Kubelik
What a week in Nancy Pelosi's House of Representatives: the House just passed an assault weapons ban, 217 to 213.
We cats remember being on the phone with then-Attorney General Janet Reno, back in 1994 — the last time such a ban was enacted — and General Reno describing to us the arduous trek to achieving that victory. Now, today's ban has to go the Senate, where history has the chance to repeat itself (although we have no illusions). But whatever the political angst, it will be nothing compared to the pain that the survivors of gun violence endure. Just ask Fred Guttenberg.
Our thought tonight is that however much the MAGA screamers want to distract people, and however much the media chase shiny objects, governing is complicated and difficult, and does not lend itself to 24-hour, cable-news sound bites. So when a legislative victory like tonight's occurs, the pundits are kinda caught flat-footed. They have to actually address the substance of the legislation. Horrors!
Despite what the talking heads may or may not have to say (and we really don't care what they do), Nancy Pelosi is a badass and probably the greatest Speaker of the House in our lifetimes. Trust the women to get shit done. We cats apologize for the profanity, but we still PURR.
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