Goodness gracious. We cats can't remember a better time to escape the insanity that passes for today's American political scene. Soon we'll be off on a short holiday to a place without teabaggers. (At least, so far.) But meanwhile, here are a few items worth mentioning.
Item the First: Has it been driving you as crazy as it's been driving us, that those lazy news people on TV have been referring — un-ironically — to Scott Walker's "budget repair bill" in Wisconsin? Fie on that. "Budget repair" is a Republican marketing term, and responsible journalists shouldn't use it. However, we take consolation in the fact that union supporters are starting to refer to it as "the Walker budget."
Item the Second: While we are mighty sick and tired of lefties getting sandbagged by that piece of you-know-what James O'Keefe, we do wonder why we should be shocked that anyone would equate teabaggery and racism. Teabaggers hold up racist signs at their rallies. They scream that a decisively elected black President, a native of Hawaii, is in office illegitimately because he was born in Kenya. They mock the President's background as a community organizer. They purposely call him "Osama." No doubt about it. They're racists.
Item the Third: So that shallow political journalist over at The Washington Post thinks that Sharron Angle is a proven fundraiser and will be a formidable presence in the Nevada Senate race now that best-friend-cuckolder John Ensign is toast. Hm. We cats think maybe not. It's one thing to collect millions of dollars from the aforementioned teabaggers when you're running against one of the biggest Democratic targets in the country. It'll be quite a different story if she enters a crowded Republican field for an open seat.
Item the Last: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying to put the kibosh on all that no-fly zone talk against Libya. It ain't as easy as it seems, apparently. "We... have to think about, frankly, the use of the U.S. military in another country in the Middle East," he told NPR. Well, gosh. We cats wonder how much less stretched our military would be today if we hadn't needlessly invaded Iraq on a Republican lie.
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