We cats are planning to have a happy holiday season: The Ghost of a Romney Presidency Yet to Come is not hanging over our furry heads.
Republicans, however, probably won't be having the merriest of Christmases. When they're not stonewalling the White House on the fiscal cliff, they're very busy trying to figure out what went wrong for them in 2012.
This may or may not be a fruitful enterprise. One comment from a nameless GOP operative has caught our eye: "2010 was the biggest midterm win for one party since the 1938 election. Our ideas still resonate."
Um, no, they don't. If they ever did. We cats believe that the 2010 electorate didn't quite know what they were voting for — and having seen the train wreck that the last two years has been on Capitol Hill, they've decided they've had quite enough, thank you.
And what has struck us most this year, not just during the election itself but in the jaw-dropping actions of Republicans since, is how many Americans for whom the GOP has active contempt: Workers, women, the unemployed, the middle class, Hispanics, immigrants, the disabled, African-Americans, gays and lesbians, those who speak English as a second language, young people, Jewish people, other non-Christians... the list may go on, because it's such a long one we fear we've left someone out.
In short, the Republicans don't seem to like anyone who isn't Willard Mitt Romney. And we all know how that turned out.
Unless the GOP wakes up and realizes that their policies are the problem, and won't be solved by some lame attempts at face diversity, we're looking at the possible extinction of a political party. Which believe it or not, doesn't necessarily make us cats PURR.
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