"There is still shock on the part of some in the Republican party that I won re-election," President Obama has told The New Republic.
No joke, Mr. President. In fact, they're in such shock that they're trying to rig the rules.
You've probably heard about all this, because the so-called liberal media have been covering it like crazy: States that went blue last year, but which are governed by GOP governors and state legislatures, are looking to apportion their Electoral College votes per Congressional district instead of statewide, winner take all.
Which means that if those rules had been in force last year in, say, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia and Florida, we would have been listening to President Romney's first inaugural address last Monday. Horrors!
We cats are disgusted. Back in the days when Saint Ronnie Reagan was carrying 49 states, or when the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived was being appointed to the Presidency by the Supreme Court, Republicans loved the Electoral College. Now that their policies are deeply unpopular with the American people — and with the party in the toilet — instead of taking a real hard look at themselves and their positions, they've decided that the path to success lies in disenfranchising the urban, progressive, non-white, non-male, non-old, non-heterosexual voters who have deserted them already.
Therefore, we cats have a proposition.
Dear GOP: Shall we abolish the Electoral College entirely? And just go to a straight popular vote for President?
Sounds good to us. Because we think that you guys would lose that straight-up-and-down vote, every time — for decades and decades to come. We cats PURR.
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