In case you're wondering, no — America won't wake up on Saturday morning with planes stacked 12 deep on its airport runways. But take it from us cats, the meat-cleaver budget cuts of the sequester will be felt. Until that happens, though, the news is simply packed with interesting stories. Here are a few.
Republican Congressman Tom Latham has decided not to run for Tom Harkin's Iowa Senate seat. We cats think that Pundit World should be all over this story. Why? Because it's about a veteran House member and respected player on the Boehner team essentially taking a long, hard look at his upcoming GOP Senate primary and deciding that Karl Rove's anti-teabagger super PAC couldn't save him. That's right: A month after Rove said he was going to pour tons of cash into stopping the crazy, he's already gotten humiliated in one of his best open-seat possibilities. Nice going!
How far out of touch are Congressional Republicans? Consider this: They're frantically funding the government's official defense of DOMA, while several totally-not-liberal corporations including Mars, Citigroup and Marriott (!!) have just come out in support of marriage equality. We guess that Eric Cantor and his teabagger caucus don't know what these companies do: That you can't hire bright, young, innovative and technologically savvy people if your corporate policy is to hate people who don't look like Bill Marriott or Forrest Mars.
We cats are also waiting for the day the business world discovers they can't recruit talented folks to live in states in which the vaginal probe is worshiped more fervently than the Bible. Or where science is banned from school textbooks.
Here's a real dog-bites-man headline: "Anti-Abortion Group Backs Cuccinelli."
And finally, hooray! The House passed the Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act today. A lot of attention has been paid to the 87 Republicans who voted for the teabagger-hated bill, but we cats think it's worth noting that once again, the Democratic House leadership has kept its caucus 100 percent united on an important piece of progressive legislation. Nancy Pelosi is one of the most effective Speakers and Minority Leaders in House history, and sad-sack Boehner sure could learn a lot from her. We cats PURR.
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