That's right, we said "snowquester." For those of you not in the Washington area, that's what silly Bob Woodward's newspaper has dubbed tomorrow's expected winter storm. From the Republicans' behavior in Congress these last few days, we can only assume that means it'll snow everywhere here except on the Pentagon.
Well, "snowquester" beats "Winter Storm Saturn," we guess. While we wait, we cats are firing up the space heaters and looking at the headlines. Here's what we've found.
Pundit World is breathlessly reporting on a Gallup poll that shows President Obama's approval rating plummeting. Our first reaction was, Gallup? Who cares? They've got to be wrong. Although we suspect the Romneys have put a lot of faith in these Gallup numbers.
Republicans are attacking Ashley Judd like crazy, and the poor dear hasn't even declared for Senate yet. They're calling her recent talk with students at George Washington University "bizarre." We think they're forgetting something. For more than 20 years, Kentucky's own Jim Bunning, who was — gosh! — a Republican, was the veritable king of bizarre. Shall we dredge up some of Bunning's choicest quotes, and ask Mitch McConnell how he stands on them? Uh-huh — we thought not.
El Presidente Hugo Chavez esta muerto. Does this mean Joe Kennedy will have to take down his "No One Should Be Left Out In The Cold" ads?
Sandra Day O'Connor is making the rounds on her book tour. Last night, Rachel Maddow inflicted an O'Connor interview on us, which, frankly, we found disappointing. You know what we'd ask if we had SDO'C sitting across from us?
"Justice O'Connor, you helped put George W. Bush in the White House. In August 2001, Bush banned federal funding for expanded stem cell research. Since your husband died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in 2009, do you feel in any way responsible for his death?"
And why stop there? Here are some other questions we'd ask:
"Justice O'Connor, as a legal scholar, do you believe there is any decision by the Court in the last 100 years that has had such disastrous consequences as Bush v. Gore?"
"The justices who formed the majority in Bush v. Gore have a long history of upholding states' rights. Why is Bush v. Gore one of the few instances, if not the sole instance, in which states'-rights justices have ruled against this principle?"
"Can you name another opinion in which you ruled against states' rights as you did in Bush v. Gore?"
"As a former Arizona state legislator, not as a former Supreme Court justice, what do you think of your state's restrictive immigration laws having been written by the Secretary of State of Kansas?"
Well, that would have been fun. Of course, we cats will never be able to ask those questions, and no member of the media will ask them, either.
But finally, and speaking of the Supreme Court: We cats have been pretty happy and amazed at the general rush to submit amicus briefs on same-sex marriage. And it reminded us that we needed to order some china pieces from Replacements, Ltd. in North Carolina. Why? Because Replacements suffered some hateful blowback from bigots when it endorsed marriage equality last year.
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