A Capital Letter

By Baxter

Now that (male) Democrats are reading, without incident, Coretta Scott King's scathing Jeff Sessions letter on the Senate floor, we cats are wondering what all the fuss was about last night.

Did the Republicans silence Elizabeth Warren because she's a woman? Will we see Turtle-Face McConnell shut down, say, Kirsten Gillibrand or Tammy Duckworth if they give the Coretta letter a go? Or did McConnell have specific instructions from Trumplethinskin just to banish "Pocahontas"?

We'll probably never know — just as we'll never be able to figure out that terrorist attack in Atlanta that Sean Spicer keeps talking about. The only explanation for the chaos of the last two and a half weeks is that when you hate government, you suck at governing.

Meanwhile, it's occurred to us that it could also be the words of famous wives that the Republicans are finding so discomfiting. Coretta Scott King was not the only elegant and eloquent American spouse who shone on the page in her own right. Here are two more. The GOP should take them as fair warning, and they make us cats PURR.

"We must show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice... Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Arbitrary power is, like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken." (Abigail Adams)

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abigail_adam