Perfidy Of The Year

By Hubie and Bertie

It's hard not to agree with Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-RI), who has asked House leaders not to seat any member who has joined with Benedict Donald's fruitless attempt to overturn the election. Pascrell is basing it on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which "disqualifies from service any individuals who seek to attack American democracy."

Sounds about right.

Team, this is today's GOP: Instead of adhering to their oath of office, they bend a knee to an autocrat who won't accept the cleanest election in American history. It's pathetic, disgusting and, yes, disturbing.

Our own House member, the ever-Trumpy Elise Stefanik, signed on, too. We can only hope that the New York State Legislature will redistrict her farther northward into the wilds of the Adirondacks, and give us a good Congressman, like Anthony Delgado or Paul Tonko. You know, somebody who won't subvert the Constitution.

Upstate newspapers that made the right call in the Stefanik-Cobb NY-21 race are probably patting themselves on the back that they don't have to do what The Orlando Sentinel just did: rescind a Congressional endorsement. "We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election," the Sentinel said, referring to the area's GOP House member. "We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy."

Wow. We cats never thought we'd see the Sentinel, part of the Chicago Tribune newspaper family, which used to be straight-up, Republican chamber-of-commerce-type conservative, do such a thing. But apparently, open sedition can send even right-wing Colonel McCormick's children into the light.

It's impossible to believe that the United States of America would allow itself to be driven into a Constitutional crisis by a person as small and worthless as Donald Trump. But when one of its political parties decides to self-destruct over him, that could still happen. Still, there's no doubt that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in on January 20 — especially since the Supreme Court just told all those Republican traitors to take a hike. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.