Operation Badass

By Miss Kubelik

While the Republicans — led by the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene — are busy being offensive, Democrats are spending their time on the offense. And boy, does it feel great.

Ever since Joe Biden was sworn in a little over two weeks ago, it's been full steam ahead. The Administration is in a real take-no-prisoners, give-no-quarter, "don't-make-me-stop-this-car" mood — blazing trails while they can, the rest of the world be damned. The GOP is left blinking in bewilderment. They shouldn't be — 20 years ago, they acted like they had a huge mandate when their guy "won" by only 537 votes in Florida, so any surprise they're experiencing now is, to say the least, ridiculous.

Biden is going big on COVID relief. He parlayed with the Collins-Romney caucus for two hours, and then pushed ahead instead of spending the next 12 months getting jerked around until he gets no deal in the end. And the White House is messaging that the $1.9 trillion package is bipartisan, because Americans of every political persuasion support it. Very he-coon-like. We approve.

But that's not all, folks. Biden's executive orders have reversed Trump travesties from the environment to trade, national security and gender and racial equality. Over in the House, Jamie Raskin is playing hardball on next week's impeachment trial. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is demanding that the military flush out their white supremacists, just as the Trumpsters are being sacked throughout the government. And most delicious of all, Team Biden denied a last-ditch request from Trump appointees for parental leave. Sorry, guys: As we cats know from experience, when your President loses his job, so do you — and your benefits, too.

And now Biden has flown to Delaware for the weekend — to grab a few hours of relaxation with family now that the House has passed his budget plan. When a reporter asked Jen Psaki about the safety of the trip, she smacked him down. Courteously, of course.

All of this is long overdue. The GOP's scorched-earth tactics have been running roughshod over us for a long time, and we were too timid to retaliate. Now, with the slimmest of majorities in Congress but more than 81 million general-election votes behind us, we Democrats are busting ass and busting chops. And it's beautiful to see. We cats PURR.