1466 Fat Cat Food

My good friend Rick brings me various insights into the aberrations of our culture from time to time. I like his observations because he is far more conservative than I am, and I enjoy that perspective.
Rick told me about a column that described how House Republicans were bringing back Styrofoam cups and plastic plates to the House cafeteria. They are doing so, apparently, as part of a larger effort to undo Nancy Pelosi's Green initiative, which mandated the use of recyclable utensils.
The columnist wondered whether the anti-Pelosis would be painting the wall with lead paint anytime soon.
Because really. Do we need to be so partisan we undo good ideas too? Just because the other party likes it? Stop wearing seatbelts? Dump oil in our backyards? The Democrats don't like murder either. Should we now encourage it? You wonder sometimes if GOP stands for Grand Old Petty...
Rick also was kind enough to share with me a picture he took of some fancy cat food. How far we've come in a country that still has starving children. The cans were from Fancy Feast's Elegant Medleys collection. One was labled, "Wild Salmon Primavera in a Classic Sauce with Garden Veggies and Greens." Another said, "White Meat Chicken Tuscany in a Savory Sauce with Long Grain Rice and Garden Greens."
Wow. As Rick succinctly put it, "This for an animal who bites the heads off snakes and cleans its own backside with its tongue."
Actually, Rick used a more colorful word for backside.
These cans are 83 cents apiece, by the way. Which may seem cheap to the canner's true target market.
I've yet to see an early-bird senior buffet for less than 3.99.
Also, they're in environmentally questionable BPA-lined cans. So if you want a taste, maybe they'll be serving them to the fat cats at the Capitol.
America, ya gotta love it.