In past weeks, this column has documented how our top political leaders are both pushing the envelope and being carved in stone, as they’ve become fodder for satirical greeting cards and a line of concrete gargoyles.
Now I’ve learned that the push to honor these august figures has extended to the world of fish bones and litter boxes. I have on my desk “Kitty Hoots,” catnip toys bearing the likenesses of President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“Newt far outsells Bill,” notes Donna Dunlap of Chicago’s Park View Pet Shop, who asks, “Does this mean Newt’s the more popular figure? Or does it mean Newt is most appealing as an object to be clawed at, ripped to pieces and shredded into little bits.”
Maybe they misread his title as Mouse Republican leader.
