This column compares important actions of the State GOP (RPA) to my children’s cat when it is sick. See, Kitty is red, and Kitty is supposed to eat red meat. However, Kitty sometimes endorses strange policies, like when former Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed legislation that would ban doctors from providing transgender affirming care to Arkansas children.
Yes, you accurately remember that Hutchinson went on Tucker Carlson and showed the nation why he was not fit to be President. Around here, we call that “Kitty Barf.”
Or that one time when Kitty’s travel habits and a podium purchase were being reviewed by an investigative reporter who hits on a good story once every seven years or so (even a blind, trolling hog finds a truffle every now and then). Rather than, you know, do the right thing and just show the records and answer the questions, Kitty called a special legislative session at great expense to the taxpayers of Arkansas.
Kitty did so under the guise of “protecting the governor.” No one has a problem with Kitty protecting itself. However, Kitty took one small step forward for a cat and one giant leap backward for mankind when Kitty shifted the session from protection to gutting FOIA.
Yep, you remember right, Kitty barfed on that one too.
Now, you may not believe it—but damn it, Kitty did it again! When presented with an opportunity remove true agitators from its midst, Kitty barfed.
There were a handful of members of the Saline County Republican Committee (SCRC) who were quietly working against the party, doing things like taking and publishing votes of “no confidence” in Senators Tom Cotton and John Bozeman for “publicity” purposes (an act that was a huge warning sign of mental fitness and acuity tantamount to listening to a talking snake in the Garden of Eden), trying to remove over thirty elected officials from the SCRC without notice and using shady tactics, and filing false ethics complaints against stalwarts and luminaries of the RPA.
Oh, and reporting all my articles to Facebook as improper, but I digress—this is about Kitty.
Rather than take the opportunity it was given to excoriate this cancer from its body, Kitty chomped on something else. Kitty decided to kick out over 200 members of the SCRC for two years, the vast majority of them MAGA America First Republicans. That makes no sense—except to Kitty—who still can’t explain it.
But Kitty did not stop there. Kitty went further and removed the leader of this group of grassroots Republicans from the party for 20 years—the one who stood up to the agitators and told them enough was enough. Oh, and if she runs against establishment Republican darling and current Congressman French Hill, she gets an official “not recommend” status.
Say what, Kitty? I can’t hear you over the sounds you’re making as you barf up purple goo from eating spineless blue slugs.

Attorney. America First. Sued Hunter Biden for child support. Represented President Trump in the 2020 Wisconsin election challenge. Former attorney for the Wisconsin Special Counsel. An official “Tough Cookie” per President Trump.
Great post. It’s too bad the “red” team in our state doesn’t see the forest for the trees.
I wrote about “Kitty” in a post on Arkansas 1st that your readers might be interested in.
https://arkansas1st.com/opinion/the-rpa-cabal/ or https://jacksotallaro.substack.com/p/the-rpa-cabal https://arkansas1st.com/opinion/the-rpa-cabal/
Thanks Jack!
Great post Clint,
We have had a lot of those slugs in our garden this year which seems a bit strange because it has been such a dry summer but then it dawned on me. I think they are shape shifters! The come out at night as blue slugs and during the day they fly around as incognito lady bugs doing more damage everywhere they go. See the real ladybugs don’t bite you they eat aphids and the like but leave us reds alone. but the Japanese lady bug well it bits us and I have found me having to suck them up with a portable vacuum to get rid of them. See this Red doesn’t like to poison my land or the food I’m going to eat so we don’t use chemicals anywhere on our land. See we only want to get rid of the problem not the whole population of good bugs. I guess the RPA doesn’t do organic. It’s like someone finding ants on their table and they get out the flame thrower and torch their table to get rid of the ants. Problem solved. I think I will stick to sucking up the bugs.
You know, Jim, there is a saying about not sinking the ship to drown the rats. But at some point, the rats have got to go. Thank you for the comment.