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RIP Socks*:
Socks, the cat who won international fame during his years in the Clinton White House, was euthanized Friday after months of treatment for cancer.
Socks, who was born in 1989, was put to sleep about 10 a.m. at Three Notch Veterinary Clinic in Hollywood, Maryland, said veterinary assistant Rae Dera. Veterinarians say he was probably either 19 or 20 years old.
The cat had been losing weight since November and had been treated at the clinic, Dera said. He had been suffering from a cancer in his mouth and jaw.
After the euthanization, the body of Socks was deposited in Fort Marcy Park, a federal park in Virginia where it was found by park rangers. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has vowed an investigation into the death of Socks, coming as it has, on the eve of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to China. According to congressional aides, the timing of the Socks death just as his former owner was leaving the country is "suspicious, to say the least. Probably criminal. Yeah. Really really criminal looking."
In related news, Regnery Publishing Inc, A Division of Eagle Publishing, has commissioned noted author Lilian Jackson Braun to write a tell-all book on the late Socks: The Cat Who Knew Too Fucking Much to be published on Wednesday, February 25th. The slim tome is expected to reach number one on the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestseller list the following week due to massive bulk orders shipped to 214 Massachusetts Ave NE Washington DC 20002-4999, as well as a copy to be delivered gratis to all seventy-three people who subscribe to the Washington Times.
* Some of the above is made up stuff.
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That’s some quality CNN reporting: “was born in 1989…was probably either 19 or 20 years old.” Crack(ed) journalism at its finest.
Christ, it’s not even really their cat. It lived with Betty Currie after they left DC. But there’s AOL: “WHY WAS SOCKS PUT DOWN?”
Dunno.
Don’t give a fuck, either.
What parts are the made up stuff?
There’s some one on cspan2 who sez that conservatives are good at being in the opposition. Cites Gingrich, opposition to Great Society during 1960s and opposition to the FDR New Deal. Geez, if that’s how well they do, I guess we can look forward to great new govt programs.
Oh, now he’s touting SS privatization as one of the “good ideas” of conservatives. Hey, hope they keep touting that one.
THe part about Issa is for real. He wants Socks’ emails too.
Vince Foster and now the cat. When will people wake up and understand the evil that is the Clintons? When will it end?
Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council’s Super Duper Prayer Team should get on this immediately. /s
Of course, Barney & Mrs. Beasley couldn’t be reached for comment because they were busy torturing individuals suspected of terrorism.
That was an old-ass cat.
My cat lived to age 21.
My little Missy lived to be 22 1/2. Been gone almost a year and a half now. Seems like yesterday.
I understand Ann Coulter has offered to break her no food rule if she can dine on cat brains.
The critters in the Sunshine household is dining on delicious mousy guts today.
More real guts than you’ll find the Rethug party….
ooops should not get up to stir the fire in midsentence…
The critters in the Sunshine household hope Socks is dining on delicious mousy guts today.
All right, Prairie, get the dang sentence right. …heavenly delicious mousy guts….
Oral cancer is particularly nasty. Usually very aggressive, very painful and the animal starves to death if not euthanized. Lost my 19yo Min to it last June.
NY Post headline:
Bill Clinton rids self of another pussy.
FOX Gnu’s:
Clinton drops pussy. Film at 11.
Washington Times headline:
Clinton’s dead pussy found laying open in park.
Ah, this is too easy!
And lame.
Yup, especially since that one’s been utterly debunked long ago.
The UK is bitterly regretting privatizing their old-age pension/insurance plan (something about the 14% to 17% overhead costs, as opposed to less than 1% overhead costs for Social Security) and is looking longingly at our SS plan.
Betty Currie must be aching right now. She loved Socks with every fibre of her being. (He was also a huuuuge kitty — and not a fat one, either; just a big and rangy tom. There’s a photo of her and him from the early ’00s where she’s holding him in her arms and he looks like a small panther.)
From what I’ve read, they didn’t realize he had throat cancer until it was too late to easily operate on him (and they no doubt feared he’d pull out the stitches somehow). They apparently thought his liver was the problem.
Sox looks very presidential at that podium. I wish he would have run in 2000. Certainly smarter than the dope who ended up speaking at that lectern.
Sox is at the Rainbow Bridge, eating mousy guts. Not pet mouses though. Oh dear. Blessings for Sox and Ms. Currie.
Yeah, I agree…
I would pay BIG bucks to see Socks’ REAL passport…just sayin’.
The other day, CNN was covering President Obama’s trip to Canada, and they spelled Ottawa wrong.
CNN spelled it OTTOAWA. It stayed up for a while too.
Oh boy, are dey smart or what?
Socks was an evil, liberal, socialist who engineered the bank meltdown so the government could nationalise the banks.
Now that Obama has taken over, they had to get rid of Socks to keep the secret.
Story on Fox “News” tonight.
I love cats. Whenever one dies, I’m sad. They are such intelligent, perceptive animals.
Cats rule, dogs drool.
Italy and Chile have also had buyer’s remorse on privitization of their pension schemes.
If Obama is seriously considering doing anything like that, he’s an idiot, both politically and financially.
You mean the British people are looking longingly at SS. Tony Blair’s fat cat friends and all the rest who are skimming that 17% are happier than pigs in shit.
“Dead Cat Alley”? Woodland, California? There’s a brew-pub on that street!
I used to work on Dead Cat Alley, about 8 years ago. There is another nearby street there in Woodland — Dog Gone Alley.
“The Life of Socks” will do for pet euthanasia what “The Life of David Gale” did for the capital punishment debate.
Your fiction isn’t far off the right wing’s take on Socks’ death.
socks knew all about whitewater, clearly the poor animal was murdered before it could point the claw on hilary. i expect dan burton to start shooting watermelons in his back yard again.
That was a good age, we had a cat that died at 21 years old, and he was a black and white Socks-type, named Malarky…
We still have Pixel, who will be 25 this year. She still sometimes plays like a kitten and has her moments of frantic running about the house, but is sleeping more than in the past…Her “brothers” are Baby, who is 15, and Buddy, also a back and White, who is 12.
My wife and I were sad to hear about Socks passing…
Damn!! 25!! That may be a record. Good for you & Pixel.
Not all of it is made-up stuff any more
aw damn, I went and looked. Jesus.
Ah, the lovely Sox. I have one who looks just like him and has nasal lymphoma and beat it. Or so we think. He’s old too — 17. I’ve had him since I was 11. Peace unto Sox. Really.
Love the post, as per usual your other posts, tbogg.
Thanks for the homage.
So, the whole effort to preserve Socks’s favorite gourmet treat–the marsh mouse of San Francisco–goes for naught. But the evil Pelosi will only laugh.