I think I see part of the problem. Cats aren't mean, they are cats.
By nature they are hunters, killers, for food.
No emnity required. If you haven't seen that side of felines, you don't really know cats at all.
If all you are seeing is the warm and cute and fuzzy side of this administration, you don't know it at all, either.
Useful analogy!
The Obama administration keeps ripping at our furniture and dragging the half-digested corpses of birds into our kitchens.
But in Boston, they are cuddly and sweet.