While Democrats like Nancy Pelosi professed not to disturbed by their gloomy electoral prospects, ABC's Christiane Amanpour could have really riled her up by noting Ed Schultz proclaimed on his radio show Friday that he's boycotting the midterm elections unless someone extends unemployment benefits past 99 weeks. Democrats are apparently worthless and weak while the Republicans "say yes to death" by insisting on a pay-go policy. Radio Equalizer has the particulars. Schultz said:
And I'm announcing today, I'm not going to vote in the midterms. I'm not going to do it. You can say it's un-American. No, it's rather revolutionary is what it is. I'm at that point. I'm checking out.
I'm checking out of the Democrats because they are proving to me that they don't know how to handle these big babies over on the right that say no. You know what you do? You get in the driver's seat, you hit the throttle, and you run over 'em.
This violent imagery must come with the JournoList disclaimer: all our liberal death-wish talk is merely figurative. There's more in this Schultz's extend-unemployment-assistance-forever-for-the-"99ers" rant. He explicitly sets up the vote as -- You send me taxpayer money, I vote for you -- money for votes, pure and simple:
I will ask the 99ers to not vote for the Democrat unless they deliver the mail. This is what it's come to. This is what we have to do.
I believe this is really an important moral issue for this country. I have had enough of the Republicans saying no to everything, and in this case, they're saying yes to death, is what they're doing, in my opinion.
He said to get their attention the 99ers should "form an unemployed coalition and flat out tell the Democrats we're not voting in the midterm." It continued:
If they don't realize the seriousness of this, they don't deserve to be in office. It's that simple. Because they're not serving the people, and they're just taking the problem and passing it along to the next generation.We have got unprecedented unemployment in this country, and the people have to be heard.
To Schultz, the only "people" to be heard are those receiving federal aid, not the people who are paying the taxes going in to Washington. And since when is our employment situation worse than the Great Depression? But the left was probably replaying the "Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" lines from "Animal House." Don't bother with Big Ed's goofball errors, he's on a roll:
This isn't about saving anybody's Congressional ass. This is about saving lives at this point. And if Harry Reid doesn't have the guts to keep the Senate in to move on this issue, in my opinion, he should not be reelected in Nevada.
This is some gratitude Schultz has, after he touted how the Democrats enriched his sons with stimulus dollars.
