On MSNBC Thursday night, Ed Schultz began by declaring a payroll-tax-cut defeat for the Tea Party: "Good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching.The Tea Party's mission to destroy this presidency and the economy -- well, it`s failed for now....Tonight, they are the losers and the winners are the American people." How the Tea Party ended up losing when a tax cut is extended is a bit mysterious.
But on his radio show Thursday, at the end of the 2 pm hour, shortly before a deal was announced, Schultz was predicting that the House Republicans would go home in a stalemate and feel good about themselves, because Tea Party Republicans are like "sewer rats." He promised he would call them that on TV. Someone must have talked him out of this line:
What these tea partiers are going to do right now, and I’m going to label them tonight as sewer rats. They have a sewer rat mentality. You know what sewer rats do? They go down in the hole and they don't come out. And they all hang out together. And they're comfortable in their environment. And that’s what these Tea Partiers are doing right now behind closed doors. They’re just sewer rats.
And when they leave Washington from being a sewer rat, they’re gonna go home and they’re gonna have that human interaction with people and they’re gonna feel power. They’re going to talk with about three people that think the way they do, and say [in a nose-holding voice] ‘Well, that’s the way it is! We’re doing the right thing, and we’re going to beat this socialist/Marxist/communist pinko in the White House! I’ll say no to government spending. I don’t give a damn about the unemployed! In fact, I went home and didn’t see one person that was unemployed.’ That’s how they think.
Schultz wrapped up his TV show with "news" from his viewers: "Ed Show survey tonight, I asked is John Boehner the most ineffective Speaker in recent memory? Ninety eight percent of you said yes; two percent of you said no."
Gee, how many liberals are in that sample?
