Political Ruminations

Quick Take: One for the team

Returning to MSNBC after his suspension over the “slut” drama, Ed Schultz immediately went over the top and called for Anthony Weiner’s resignation.

MLK Rallies for Working People – Glenn Beck Attacks MLK

Ed Schultz and Ben Jealous discuss Martin Luther King Jr.’s support for economic justice for the working people of America, and refute Glenn Beck’s charge that it was all about race. Schultz: "King's message was that racial and economic justice were inseparable."

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Morning Quote: Thanks, Firebaggers, From Michigan

The Firebagging opportunists spent two years shrieking endlessly, ostensibly   because President Obama didn’t bend down and tie their shoelaces for them.

Then they told Democrats not to vote. Gotta make a point, they said.

In Michigan, which is now essentially a dictatorship, 2 million fewer Democrats voted in 2010 as opposed to 2008. 2 million. And now, we are in deep, deep trouble thanks to the teabagging Republicans that were voted in to office in 2010, and we owe that partially, maybe even primarily, to the Firebaggers.

Fellow Michigander, Eclectablog, rags on Ed Schultz, who makes a fine whipping boy for that group, emphasis mine:

Ed Schultz has been on fire on MSNBC these past three weeks, hasn't he? Nothing like pure, unadulterated union-busting by Republicans to get old Ed fired up and ready to go. A let's not pretend Ed didn't have a plan for this all along, right? Remember this from him last fall?

[ED SCHULTZ] 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 them.

Un-American? Hell no, Ed! That's as American as it gets. Hell, it's practically Republican, it's so American! Create a problem that you yourself can benefit from. Help make sure the GOP takes control by helping suppress the Democratic vote then watch your rating positively SOAR when you get to be on television almost non-stop when they start crushing unions like cockroaches.

Man, you sure showed them, Ed. Obama has really got to be feeling this now, what with all those union people getting crushed and taxes being cut on the backs of the poor and the elderly.

Happy NOW, Firebaggers? And yeah, I am talking to Hamsher, Greenwald, et al.

Just sayin’…