On a day where Steny Hoyer tells the world that the House GOP is playing Russian Roulette (with a loaded gun) with the economy and the President – look, it was his tortured and brutalized metaphor, not mine – and Harry Reid is tweeting away that Tea Partiers aren’t real Americans, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz goes Full Metal Hand-Stapled-To-Forehead and starts babbling about dictatorships because House Republicans dared to show this motivational clip* at a debt ceiling meeting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub792aeMjlM&feature=player_embedded
And they wonder why every Democratic candidate for the last forty-five years has felt obligated to demonstrate at some point that he or she is not in fact a wimp.
Moe Lane
*Clip via Jim Geraghty, who also notes that Chuck Schumer seems determined to demonstrate with this that he’s a much better at being weak-willed and silly than Wasserman-Schultz could ever hope to be. So Schumer gets a Shaddap, Sign:
Shaddap, Sign!
Wasserman-Schultz would play Russian roulette with a Glock.