I was hoping we had heard the last of Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz for awhile - she's been laying pretty low since the election. Now that it's over, she's got no one's record to lie about.
Well, she's baaaaacccckk. And she's single-handedly predicted the end of the world via the sequestration - the Mayans aren't happy about stealing their thunder on that one. And of course, only the rich will survive as usual. The gun debate will be delayed, meaning law-abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights will be running amok, keeping their guns locked up in their gun safes and only using them for protection.
Before watching this, may I remind everyone that it was Obama who proposed, wrote and signed the sequester.
CHRIS JANSING: And I guess the other question is, if the sequester, you know, battle continues to go on, what it means for other things that need to get done. For example, today the president’s grass roots group is planning a national day of action with a protest outside of NRA offices, and I guess about a hundred other smaller events and rallies. I mean, for example, would work on gun legislation be delayed because of the sequester?
DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: Well, everything is — everything would be delayed. You’re going to have massive indiscriminate cuts to education, to health care research, you’re going to have research grants that won’t get funded. I mean, the decisions that we make now, letting the sequester kick in, have short-term effects that affect people’s daily lives, but they also have significant long-term effects. If a university isn’t able to hire a researcher or — because the grant doesn’t come through — that researcher never does groundbreaking work that could save thousands of lives later on down the road. I mean, this is dramatically irresponsible. It’s irresponsible for our economy and the impact on it. It’s irresponsible to, in terms of the impact it would leave on the middle class and working families. The only ones who get protected are the wealthiest, most fortunate Americans. But that appears to be the Republicans’ goal. And it’s just baffling. How could they possibly continue to only care about people who are already doing really well who are the only ones that would be shielded from the impact of sequester cuts?
Have you ever heard such tripe before in your life? Research grants that won't get funded and/or that can save thousands of lives - you mean like a museum of magic that received $147,000 to study the audiences of magic shows or more than $550,000 of U.S. taxes that went to the production of a documentary on how rock bands contributed to the fall of the Soviet empire? And why exactly would only the wealthiest survive?
Of course, she didn't get into the gun legislation part of it but she did lump it in with 'everything would be delayed' - that's code for 'The sky is falling at the hands of the GOP even though we had control of the Senate for much of Barry's first term yet did nothing but pass the healthcare tax....er, healthcare act'. So the ceremonial banging of the made-up crises drum continues. As they say in Looney Tunes land:
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