Charles Schumer’s recent fundraising email:
I got the message below from Ted Kennedy’s widow, Vicki, and I wanted to make sure you saw it.
Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy’s term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican.
It would be bad enough to lose this seat — and Democrats’ sixtieth vote in the Senate — right before the final health care reform vote. But it would be even worse for the decisive “no” vote to come from Ted Kennedy’s old seat.
It’s nice to see that they’ve decided to thrust aside even the pretense of civility. Honesty from a politician, it’s like hen’s teeth.
Politics in America is so bad I’m sorta looking forward to my own personal Jimmy Shaker Day, if you know what I mean.
I’d like to drop a gigantic Cleveland Steamer on the lot of them, Dems and Repubs.
And I’ve been eating a lot of peanuts, if you know what I mean.
Those big peanuts you get at the ballpark? Or the “Circus Peanuts” that resemble peanuts but are actually a colorful candy with the taste and consistency of soft rubber tires? Either way, that’d be one nasty Cleveland Steamer, if you know what I mean.