I knew that following Adam Baldwin on Twitter (no, not one of those Baldwins — we’re talking Jayne Cobb from “Firefly”) would pay off eventually. Today, he brought my attention to this:
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QFE: “We have 3 branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.”- Sen. Schumer (D-NY) ~ http://bit.ly/eqwbNq
Hey, we all misspeak. And maybe the good senator was just checking to see whether the viewers were paying attention.
Here’s a question: Would Jayne Cobb have known about the three branches of government? Probably not. Of course, in his ‘verse, all you need to know is that there’s the ruttin’ Alliance, and there’s the freedom-loving Browncoats.
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It’s a short clip, but the more important part of what he was saying is that shutting down the government and playing games with the debt ceiling is dangerous. For saying that, he is to be commended.
Shutting down the government worked out so well for Gingrich and the Contract on America killers, didn’t it?