You Stay Classy, Chuck Schumer

A sitting United States Senator just called a potential future colleague a "Teabagger", in an effort to raise money for Martha Coakley. When politicians start calling other politicians be derogatory names, it gives off a whiff of desperation.

And while I know that liberal pundits and some politicians have trotted out the term during the last year or so, they're really testing the limits of whether they can get away with saying just about anything, even if it's vaguely offensive to another group, just because they're Democrats. In other words, I guess Harry Reid really is a leader.