Retiring Democrats Sit on Cash Rather Than Help Colleagues

What do you do if you are a liberal Democrat in 2010 and are likely not going to get re-elected? Sit an election out, get Obama to appoint you to some government job, suck down benefits and pay, and re-evaluate in 2012. Oh, and sit on all that cash that was donated for you for your re-election bid.

Via Political Wire, Swing State Project has compiled a list of cash-on-hand figures for all members of congress who are not running for re-election or have resigned this cycle. While retirees regularly donate the bulk of their left-over cash to their party's House and Senate campaign arms, this cycles retiring Democrats are "sitting on an enormous $33 million stockpile," despite the fact that their colleagues are facing an incredibly tough election environment.

$33 million dollars would go far in putting out new advertisements trying to convince voters that Democrats are moderates who believe in transparency and tight budgets; after all, moronic voters all around our good nation were duped into supporting Obama has cycle. But these Democrats don't believe in the socialist cause- nope, they are only in it for themselves, displaying their true power hunger by sitting on these stockpiles of campaign cash rather than spending them this election cycle.

For example, Rahm Emanuel resigned from Congress to be the guy who whispers advice into the President's ear, and shoved $1,179,094 in the bank for when he wants to run for Congress again once his boss gets kicked out in 2012. Evan Bayh just stepped aside from his Senate seat, but I don't think we have heard the last of this liberal Democrat- he is sitting on $12,987,399 in the bank. That's 12 million, folks- that'll usually buy you a nice Senate seat in an environment that isn't filled with Tea Parties.