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Schumer in 2013: ‘A President Deserves His Choices to Run the Executive Branch’
Free Beacon ^ | February 9, 2017

Posted on 02/09/2017 2:21:13 PM PST by lowbridge

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is probably now regretting comments he made back in 2013 about presidents filling out their administrations.

"Just about everyone in America–Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative–believe that once you elect a president, he deserve his choices to run the executive branch," Schumer said at a press conference in 2013.

He went on to criticize Republicans for trying to block the federal government from functioning properly.

"But a new tactic has been introduced to try to paralyze the executive branch the way they paralyze the legislative branches, because they really don't want the government to function," Schumer said.

Former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, was in the White House at the time.

Four years later, however, with Donald Trump as president and the Republicans controlling the White House and both houses of Congress, Schumer is doing what he previously criticized.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: schumer; trump

1 posted on 02/09/2017 2:21:13 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

“A President Deserves His Choices to Run the Executive Branch...

....Provided He’s a Democrat.”


2 posted on 02/09/2017 2:24:33 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: lowbridge

Elitists never see the hypocrisy in their own proclamations.


3 posted on 02/09/2017 2:24:51 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: lowbridge

This should be played in an endless loop on a big screen in the Capitol!


4 posted on 02/09/2017 2:26:29 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (JOHN 8:32 THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.)
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To: lowbridge

FORCE feed Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) his own words.


5 posted on 02/09/2017 2:27:09 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: lowbridge

Major hypocrite like all Dems


6 posted on 02/09/2017 2:27:51 PM PST by falcon99
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To: Jim Robinson
Of course they do. They just never feel any shame for saying what's expedient at the time.

-PJ

7 posted on 02/09/2017 2:29:07 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: falcon99

Schumer feels he can say anything because he has a d next to his name. Schumer is attracting new Democrats to his party everytime he puts his head down to read his talking points.


8 posted on 02/09/2017 2:33:49 PM PST by FreedBird
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To: lowbridge

I hate a whiner, especially when his words double back on him.


9 posted on 02/09/2017 2:35:20 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: lowbridge

The `rats are scared, and they should be.
http://academic.regis.edu/jriley/414%20presidential_character.htm

Active/Positive presidential characteristics, James Barber

“ADAPTIVE: self-confident; flexible; creates opportunities for action; enjoys the exercise of power, does not take himself too seriously; optimistic; emphasizes the “rational mastery” of his environment; power used as a means to achieve beneficial results.”

This is Donald Trump to a T.


10 posted on 02/09/2017 2:36:27 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: imardmd1

Upchuck has a law degree,but never practiced law. All he does is collect taxpayer pay checks,and run his ignorant mouth. He is a laughing stock with glasses perched just above his upper lip. For god sakes up Chuck wear the freaking bifocals you egomaniac.


11 posted on 02/09/2017 2:45:15 PM PST by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: lowbridge

The Dems have become their own enemies.

Live by the sword, die by the sword Chuckie.


12 posted on 02/09/2017 3:26:55 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: lowbridge

Why doesn’t Trump get Spicer to quote Schumer word ford word in the Daily Briefing?


13 posted on 02/09/2017 3:27:02 PM PST by richardtavor
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