Sounds to me like Schumer is setting the stage and making the case for repeal. If so, then I applaud his honesty.
Its Schumer so it’s doubtful honesty is involved. Must be another explanation.
11/25/14: "Terry McAuliffe is unhappy – with Democrats - Clinton confidant sounds off on his party’s electoral bumbling"
PETERSBURG, Va. – "Don’t be fooled by the expansive grin, outstretched arms and the booming baritone with which Terry McAuliffe greets throngs of churchgoers here: The governor of Virginia is frustrated.
Not with his job in Richmond — McAuliffe says he has loved every second of it. The only problem with being governor, he laments, is that sometimes he has to sleep. If powerful Republicans have stymied McAuliffe’s legislative agenda, he takes it in stride. On his overarching goal — economic development — the governor pronounces his administration “as wildly successful as anything I could want to do.”
It’s McAuliffe’s own party that has him down.
He begins carefully — “I don’t mean to be overly critical …” — but then he gets rolling. In a 2014 campaign fought against a backdrop of dropping unemployment and record highs for the Dow, he says there’s no excuse for Democrats to cede the argument on jobs to Republicans. “They didn’t talk about it!” he exclaims. “They didn’t have a strategy.”
“Why come out and vote for the Democratic Party? There was no message to say: Here’s what we’ve done. I wish the party or whoever had done a national media campaign and say, here’s what you get when you elect Democrats,” McAuliffe says. “But there was no — what was the message out of ’14? I’m asking you rhetorically — do you know? No. What was it?”
McAuliffe, a close friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton, calls it an urgent, hair-on-fire priority for Democrats to learn how to tie together an assertive, socially liberal message with close-to-home concerns about opportunity and economic competitiveness. In 2008, he was Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, but says he won’t take a formal role with her 2016 campaign, if she runs, because of his commitments as governor. But he says he talks “all the time” with Bill Clinton and would be an enthusiastic “friend of the family” if and when Hillary Clinton launches her campaign.
“The biggest issue in this upcoming election, it’s still going to be the economy. It’s going to be this income inequality, the issue of the middle class dropping down,” McAuliffe predicts, with a shot of nostalgia for the 1990s: “I always like to say, Bill Clinton created more millionaires and billionaires than any president, but you know what, more people moved out of poverty. Middle-class income — all-time high.”.............
Never trust a thing Schumer says. You can safely ascribe the worst possible intention imaginable to any action he takes. You’ll be right more often than not.
No such thing as an honest Democrat.
>>Sounds to me like Schumer is setting the stage and making the case for repeal. If so, then I applaud his honesty.
Don’t believe this for a second.
Here is my translation: I was for 0vomitcare when it was political advantageous for me to be for it. Now that voters are angry about it, I need to distance myself from it in order to benefit my political career. I don’t give a crap about the voters, minorities, the middle class, the rich, the poor, or anybody else. I just want to line my pockets and accumulate power to benefit myself so I will say whatever will get me votes or make me richer or more powerful. Like Gruber, I think people are idiots with short attention spans and they will forget what I said in the past. I can make an emotional appeal and the suckers will fall for it every time.