[Liz]

Anyone who takes the time to watch Senator Charles Schumer's speech at the National Press Club (or listens to the audio) will understand that he, too, gets it.

In that speech, Schumer whined about lock-stepping braindead party-line vote for Obamacare.......a move which landed them in political No-man's land.

Chuckie plumb forgot to mention that his hideous atrocity ---- "immigration reform" --- contributed mightily to lock-stepping Dems' demise.

Schumer is the poster boy for "why Democrats should never EVER be given even a smidgen of power."

Once in office they see themselves as saviors instead of servants of the people.

Imbeciles infected w/ the Dem disease go off half-cocked---thinking they've been "anointed"---not elected.

There's a cure for infected Dems-----banishment to the nether-reaches of hell.

[nathanbedford]

Actually Schumer complained only about the timing of the passage of Obamacare, arguing that it should have been delayed for political purposes until after measures to address the decline in the middle-class were taken. He explicitly affirmed Obamacare and stated he was glad he voted for it and was glad it passed.

Schumer's point is that the middle-class has been hurt by forces such as globalization and the digital revolution which have improved productivity but cut jobs and wages leaving the middle-class poorer and poorer. Naturally, Schumer argues that only government offers the solution to this problem and he goes before the National Press Club to subtly enlist them in a campaign directed to the 2016 election to convince the electorate that his party, the party of government, has the answers.

Schumer already had their support before he went there, but now he provides the media and the Democrat party the intellectual rationalization for what they were both going to do anyway.

Schumer explicitly addressed Ronald Reagan's maxim that government was not the solution to the problem, government was the problem, knowing full well that the media was preconditioned to support big government solutions. He wants the media to portray Republicans as the party of no, of negativism when they point out the obvious failures of government, such as we saw in the rollout of Obamacare. Schumer never objects to the miscarriages of big government only to the political fallout.

Schumer wants to capture the middle-class by turning language and reality on their heads and he wants the media to tell the story for him.

The reality is that Schumer wants to extend new dependency to more people in the middle-class thus binding them to his party but he wants to do this in the name of government providing solutions to market caused discrepancies. The problem is capitalism, the solution is government. The reality is dependency politics disguised as populism.