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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.

Schumer represents a dying state in the northeast that is losing jobs and productive people to states with less government intrusion/extortion; he and other Democrats know that unless they nationalize their socialist policies, Red (capital R) states will continue dying on the vine. Their government programs don’t work if the government can’t tap companies and individuals for the revenue.

I hike in a state park in NY where a beach has been closed since Hurricane Irene due to lack of funds; not Sandy, but Irene a year earlier.

Schumer whined that lock-stepping Democrats passing Obamacare Was a Mistake.....

FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA------the American people could not have agreed more.

Republican takeover map as of midnight 11/5---Map courtesy of http://www.nationaljournal.com

<><> Alaska went Republican; so goes LA Dec 6.
<><> Amnesty-worshippers were soundly defeated.
<><> Of 140 Southern state legislative districts, 110 went Republican.
<><> 29 lockstepping O/Care Grubercrats--OUT.

“Actually Schumer complained only about the timing of the passage of Obamacare...”

Correct analysis. His statements are very similar to many dems immediately after Nov 2014 election - “we were not effective in getting our message out.” What they say in public is not what they say in private.

This guy Schumbag is a greasy, slick NYC political party hack who lives in a media enabling, protective bubble.

A few follow up questions to Senator Schumbag: Why did he not read all 2000 pages before he voted for it? Does he really think if he did read it before voting, he would have understood it how it was going to work and therefore could justify voting for it? Why should anyone in NY trust him as being a minimally competent Senator when he marched in lock-step with his party on Obamacare instead of turning their backs on the problems of the middle class? Nice attempt by Schumbag to try to change the subject from the continuing “failures of Obamacare” to the “timing of Obamacare.”

Now time for another cup of coffee. Happy Thanksgiving!