hat tip Travis McGee
Posted on 02/10/2017 4:17:32 AM PST by NYer
(CNSNews.com) - Senate Democrats flew a restaurant worker all the way from Los Angeles to Washington on Thursday, to help them portray President Trump's nominee for Labor Secretary not only as "unqualified," but also as someone who steals money from workers; looks the other way when workers are sexually harassed; forces people to work for free; punishes them for calling in sick; and fights against raising the minimum wage.
The restaurant worker told a news conference on Thursday that nominee Andy Puzder, the owner of Carl's Jr. and Hardees, "is one of America's worst fast-food CEOs." (The worker also mentioned that she joined a lawsuit against Puzder's restaurants just two weeks ago.)
"Puzder called us the worst of the worst and the bottom of the pool. I work myself to the bone just to survive. Why would we want someone who think so little of workers in charge of policies that could impact all of us?" the allegedly victimized woman asked.
On Thursday, Schumer told the same news conference, "It's disgraceful to put 'secretary of labor' and 'Puzder' in the same sentence, given his views."
Schumer said Democrats are "doing everything we can to stop these awful nominees, whether it's staying late and speaking (on the Senate floor); whether it's holding press conferences; whether it's going on Facebook live where we had huge turnout last night; or whether it's demanding when the record is so abysmal."
Schumer said Democrats hope they can force the withdrawal of Puzder's nomination, but even if they can't, it's all about laying the groundwork to stymie the Trump administration:
"But whether we do or not, we think we have done a real service to America," he said. "We have shown who these Cabinet nominees are. Every time (Education Secretary) Betsy DeVos does something now that might hurt public education, there's going to be millions of Americans looking over her shoulder. Every time (Attorney General) Jeff Sessions hurts immigrants or voting rights, there are going to be millions of Americans looking over his shoulder.
"Because we've laid the predicate for who these nominees are. And we're very, very -- pleased is the wrong word, because we wish they had never gotten to these positions, but we think we've been very effective in showing who they are and putting some constraints on their actions and on the president's actions in future years."
"And, you know, once these nominees, once we get through these nominees, whether beating them, withdrawing, or moving forward, we're going to begin our campaign on Trump's broken promises. Almost every one of these nominees indicates a broken promise to the working people of America."
Chuck Schumer elected to lead Senate Democrats against Donald Trump, GOP
Schumer: ‘We Think We Have Done a Real Service to America’[s enemies, foreign & domestic] by Vilifying Trump’s Nominees
Schumer.
Once a putz always a putz.
After 40 years of thumbing their nose from their front porch at passersby then running into the house to hide it’s understandable that Schumer et al would have to rely on the same rhetoric regardless of issue or nominee.
Obama constantly engaged in this tactic as well, as befits a coward.
As for Schumer and the current Dems, even they will tire of giving press conferences before, during and after every guaranteed loss and their supporters, such as they are, will eventually ask the Dems for an original idea - just one for starters. But the Dems have literally no ideas beyond the trampling of freedoms and the expansion of bureaucracy. Still, that shouldn’t stop people of any political stripe from asking.
Chuckie Boy is the poster guy for why any decent self-respecting person shouldn’t be a Democrat.
Yeah commie leaders always enjoy over throwing the govt
democrats are like crazed dogs
I agree. He’s done a great service by showing the whole nation what we here in the NY metro area have known for years, i.e., why he’s Schmuckis Shumer.
What’s this “we” chit.
They live in a totally alternative reality!
Liberalism is a mental illness.
Not if the vilifying is based on falsehoods.
Ron Wyden is apparently pretty icky. Local radio host says he wants to shower after his town halls. Ronny, D-OR, lives in NY, and, like Chucky, went into politics early in life.
Schumer epitomizes the new ‘White Trash’.
Yes you have! You will be reaping your rewards in 2018.
Maybe Schumer should call for a nationwide “cry in” to protest Trump’s Cabinet selections.
It’s actually kind of funny; they are so powerless that they take credit for talking about current issues on Facebook as “political action”.
Trump 2020
Just what we want the Democratic Party to be publicly symbolized by: a nasty obnoxious man in the Senate who never shuts up and never cooperates on anything and a rapidly aging, boneheaded crone in the House.
hat tip Travis McGee
This is exactly what the wussed out GOP should have been doing to Kagan, Sotomayer, Holder, Lynch etc etc
Of course they would have been vilified as obstructionists by the MSM
But so what
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