Posted on 03/22/2017 3:39:37 PM PDT by qam1
As a conservative, I’m thrilled by the arrival of unified Republican government. But the politician I’m most grateful to in Washington today isn’t President Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
It’s Chuck Schumer.
That’s because the Democratic Senate minority leader is doing more than anyone in our nation’s capital to ensure the passage of the most conservative health-care and tax reform possible — while working overtime to make sure that Democrats who voted for Trump in 2016 stay in the GOP fold in 2018 and beyond.
The biggest fear many conservatives had after the 2016 election was that Trump would be too quick to cut deals with the Democrats. He holds heterodox positions on everything from spending, foreign policy and entitlements to the minimum wage, trade and health care.
And he’s a dealmaker, not an ideologue. He would have loved nothing better than to cut deals with Schumer. Indeed, Trump reportedly called Schumer the morning after the election offering to do just that.
Instead of accepting Trump’s outstretched hand, Schumer’s Democrats are opposing virtually everything that Trump does. They are attempting to block not only his Cabinet nominees but also his sub-Cabinet appointments. And they have expressed zero interest in working with him on bipartisan legislation.
The battle cry of the Democratic Party is “Resist!”
This unrelenting resistance has pushed Trump to the right. Since Trump knows he can’t get Democratic votes for his health and tax plans, he doesn’t need to make concessions to the left. Conservatives criticizing the Trump-Ryan health-care plan as “ObamaCare lite” should consider how much worse it would be if Schumer had decided to sit down with Trump at the bargaining table.
This would have been smart policy and smart politics — allowing Schumer to sow divisions between.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
OH PUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chuck isn’t for anyone but himself and everyone knows that...oh well New York Peeing Post what do you expect???
Did you even read anything other than the headline?
Yeah, I’m not like a lot of people and just read the headlines, I like to know what it is that is being talked about...guess us older women (72) are kinda like that...what about you???
Ryancare is caving in to Schumer, who is not even at the table. It’s as if Paul Ryan is living in abject fear of the man for no reason.
About a month ago I got sick of hearing UpChuck rave about how great Obamacare was so twice I emailed his office and asked if it is so great why did Congress exempt themselves, their families and I think their aides from it. His response is shoe in the two sets of parentheses below:
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Well, that is a curious chain of events, that Chuck Schumer would be put in the role of being the “rope-a-dope” foil for Donald Trump. I know The Donald can be pretty subtle at times, but his treatment of Chuck Schumer has been anything BUT subtle.
Does Chuck know and acknowledge his role in this Kabuki Theater being played out?
O M G
Life imitates art!
I remember this one — there is something put in the water to cause all the inhabitants to hallucinate.
The few that don’t share the hallucination are hunted down and killed.
Part A is clearly underway!
Someone spit on the chrome on your Harley today? You are quit feisty this afternoon.
Only the RINO part.
Bwhahahaha! Maybe if this legislation passed in North Korea, it would be conservative.
Yes, and nothing in the article suggests that Chuckie is helping intentionally, or that he’s not just out for himself. Therefore your comment makes little sense if you read the article. It does make sense if you only read the headline.
When then since your the Professor then why don’t you charge people for reading before you open your mouth...
I have no idea what that even means.
Nanzi Pelagosi will save the remnants of zerOcare tomorrow when the Freedom Caucus wants something more. Trump can claim bipartisanship. UpChuckie will do the same thing in the Senate.
It seems remarkable to me that so many so-called “conservatives” would choose to vote WITH Nancy Pelosi and vote AGAINST President Trump.
We expect the hive-mind Democrats to do whatever Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden command.
But it’s hard to see why those so-called “conservatives” are willing to be self-exposed as “useful idiots”.
To them: Bye-bye in 2018!
It seems remarkable to me that so many so-called “conservatives” would choose to vote WITH Nancy Pelosi and vote AGAINST President Trump.
We expect the hive-mind Democrats to do whatever Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden command.
But it’s hard to see why those so-called “conservatives” are willing to be self-exposed as “useful idiots”.
To them: Bye-bye in 2018!
Good article.
It’s from the New York Post.
But down at the bottom of the article it says, “Special to The Washington Post.” ???
No one ever said Chuck isn’t a Schmuck.
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