Posted on 10/23/2017 12:11:29 PM PDT by John Semmens
enate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) advised Party colleagues facing a tough reelection fight in states carried by Trump last November to mute criticism of gun ownership ahead of the 2018 mid-term balloting. “We all agree that we need more restrictions on gun ownership,” Schumer conceded. “But if too many red-state voters perceive this is our intent we could lose seats in the Senate and House. What I am urging is that we be smart. There is no need to fully reveal what we stand for, especially if it might cost votes. This is a case where an elected Democrat’s silence on the issue will be the best strategy.”
Instead, the Minority Leader suggested that imperiled Democrats “could focus on economic issues. The Trump Administration is pushing a huge tax cut. We can point out that transferring more of the nation’s resources from the public sector into the hands of selfish private individuals endangers the progressive transformation of the United States that former President Obama worked so hard to accomplish. Trump has foolishly boasted that his tax cut will be ‘rocket fuel’ for the economy and will create millions of jobs. This will lure more Americans into the labor force, undoing the leisure gains of the Obama years.”
“Already, the baleful signs of what is to come from the Trump tax cut plan can be seen in surging employment opportunities,” the Senator observed. “Just last month the number of applications for new unemployment benefits fell to a 44-year low. This vital safety net for the work-averse would be torn to shreds by the tax cut ‘rocket fuel’ Trump would unleash on our economy. Standing against such a calamity would, in my opinion, redound to the benefit of every Democrat come November 2018.”
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https://azconservative.org/2017/10/22/schumer-advises-red-state-dems-to-hide-views-on-guns/
In the words of Nancy Pelosi, “Economists agree that unemployment remains one of the best ways to grow the economy in a very immediate way.”
In the words of Nancy Pelosi
I hear Nancy is having trouble with words
She's not doing bad for having had a lobotomy. She did have the lobotomy, right?
Just like the NY Times told its reporters not to express their views on social media (trying to hide the bias)
Hypocrisy? What hypocrisy?? Well at least it’s transparent . . .
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