Posted on 03/22/2026 2:50:24 PM PDT by Signalman
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) isn't in a good place right now.
He's ticked off the people in his party on the left who believe he has been ineffective and should retire. They likely will try to primary him, but that isn't coming until 2028. Meanwhile, they're fuming at him, and even if he wins, they may not re-elect him as leader.
On the other hand, he appears to be trying to appease the left by pulling bad moves like blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) right as we are in the middle of a battle with Iran, when there have been multiple terrorist attacks. The funding shutdown has also caused hundreds of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents to quit, which has led to long lines and hours of waiting at some of the airports. President Donald Trump has now moved to deploy ICE to help out at the airports to relieve the pressure. Border Czar Tom Homan indicated that help was on the way.
The problems are all on the Democrats for placing their political agenda and illegal aliens before the safety of the American people. It shows where their focus truly is. They want to blame it on the Republicans, but it's the Democrats who aren't willing to fund all of DHS.
Schumer knows he's in an untenable box, and I think he's starting to feel it. He's trying to argue to split off bills for funding for the TSA, but that still doesn't deal with all the other important agencies, even if they were to leave out ICE. Then, Elon Musk offered to pay for the TSA agents, so perhaps that threw Schumer off as well, if he is not able to use the TSA as a hostage for the Democratic agenda. Then, too, Trump is sending ICE in to help solve the long lines in the airports, so that issue may go away, too.
Chuck Schumer showed the pressure during a truly funny moment on the floor when he was trying to make his argument, but messed it up, and actually said they needed to "fund ICE."
"We must fund ICE..." Schumer said before he stopped himself. "We must fund TSA right now!” That's hilarious.
Okay, Chuck, we agree, fund ICE. And it looks like President Donald Trump agrees as well.
There's only one way out of this — that's to fund all the DHS. So whether Schumer caves now or later, he's still going to have to cave, just like he has in the past. And it won't matter — whatever he does, he's not going to convince the left to vote for him, no matter what. They've already passed him by.
He should have some humility and just retire. But he should do the right thing here for the American people and fund DHS first.
Hopefully ICE can still do ICE duties while helping TSA.
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RE: Trump should get a trophy for crushing Chuckles.
Yes.
Chuck is ready for his role now in rebooting the Mary Tyler Moore show episode....
Chuckles Bites the Dust” (Season 6, Episode 7), which aired on October 25, 1975.
While serving as the Grand Marshall of a circus parade, Chuckles was dressed as one of his characters, “Peter Peanut” a “rogue” circus elephant mistook him for a giant peanut and tried to “shell” him, resulting in fatal injuries.
The newsroom staff makes light of the bizarre death, with Murray Slaughter famously joking, “You know how hard it is to stop after just one peanut!”.
The Funeral: Mary Richards, who was appalled by her colleagues’ jokes, finds herself unable to control her own laughter during the solemn funeral service.
Chuckles’ signature catchphrase was: “A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants”.
“Chuckles Bites the Dust” is widely regarded as one of the best episodes in television history.
—Wikipedia.
Hilarious meme.
Dead people have rights!
(”We must fund ICE...” Schumer said)
Sounds good, Schumer!
Fly into Timbuktu, I mean Dulles sometime.
tru dat !
“Fly into Timbuktu, I mean Dulles some time.”
“... our nation’s Capitol”..
I have many times. The architect, who devised these up one floor down another then up another etc needs a singapore style caning. I actually have a trip scheduled into IAD sometime in the next few months in spite of that problem. I’ll return out of DCA though.
“they may not re-elect him as leader”
Re-elect?! I thought he was retiring?
Guy was around when God made rocks.
Who needs terrorists when we have the Democrat Party. . . .
§ 1542.213 Training.
(a) Each airport operator must ensure that individuals performing security-related functions for the airport operator are briefed on the provisions of this part, Security Directives, and Information Circulars, and the security program, to the extent that such individuals need to know in order to perform their duties.
(b) An airport operator may not authorize any individual unescorted access to the secured area or SIDA, except as provided in § 1542.5, unless that individual has successfully completed training in accordance with TSA-approved curriculum specified in the security program. This curriculum must detail the methods of instruction, provide attendees with an opportunity to ask questions, and include at least the following topics—
(1) The unescorted access authority of the individual to enter and be present in various areas of the airport;
(2) Control, use, and display of airport-approved access and identification media;
(3) Escort and challenge procedures and the law enforcement support for these procedures;
(4) Security responsibilities as specified in § 1540.105;
(5) Restrictions on divulging sensitive security information as described in part 1520 of this chapter; and
(6) Any other topics specified in the security program.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-XII/subchapter-C/part-1542
Love it!
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