For Schumer, His Method and Success Draw Fire

NY Times ^ | November 1, 2003 | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

[Pharmboy]

More balance from the "Paper of (an Awful) Record" than I would have expected. Upchuck is a radical socialist--they should have called him that.

[MEG33]

I despised him in the House.Nothing's changed.

[tioga]

But Mr. Long reiterated his long-held contention that Mr. Schumer has shown a bias against judicial candidates who display deeply held Roman Catholic beliefs against abortion and gay rights. "He's not a bigot," he said. "But he has a very strong bias."

He is bigoted against Catholics. He and the dems have filibustered them, because their prejudices have determined all Catholics unfit for office. What else is it but that?

[Solamente]

Shoe-muck is a Lens Louse Liberal.

[First_Salute]

Charles Schumer + John W. Hechinger Foundation (Hechinger Hardware)+ Handgun Control, Inc.

Somewhere in ~Kim4VRWC's~'s 2nd Amendment pages, their associations are explained.

[sirchtruth]

Yous Guys can call him all the names you want as well as I, but it will not change the fact that these prix like Schoomer malign and smear Bush's judicials nominees.

What are "WE" going to do about it? Because obviously the dem tactics are working and Frist's and the wobbly Repubs are not!

[Pharmboy]

When I lived in Manhattan and he was running for office (I think it was '98) he was campaigning at my subway stop (77th and Lex). As I walked down the stairway, there he was with extended arm and a smile waiting to shake my hand. I (a big guy wearing aviator sunglasses) slowly truned to him and said clearly and slowly: "NRA"

Boy, you should have seen him backpedal. I had a smile on my face the rest of the day.

[mewzilla]

I live in Upstate NY. All I can say is What success? Sure haven't seen Chucky or any of his success up here. But then wasn't Chucky the guy who said that he thought civilization ended west of the Hudson?

[yoe]

The little innuendoes like this ”Mr. Schumer has used almost every maneuver available to a Senate Judiciary Committee member to block the appointment of the more controversial judges nominated by the Bush administration,

President Bush has nominated judges who have impeccable records and are constitutionalists, they rule by law not by the bench/special interest.This then makes them controversial?

As for filibusters, if done in the original manner, no one goes out of the room; if they (Dems) want to obstruct further, then I think the GOP had better lock and load!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

After all President BUSH has done to avenge 9-11 this fool now wants to play "stab you in the back."

I hope people remember this at election time, but they won't.

[Pharmboy]

I couldn't agree more. The nerve of these people to deny the winning party our judicial appointments because they don't share the kill-the-fetus, grab-the-guns philosophy. The pubbies need to show backbone here--Orin Hatch has done well so far, but he can't do it all alone.

[I still care]

"Some of this has Mr. Schumer puzzled. He sees himself largely as a moderate"

OK, here is the American Conservative Union Voting Record (the lower the number, the more liberal. Jesse Helms,for instance, has 99.)

Hillary Clinton (D) - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - + - 10 12 2 /Life Record - 11

Charles Schumer (D) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + 10 16 22 /Life Record - 6

As you can see, Schumer has a more liberal voting record than Hillary. He knows he's no moderate, the liar.

And shame on the NYT for even letting him get by with saying that, without countering it.

[Unam Sanctam]

Chuck Schumer is a moderate the way Howard Dean is a moderate, i.e., the left-wing media wants to hoodwink centrist readers into believing that these people are not as extreme and bigoted against traditional religious believers as they truly are.

[Pharmboy]

Excellent point--thank you. The Times thnks he's a moderate because they see themselves as moderates. Crazy, no?

[DumpsterDiver]

"You have to pick your shots," he [Schumer] said.

Interesting choice of words, Chuckie.

[yoe]

The term “moderate” is getting a bad rap from these socialists who are claiming to be one. Schumer is a moderate the way Howard Dean is a moderate the way Mrs. Clinton is a moderate..... Moderate on Marxism; heavy on big government – totalitarianism.

Their leadership makes no bones about her Socialistic views, Pelosi never lets the US Constitution stand in her way.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[OESY]

Know yourself, know your enemy
A hundred battles, a hundred victories. -- Mao

If Schumer (or the Times) thinks he is moderate or in the American mainstream, he has failed Mao's first test.

However, I dispute the charge that Schumer is bigoted against Catholics. Schumer is bigoted against all who have deeply held religious beliefs, including Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims. But even that list is incomplete. Now one can add Latinos, African-Americans and any others in the Rainbow Coalition who have deeply held beliefs on the sanctity of life and of marriage or in strict constructionist judicial interpretations of the U.S. Constitution.

The Times almost got it right when they quoted Michael Long of NY's Conservative Party ... "[Schumer] has a very strong bias." Unfortunately, it extends against (d)emocratic traditions that favor majority legislative decisions, the Senate's responsibility in the nomination-confirmation process to Advise and Consent, and more generally the rule of law, as we saw during the Clinton impeachment hearings.

One attention-grabbing Times quote is "Some fellow politicians and political strategists said the reaction [Schumer] has stirred clearly underscored his effectiveness in controlling the debate over the ideological shape of the nation's courts."

Clearly, the Times would not be writing this story to soften Schumer's image if the clamor by conservatives in the media and on the Internet were not having a profound effect on Schumer's reelection prospects in 2004.

[Squat]

It's idiots like "Smuck-u-mer" that keep the word hate alive.

[peter the great]

What would you recommend we do about it. Personally, would start out with a boycott of New York, donations to his political oponents, and donations to anything that opposes the ACLU and its agenda. Remember James Carville who with his famous words sated, "this is war."