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Oxen, I thought I read among my pings last night that you'd sent something about how Judge Roberts was liked by even many Democrats, including some former Clinton officials.
Do you have information on that?
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Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Hillary and Schumer in Open Civil War
Carl Limbacher
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
See previous report, Brill to NewsMax: Notes Prove Hillary Made Up 9/11 Role.
The long-rumored cold war between Sen. Hillary Clinton and her Democrat New York colleague, Chuck Schumer, has erupted into a full-blown civil war, NewsMax has learned.
The feud between the pair has been long standing, though quietly talked about among New York political and media insiders.
But now the civil war between the Hillary and Schumer camps has erupted.
The public war between the two senators was sparked this past week when Steven Brill, author of the 9/11 tome “After,” claimed that Hillary tried to elbow Schumer out of the limelight for his efforts to help New York families in the aftermath of 9/11.
Brill's allegations may have just been the final explosion of a volcano that had waited too long to blow.
A source close to the Schumer camp tells NewsMax, “Chuck knows he has a debt to the Clintons. They did everything, I mean everything they could, to help him get elected when he took on D’Amato" in 1998.
But such sentiments may be short-lived.
“Schumer’s staff are ugly about Hillary. They have nothing nice to say about her,” the source said. The insider said Schumer’s staff regularly refer to Hillary in the most unflattering of terms and believe she has wrongly taken credit for constituent work Schumer accomplished – and she has consistently sought to upstage him at public events.
Hillary and her staff share similar animus toward Schumer. Brill revealed to NewsMax that in off-the-record conversations he had with Hillary and her key aides, they openly “denigrated” Schumer.
The source close to Schumer’s camp said the senator expected Hillary to be a star after winning election in 2000, but he also expected, as the senior senator, that Hillary would show some deference to him.
Schumer has been wounded on several occasions because, despite his status as New York's senior U.S. senator, Hillary’s presence has nudged him out of the spotlight. For example, when President Bush traveled to New York on Air Force One after 9/11, Hillary, not Schumer, was given the prized seat next to the president.
And then there are money fights.
"The disclosure that Sen. Chuck Schumer has a phenomenal $15 million cash on hand for his 2004 re-election bid in New York further roiled his stormy relationship with the state's junior senator," columnist Robert Novak recently reported.
Democratic Party insiders tell the veteran Washington commentator that Schumer committed the cardinal sin of hitting up donors that Clinton considered her own.
The deteriorating relationship between Clinton and Schumer is "the talk of Capitol Hill," Novak said.
Extra gasoline for this particular political bonfire came from NewsMax.com's report last week that Hillary tried to paint Schumer as a do-nothing when it came to taking care of 9/11 families.
Then she offered bogus evidence to Brill suggesting that she deserved all the credit.
Reports of Brill's bombshell, first dropped a week ago Sunday on Steve Malzberg's WABC New York radio show, had been confined to the Internet and talk radio.
Until Thursday, that is, when Fox News Channel dynamo Bill O'Reilly blew the lid off Brill's story on his top-rated cable news show, "The O'Reilly Factor."
On Sunday, Malzberg told his audience that the mainstream media have pulled out all the stops to keep the public from finding out about the Brill-Hill brouhaha.
"We faxed and e-mailed transcripts [of Brill charges] to the New York Post, to the New York Times, to the Daily News - nobody wanted to touch this story," Malzberg said.
Instead of reporting the 9/11 scoop on Hillary, the Post on Sunday included her in its list of the "Gals Who Make Gotham Grand."
"Clinton is considered by friend and foe alike as a president-in-waiting. [Or at least a president wannabe]," the paper gushed. "Supersmart, she's courting Good Ol' Boy Republicans who can deliver the bacon for New York."
In his own report Novak adds, "The failure of any Democratic presidential hopeful to break away from the pack has increased 2004 Hillary-for-president talk in Democratic circles."
But Hillary’s feud with Schumer, a hardball political player in his own right, could undermine her presidential ambitions.