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Democratic New York senator Chuck Schumer is poised to become majority leader
Washington Post ^ | May 20, 2010 | Jason Horowitz

Posted on 05/20/2010 5:55:14 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

On Mother's Day, Chuck Schumer delivered two commencement speeches upstate, flew back to Brooklyn to eat dinner with his wife, mother and daughters and at 7:38 p.m. toted a briefcase into his midtown office for the political ritual known as the Sunday press conference. Picking his way through a line of television cameramen, he joked: "It's like football. No holes. Can't get through," then settled into his habitual spot between a lectern and a ratty blue curtain.

"The Times Square car bomb should be a wake-up call for the administration," Schumer said into a bouquet of microphones, demanding that President Obama increase New York's share of antiterrorism funding. "I'm going to pursue that legislatively."

During his three-decade legislative career, Schumer, 59, has developed a reputation as a razor-elbowed, shamelessly self-serving, media-addicted political monster. He is also arguably the single most effective lawmaker of his generation.

Now, with confidant Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) hanging on to his seat by a thread, the Brooklynite is nearing the goal line of his long game. Succeeding Reid would make Schumer the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history and, more important for the uber-competitive politician, the first among peers. Schumer has thrust himself into the center of issues ranging from jobs to immigration to Supreme Court hearings, but as that momentum has carried him into a more intimate arena where popularity matters, the grating architect of the current Democratic majority has become noticeably more collegial. Perhaps not coincidentally, his colleagues see him as the front-runner to be their leader.

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TOPICS: Israel; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: angle; israel; lowden; nevada; newyork; reid; tarkanian; teaparty
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1 posted on 05/20/2010 5:55:14 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Dems rearrange deck chairs on their titanic.


2 posted on 05/20/2010 5:59:36 AM PDT by Mouton
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To: Second Amendment First

“The Times Square car bomb should be a wake-up call for the administration, and I’m going to pursue that by demanding that severe common-sense gun bans be implemented against all Americans.” Please don’t become a poster boy for Jews, Chucky.


3 posted on 05/20/2010 5:59:48 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Second Amendment First

God willing, that will be MINORITY Leader.


4 posted on 05/20/2010 6:00:41 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: Second Amendment First
It will take a lot to bury Harry Reid, he has tons of money. But there is an expose that I've written that shows how corrupt he is.

https://www.createspace.com/3432232

check my profile for more info. Help spreading the word is appreciated.

5 posted on 05/20/2010 6:02:02 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: Second Amendment First
Scum on a cesspool rises to the top!
6 posted on 05/20/2010 6:03:37 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: Second Amendment First

Schumer is every bit as evil as Obama.


7 posted on 05/20/2010 6:03:46 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: BelegStrongbow

You have to admit that Chucky has been “effective” ~ he’s triggered a movement to repeal the 17th Amendment (direct election of Senators).


8 posted on 05/20/2010 6:04:13 AM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Second Amendment First

It’s hard to believe that this guy could become more insufferable than he already is, but I have been surprised before.


9 posted on 05/20/2010 6:04:22 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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He spends more time trying to become majority leader than
taking care of his constituents.Also,he observes his sabbath,but doesn’t mind making the goys work on Sundays
covering him!


10 posted on 05/20/2010 6:09:19 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Second Amendment First

what the hell have we become when scum like pelosi, reid, schumer and obammy are our “leaders”?


11 posted on 05/20/2010 6:09:40 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Just say NO to RINOs. (FUBO))
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Chuckie is one of the most reptilian politicians. I would never trust this snake on anything.

The passage of March's jobs bill revealed how Schumer operates. Reid, who was preoccupied with health care, delegated the jobs legislation out to North Dakota's Byron Dorgan and Durbin. Durbin proposed his $80 billion package. A month later, after Republican Scott Brown (R-Mass.) had replaced Ted Kennedy and stripped the Democrats of their fillibuster-proof majority, Schumer persuaded Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to sign on to a $13 billion jobs bill.

"He's willing to cross over the aisle," Hatch said. "Many of the others won't."

Orrin, you are a gullible ass.

12 posted on 05/20/2010 6:10:52 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea.")
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13 posted on 05/20/2010 6:11:27 AM PDT by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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Will he then ask Barry Soetoro to show ALL his records???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ6iLuyCAx0


14 posted on 05/20/2010 6:13:30 AM PDT by danamco (")
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To: Joe Boucher
what the hell have we become when scum like pelosi, reid, schumer and obammy are our “leaders”?

Polarized!

15 posted on 05/20/2010 6:15:19 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea.")
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To: Dr. Ursus
As a Jew myself, I have kept a list in my head of "Jews from Hell;" Schumer usually heads it, with others being Abe Foxman, Alan Dershowitz, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Streisand and Frank Rich.

Hey...I've been suffering for 2,000 years (please note sarcasm here) but enduring these people and being judged as a people is more than one can bear.

16 posted on 05/20/2010 6:16:30 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: muawiyah
You have to admit that Chucky has been “effective” ~ he’s triggered a movement to repeal the 17th Amendment (direct election of Senators).

I'm good with that. IMHO that, along with the Income Tax Amendment, are the two changes which undermined the Federal structure and led to the fascist dictatorship under which we now suffer. You'd think a Jew would have a clearer vision about what happens in unrestrained Fascist disctatorships than does Chucky. I guess he figures it's okay if he's in the fascist driver's seat.

Obersturmbanfuehrer Schumer, that's him.

17 posted on 05/20/2010 6:16:31 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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There’s no real evidence that Schumer is a Jew.


18 posted on 05/20/2010 6:17:21 AM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: danamco

it would be nice to see Chuck-U in a blood struggle to the death with bin-Durbin for the senate minority leader spot ... but i s’pose that’s asking too much


19 posted on 05/20/2010 6:18:46 AM PDT by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: Second Amendment First
Schumer, 59, has developed a reputation as a razor-elbowed, shamelessly self-serving...

Yes he serves Chuck Schumer before the nation. He may lead the Dems in the Senate, but hopefully not as the majority.

20 posted on 05/20/2010 6:19:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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