Posted on 10/13/2013 6:46:59 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – The Senate has taken the lead from the House in attempting to devise a plan to reopen the government and avoid a potential default in the coming week.
Speaking with Bob Schieffer on Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he is “cautiously hopeful” that the Senate can pick up where House negotiations have become deadlocked, and hopefully avoid the continued government shutdown through bipartisan Senate discussion.
“I’m cautiously hopeful, optimistic that we can come to an agreement and open up the government and avoid default based on the bipartisan meetings that are going on,” Schumer said on Face the Nation. Between President Obama, Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans, Schumer said, “There’s a will, we now have to find a way, we know the House won’t find that way, so all of it rests on our shoulders.”
The Democratic Policy Committee Chairman and member of the Senate Finance Committee said that much of the debate centers around how the parties are defining revenue and entitlement cuts. Adding that neither Democrats nor Republicans like the sequester, noting Sen. John McCain’s staunch opposition to cuts to defense.
Schieffer asked if there was something that could be given to House Speaker John Boehner in order to appease tea party and more right-wing conservative members of the house to “bring them along.”
“You hit the nail on the head, no one’s sure what will bring those people along. I think there’s a feeling amongst senate Republicans – whether it be Sen. Mcconnell, Sen. McCain, Sen. Collins – that if we can get a broad bipartisan majority to pass something in the next few days it may help crack the logjam in the House,” said Schumer.
“And of course, Speaker Boehner wouldn’t get the 40 or so people on the hard right to go along, but could get a lot of his mainstream Republicans,” continued Schumer. “I think these mainstream republicans are getting fed up with the tea party and Ted Cruz, they see where’s it’s leading them, to very low poll numbers…”
Schumer stated that some in the Senate believe that Speaker Boehner can’t lead, “but if the Senate leads, he could follow our lead.”
Schumer suggested that the government be opened for a period of time before the January sequester so that serious bipartisan discussions could continue.
He added that he hopes more centrist Republicans “break” from the more conservative faction of the party.
“When your party is doing as poorly as it has, mainly because they’ve let Ted Cruz and the Tea Party-type thinking lead them around – you break from that.”
LOL In your dreams, Schumer!
Mainstream republicans can go jump in the lake.
Hear that, GOP-e? You just got the Chuckie Schumer seal of approval!
UpChuck needs to shut his pie hole before all his braims leak out. (whats left of them)
Especially from Schieffer, who's old enough to know what it means.
This is so obvious it’s funny. OF COURSE the dems want the RINO’S to believe this. They KNOW that if they can get the moderate republicans to vote like democrats, there will be a split in the GOP and that means absolute power for the democrats. Think about it: WHY IN THE WORLD would a liberal like Chuck Schumer give beneficial advise to HELP republicans?
This is just the latest talking point from the DNC being spouted all over the Sunday shows and, no doubt, in Carney’s pressers for the next few days.
Haven't you noticed?
It's because the Democratic Party is always about rainbows, unicorns and lollipops...
I’ve said this before and will continue to do so. Conservative
Republicans are traditional Republicans. The job of liberals
is to come up with stupid, destructive ideas. The job of
conservatives is slow them down and/or stop them for the
sake of society. The weaker among the self-described conservatives
kowtow to the news media which has cast their lot with
the liberal agenda. Those of us who have the platform
to explain the players and the game to the uninformed
need to get busy.
The guy is a clown.
When he says “mainstream repubicans” are fed up with Cruz and the Tea Party, it’s because his “mainstream republican” friends in the senate told him so.
-PJ
Chuck Shumer speaking about what’s good for Republicans is a gas. It’s almost as good as having John McCain do the same.
I’d like to have the pleasure of knocking that s..t eating smirk off Schumer’s face.
Haven't you noticed?
It's because the Democratic Party is always about rainbows, unicorns and lollipops...
Really? - Chuckie Schumer knows what “mainstream” Republicans believe???....
NSA Spying
IRS Politicizing
Benghazi Abandoning
Fast and Furious Gun Running
Debt Out of Control
Etc. etc.
Schumer is a maingutter Democrat.
I have heard of this Schumer fellow.
I believe he was the dullard who could not see Anthony Weiner for what he was/is, and kept Anthony employed for many years, paid with Taxpayer dollars
As if we should be putting any credence into anything that spews out of Old Lizard Face’s mouth, in between flicks of his forked tongue
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