Schumer: Democrats Enable Tea Party to Bash Government

The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire ^ | January 23, 2014 | Kristina Peterson

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Democrats have long enabled the tea party movement to villainize the federal government, Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) said in a speech Thursday.

In an address at the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund, Mr. Schumer said the grassroots conservative groups won over voters by convincing them that government overreach caused their economic problems — an argument Democrats have done too little to rebut.

“When the tea party elite came in and said, ‘Government is your problem,’ we didn’t say: ‘No, it isn’t. It’s part of your solution,’” said Mr. Schumer, a member of Senate Democratic leadership. Tea party leaders, for instance, have effectively fanned anger against the government in the wake of the economic recession, bypassing the roots of the economic collapse in deregulation and lapses in oversight and glossing over the changes in technology and globalization that have wiped out some middle-class jobs, he said.

“It was a superficial but very believable theory with an easy scapegoat: those Washington politicians and bureaucrats who created all this government to benefit themselves are to blame for all of your ills and anxieties,” Mr. Schumer said. “It allowed the tea party to fill the vacuum and capture the anger that was bubbling in the land.”

Tea party leaders said voters will be reacting this year to Democrats’ big-government solution of 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act was passed....

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- Whatever anyone thinks of Sean Hannity - NY Governor Andrew “GLOCK-9” Cuomo’s insane disjointed rambling “Get outta New York” changed Hannity’s exit date from NY state to much closer; esp. after he talked with his wife - Glenn Beck says he will pull a large crew out of NY too.

Millions are heading for the open income tax-free welcoming arms of Texas and Florida with billions of income and assets and businesses to leave the neighborhoods they grew up in and loved.

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Schumer resents citizens having a voice. He’s a pig.