Posted on 03/28/2015 7:00:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
One unfortunate day in the future, America will again have a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate. And when that day happens, conservatives had better start digging foxholes, because their worst nightmare will be the majority leader.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, the former hyper-partisan majority leader (and present minority leader) announced yesterday that he will retire at the end of his term in 2017. He named Chuck Schumer, D-New York, as his heir apparent.
As a Westerner from a blue state that could flip to red at any time, Reid was forced to take account of libertarian views. Nevada is, after all, the state of gambling, drinking, whoring, and the open carry of handguns. As the Bundy Ranch affair last year indicated, plenty of Nevadans don’t think very highly of the federal government telling them what to do and what not to do.
Schumer will have no such limitations. There will never be any serious electoral opposition to Schumer. He is guaranteed to get re-elected from deep-blue New York for the rest of this life. He will never self-destruct by getting caught with his pants down like Bill Clinton or Eliot Spitzer. Nor will Schumer ever succumb to lowbrow corruption and deceit like Hillary Clinton deleting government e-mails. He’s easily the most hardworking, take-nothing-for-granted, lunch bucket-style politician the Democratic Party has. He doesn’t come from inherited wealth. He can’t – and doesn’t – view politics as the pastime of the idle rich or as a launching pad into celebrity culture.
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Both Daschle and Reid both spoke in soft whispers, intentionally, to bely and hide their leftist militancy.
Schumer will be outright and strait-forward with his New Deal/Great Society liberalism. And for every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Remember it was Schumer that said the Reagan republicanism was dead. Well, it's back, and is preparing to sweep the nation once again.
January of 2017, when Schumer is scheduled to take over as democrat leader, may be a very different place!
Chuck is a corrupt #^*$.
He has repeatedly lied to the public and to Congress.
He said he didn’t care that the ATF told lies at the Waco hearings (his excuse was ‘well both sides did it’, one of them under the color of law enforcement).
Start the ethics probes.
During the summer of 1968, I found myself in Boston doing temporary office work to survive. One of my jobs was a week as fill-in receptionist at black radio station WILD. At that time, the country was politically on fire.
There were some (radical for that time) blacks who said they'd prefer Wallace as President over all the other choices. Why? They knew where he was at.
Out with the old scoundrel, in with the new one.
Charles “The Snake” Schumer.
If he ever wants to be majority leader, he will have to help make the Senate work...something Reid refused to do...
He will need to seen as a leader not an obstructionist...
Being an obstructionist worked out real well for Reid...!!!
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Only worse.
Schumer is know to be dogmatic, arrogant, & bad tempered. Like Mario Cuomo, he regard political opposition from the right as a personal affront.
Republicans need to play some serious mind games with Schumer and make him lash out, curse & denounce those who dare to disagree with him. That didn’t work with Reid who would just duck & cover.
Make Schumer bare his fangs!
Just like Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer will be drunk on power over play his hand.
I remember.
I have never forgotten Waco.
May the hammer of fiscal reality embrace him lovingly...
No, it really won’t be. Chuckie is paid staff of the New York City Wall Street firms and he knows it. While all of the millionaires in the Senate owe their wealth and power to corporate interests in some level, it is rarely as up front and obvious as it with New York politicians.
The lesson of Spitzer was a profound reminder to any New York politician: “Once we pay for you, you had better STAY paid for or we will ruin you.”
If he takes Harry’s place on his first day as Senate minority leader, send him an exercise machine.
Schumer could be as bad as Reid but he could never be worse.
He’ll be worse.
No, it really won’t be. Chuckie is paid staff of the New York City Wall Street firms and he knows it. While all of the millionaires in the Senate owe their wealth and power to corporate interests in some level, it is rarely as up front and obvious as it with New York politicians.
The lesson of Spitzer was a profound reminder to any New York politician: “Once we pay for you, you had better STAY paid for or we will ruin you.”
You are spot on with this comment.
Mike Tyson learned this the hard way as well.
Schemer is the embodiment of every negative stereotype about NY jews. He will not go over well outside of NY.
The one thing that might possibly keep Schumer in check in deep blue NYS is its Jewish population that is becoming marginalized nationally thanks to Obama/Jarrett. Those NY Jews may just possibly (not probably) wake up and keep Chuckie on his toes.
It has been said that the most dangerous place in DC and NYC is to be caught between Chuck Schumer and a camera.
I hope that people will soon get sick of the obnoxious twerp.
This guy has it bass-ackwards. Reid worried about libertarians? That’s the dumbest thing ever to come out of the Thinker. Could Durbin be Reid’s equal ? Sure. But the quite detestable Schumer could never reach those heights.
After all, the NRA had Reid in their pocket, so we were told, and the fix was in against Angle with the Republican establishment. (Don't run a serious campaign against the Dem leadership, and they'll return the favor to us... one hand washes the other, y'know what I'm sayin'? )
She wasn't a perfect candidate, but she was a Republican candidate, however the rationale that was sold to the voters was "well, if we really support Sharron Angle against Reid and she wins, we'll get stuck with Chuckie as (at that time) majority leader."
Now we're getting Chuckie anyway, except as minority leader for now but as this article points out at the beginning, possibly as majority leader sometime in the future. Entirely plausible given the feckless Republican leadership especially in the Senate.
A sincere thanks again to the Republican machine, Chris Cox, and the NRA. Way to go, guys, you only squandered a Senate seat for six years, and substituted Dingy Harry for Chuckie for the same length of time, and confirmed the craven fecklessness of the Republican machine.
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