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.
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.
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.
Schemer is the embodiment of every negative stereotype about NY jews. He will not go over well outside of NY.
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.
In other words, he's a perfect fit to be the Bolshecrat Senate Leader.
Did he speak softly when he called that plane stewardess a b...h for telling him he needed to turn his cell off?
If you thought Harry was dirty, you ain’t seen nuthin’.
SCHMUCK SCHEMER is Harry Reid without the Alzheimer’s Disease.
Nightmare? Are you kidding me?
MOAR DEMOCRAT CLOWN CAR!
We need to worry less about Schumer and more about keeping the Senate under Republican control.
I sure hope he doesn’t have a “treadmill” accident.
I don’t think Reid did one damn thing since he became majority leader in line with western libertarian ideals. He ran roughshod and then used a combination of his power and election corruption to hold the seat one last time. Shumers slimey New York tone will not do anything to advance policy. He comes across as every bit of a crass slimeball to anyone outside of the Northeast.
Won’t matter anyway. They will be in the minority for at least four years.