Posted on 02/22/2016 7:12:21 AM PST by MarvinStinson
New York City's former top cop said Sunday that the Obama administration cut funding to fight terrorism in the city to retaliate against Sen. Chuck Schumer for opposing a nuclear deal with Iran.
"There's a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer," Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said in an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.
"Apparently they remember very well that Sen. Schumer did not support their Iran deal," Kelly said, arguing the proposed cut "was aimed at getting a reaction from Sen. Schumer."
Schumer was the most senior Democrat in Congress last year to oppose an international agreement under which Iran agreed to give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
Schumer, a Democrat set to become the party's Senate leader, joined New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city's police and fire commissioners to blast a White House budget plan that would cut annual funding for the city's Urban Area Security Initiative from $600 million to to $330 million.
Schumer statements drew a pointed White House response, an unusual reaction aimed at a key Democratic ally.
"At some point, Sen. Schumer's credibility in talking about national security issues, particularly when the facts are as they are when it relates to homeland security, have to be affected by the position that he's taken on other issues," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
"Sen. Schumer is somebody that came out and opposed the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He was wrong about that position," Earnest said. "And when people look at the facts here when it comes to funding for homeland security, they'll recognize that he's wrong this time too."
That is the immediate conclusion I reached as well. Schumer dared to diverge, he must be punished-—by punishing an entire large population. Just another manifestation of what a lump of steaming excrement Odungo is.
They’re not going to blow up Joe’s dry cleaners in Frozen Sneakers. People would laugh at them.
What a SMALL MINDED CHILD Obama is!!!
By Kyle Smith February 20, 2016
http://nypost.com/2016/02/20/obamas-rudeness-hits-new-heights-with-scalia-schumer/
Gratuitous. Nasty. Petty. Spiteful. Insulting. Just plain rude.
When the rhetoric of a major party's leading presidential candidate falls to this level, we should be scornful.
So, how is it OK when it isn't just a presidential candidate but a president who does it?
Demeaning and snarking his political opponents has been a favorite habit of President Obama for the last eight years. Obama is perhaps the first president who believes that leading the country and playing to the beliefs of the extremists in his own party amount to the same thing,.
Obama fans are motivated in large degree by sheer hatred. They love to hear their idol channel their rage by bashing people they don't like.
Obama's latest, silent insult -- leaving a spokesman to explain he had better things to do on a Saturday than attend the funeral of a 30-year justice of the Supreme Court -- isn't surprising when you consider the mean-spirited things he says virtually every time he steps in front of a microphone.
This week, Obama spokesman Josh Earnest bashed Sen. Chuck Schumer, who objected to cuts in counterterrorism funding for New York. Earnest said, in essence, why listen to this fool on anything if he opposed the Iran deal, especially since "most Democrats" were in favor?
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton noted, accurately, that this was pure politics -- the president was punishing New York to get back at Schumer.
Obama was doing exactly what he accuses Republican members of Congress of doing, calling them "hostage takers . . . [of] the American people." Except that his rhetoric was about a debate over tax cuts, not Obama's actual cutting of money needed to keep the nation's largest city safe.
Meanwhile, when it comes to actual hostage takers, Obama can't muster much outrage. At last year's national prayer breakfast, he barely paused to obliquely refer to the Islamists who had just burned alive a Jordanian pilot so he could single out Christianity for bashing: "Lest we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
If you recall Christian principles, as embodied by a minister named Martin Luther King Jr., being a crucial component of civil rights victories, Obama thinks you're a dope. If you can't see how 11th-century atrocities more or less cancel out the ones committed the day before yesterday, you're not the broad historical thinker Obama thinks he is.
Comparing Islamist fanatics to conservative Americans, and implying that he is more comfortable with the former, is a favorite Obama tactic. Dismissing extremists in Iran, Obama said last August, "In fact, it's those hard-liners who are most comfortable with the status quo. It's those hard-liners chanting 'death to America' who have been most opposed to the deal. They're making common cause with the Republican caucus."
Just two days after promising to scale back his attacks on Republicans at the 2013 Jefferson Dinner, Obama told George Stephanopoulos his opponents wanted to "gut Medicare or gut Social Security or gut Medicaid." At the end of 2012, at a moment when Republicans thought they were on the verge of closing a budget deal with Obama, he instead staged a press conference and said the Republican policy was "we're just going to try to . . . shove spending cuts at us, that will hurt seniors, or hurt students, or hurt middle-class families." In 2012, he advised Latino voters to think, "We're gonna punish our enemies." In a 2012 chat with Douglas Brinkley for Rolling Stone, he called Mitt Romney a "bulls---er."
All of this has come from a president who is forever bewailing the partisan rancor of a country that, he keeps sadly informing us, has let him down by proving unable to discuss its differences in a civil way.
Obama fanboys often claim that their superhero has been subjected to an unprecedented level of attack and can only take so much. George W. Bush certainly took more than his share of abuse, but to fire back would have struck him as ungentlemanly. He ducked the insults as he ducked that flying shoe in Iraq.
Besides, usually Obama fans are so desperate to come up with an example of "vitriol" directed against their superhero that they wind up quoting the last four words of a 2009 remark by Rush Limbaugh: "Look, what [Obama] is talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work . . . I hope he fails."
Limbaugh and Obama have more in common than either would like to admit. Except one of them is supposed to represent the entire country. One of them isn't supposed to sound like talk radio.
Isn’t that the equivalent of the christie bridge controversy? Criminal government...
A RAGHEAD?
as i recall, the general opinion on this board was that schumer waited to oppose the iran deal until he knew that there existed enough support for it to be approved. he had to oppose to keep peace with his constituents.
i think this leak is just bs to make it appear that schumer really took a stand that required some courage. we all know, in reality, he’s an obama lap dog.
Everybody knows that the Magic Negro's regime is all class.
And, of course, that Constitutional behavior from departments and bureaus and Services CAN NEVER BE POLITICIZED, AS WE SEE IN THE RECENT iPHONE-FBI debacle.
Of course we can trust these elected and appointed criminals never to abuse the unlimited power of government to commit high crimes against the highest principles of our Constitution.
And they wonder why TRUMP is unbeatable?
Schumer is a communist and a gun-control-freak.
He’s not a sodomite (that I’m aware of, although like all democRATS he panders to them) and he’s not a mohammedan.
I guess that makes him Barry Soetoro’s enemy.
Thanks MarvinStinson.
“My way or the highway” Obama.
The dimrats don’t see that baraq will screw them as well. After hamstringing the US health care industry, he imports diseases that were eliminated years ago. Most of us have no immunity to these diseases. He is importing muslims with no way of knowing if they are jihadis or not. He has put out country is so much debt, we may never get out of it.
The dimrats openly support the man who will destroy them.
And the dimrats think that all the coming chaos will not affect them.
Let me finish your sentence for you, a MARXIST, MUSLIM!!!!
You are trying to confuse me.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Punishing New Yorkers for electing Schumer, rich in irony.
I'm really not. I'm trying to let you know the common language of FR, so you will be seamlessly understood.
Well, isn’t that special.
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