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How Schumer’s messy style delivers for Dems: ‘I persist’
The Associated Press ^ | August 8, 2022 | By LISA MASCARO (D-AP)

Posted on 08/08/2022 2:23:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shoes off, an almost-empty container of leftovers, an unfinished glass of wine -- this was the exhausted portrait of one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington after Senate passage of President Joe Biden’s sweeping health, climate and economic package.

New York’s Chuck Schumer effectively moved from minority to majority leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, and he has helmed the chamber through a tumultuous, messy and yet surprisingly productive run with the longest evenly split 50-50 Senate in the nation’s history.

Methodical he is not, as the crumbs scattered on the senatorial carpet in his office off the Senate floor attest.

But with a willingness to broker politically unpleasant compromises and a New Yorker’s drive to keep pestering his colleagues, Schumer is using his party’s fragile congrol of the Senate to substantive, sizable accomplishments unseen in recent years.

“Persistence. I persist,” Schumer said in an interview late Sunday evening after the round-the-clock session and Senate passage of Biden’s bill.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; journalism; media; press
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1 posted on 08/08/2022 2:23:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should name a type of toenail fungus after Schumer.


2 posted on 08/08/2022 2:25:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because Republicans are pussies.


3 posted on 08/08/2022 2:26:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“How Schumer’s messy style delivers for Dems: ‘I persist’”

So do hemorrhoids Chuck and they have a lot in common with you.


4 posted on 08/08/2022 2:27:00 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Schumer is the poster-boy of an evil our Framers hoped we’d avoid. He’s a lifelong politician who looks out for the power interests of himself and his party and nothing else.

The country be damned.


5 posted on 08/08/2022 2:28:10 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP’s slobbering admiration for the scumbag is nauseating.


6 posted on 08/08/2022 2:28:10 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t it amazing the lengths they will go to, to SCREW the American people?


7 posted on 08/08/2022 2:29:34 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

87K new IRS agents


8 posted on 08/08/2022 2:37:28 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The most repulsive man in Washington.


9 posted on 08/08/2022 2:38:18 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He did persist and thnx to him the gop will probably pick up 3 seats in ny
3 rats are on video stating they will not vote for a spending bill without eliminating the salt act
2 just said they will bote yes without the salt elimination
The republican candidates there do thank you


10 posted on 08/08/2022 2:40:53 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: dfwgator
Because Republicans are pussies for sale!
Fixed.
11 posted on 08/08/2022 2:46:47 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
‘I persist’

Yes, like a rectal itch.

12 posted on 08/08/2022 2:55:48 PM PDT by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More like a banana republic. Start calling him sinator chiquita.


13 posted on 08/08/2022 3:05:46 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Jacquerie

Never held a real job as far as I know.


14 posted on 08/08/2022 3:06:12 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Working tirelessly to destroy an entire nation.


15 posted on 08/08/2022 3:19:54 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: ealgeone
Chuckie baby is a shorty like putin: 5 feet 7
16 posted on 08/08/2022 3:27:35 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: hinckley buzzard

BTW, Amy Schumer disgusting comedian and Chuck Schumer disgusting politician are cousins!


17 posted on 08/08/2022 3:40:45 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: gibsonguy
AP's slobbering admiration for the scumbag is nauseating.

Schumer is any expletive we hurl at him, but he gets things done. Milquetoast Mitch not so much.

18 posted on 08/08/2022 3:42:39 PM PDT by buckalfa (Kilroy was here, but who was he?)
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To: dfwgator

ALL Bush League Republicans are Assistant Democrats.


19 posted on 08/08/2022 3:44:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Too bad about your daughter’s friend, Schmuck


20 posted on 08/08/2022 3:44:31 PM PDT by combat_boots
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