Posted on 11/22/2024 10:07:11 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and majority leader for a few more weeks, is not known for keeping his thoughts to himself. But he has been uncharacteristically restrained about offering up his views on even the most eyebrow-raising potential Trump administration nominees emanating from Mar-a-Lago.
“We’re going to wait and see what happens in each of these instances before commenting,” Mr. Schumer told reporters this week, passing up a television camera-ready opportunity he would normally grab to slip a knife into any of the president-elect’s cabinet picks.
He is keeping quiet for a reason, and it is not because he does not have opinions on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration in the making. With some Republicans raising their own profound concerns about Mr. Trump’s ethically and legally challenged choices, such as the former Representative Matt Gaetz to be attorney general and the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, why get in the way of their intraparty hand-wringing?
Mr. Schumer does not want Republicans to be able to paint him as the face of the opposition, a prospect that could help rally the G.O.P. around Mr. Trump’s choices.
His colleagues endorse it as the right move.
“I think this is a moment for Republicans to debate among themselves,” said Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland. “Why get in the middle of a food fight?”
The strategy seems to be paying dividends. When Mr. Gaetz suddenly dropped out of the running on Thursday, he claimed privately that a handful of recalcitrant Republicans — Senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, as well as Senator-elect John Curtis of Utah — had prompted his exit. Right-wing activists quickly went after them, calling on MAGA world to vote...
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So the party that got crushed a few weeks ago is remaining silent so the divides in the winning party can be illustrated...makes sense...
Two things I would LOVE to see TRump do, to reach across the aisle...
Announce he will adopt the Shumer policy of eliminating the filibuster and then stack the court.
Announce Mexican immigration system reciprocity.
Funny article.
The New York Times giving Schumer credit for his silence as if that silence is part of a brilliant plan.
Schumer has never been much of a thinker.
Fact is the Democrats are dumbstruck.
Their grand plan of demonizing Trump has failed again and again.
The Democrats have NO party leadership or least no one who will admit to leading the party into Trump’s electoral college landslide.
Facts are pretty clear.
As senile and as incompetent as Biden is, he would have fared no worse than Comrade Kammy, most likely made a better showing.
To Schumer’s credit he is playing the good soldier and not finger pointing.
He is just biding his time for someone smarter than him to give him his marching orders.
It won’t be long until he is given his script and he will be on the attack.
They’re likely just lining up their attack on Hegseth. I hate to say it but I don’t see him getting confirmed. I hope Trump has Ric Grenell or Chris Miller on deck. Both of which I would be thrilled to see in that position.
He knows the DC swamp RINOS are part of the cabal and will also follow them. Schumer ain’t stupid and he knows if he tells the RINOS to jump they will say how high! They are ALL in the elite party who HATE and DESPISE the American people because we are in their way from them continuing to selling our nation down the river! The DC SWAMP RINOS and cabal remind me of the movie “Eyes Wide Shut “. Evil SOBs!
Schumer isn't talking because he's drunk. He's a drunk, period. The rest of the article reads like bad AI.
But it's worse than that. Trump will never be able to get his program through Congress with a thin majority in the House and 4 Republican senators who will vote with the Democrats. Barring some massive event (like 9/11) that creates a large amount of political capital, Trump is doomed to be a caretaker president unable to get his agenda enacted.
I think Trump can definitely get his agenda through but why he isn’t using the heavy hitters for AG and DOJ I have no idea.
We need a solid guy at DOD. I read somewhere yesterday that Hegseth forgot to mention the little problem with the woman at the seminar. And since Trump is using private security to vett his candidates for some reason it didn’t show up so now he’s kind of blindsided with it.
I looked at Pete HegSeth’s bio yesterday and pretty much pieced together a timeline. I am not real judgemental about people’s sex lives, or if they’re gay or whatever. I don’t get too worked up about it.
That being said it appears pretty evident that Hegseth is a serial womanizer who has been married 3 times and admits to cheating on every single one of them. In 2017 when this sex allegation happened he was still married to wife #2, was dating a colleague at Fox, got her pregnant and she was home nursing a 1 month old child while he was at a seminar chasing other women. The details of the incident in question are basically just gross. I think this is reckless behavior.
As long as Pete Nevertheless is just a Fox news contributor I could care less but as the DOD I can definitely see him as vulnerable to a honey pot scheme etc. The Democrats are going to bring every salacious moment of this stuff out at the confirmation hearing. Its going to be a mess.
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