And Hillary? She's just flat-out ugly!
Posted on 04/29/2003 3:36:46 AM PDT by kattracks
The long rumored cold war between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Democrat New York colleague Chuck Schumer has erupted into a fall blown civil war, NewsMax has learned.The feud between the pair has been long standing, though quietly talked about among New York political and media insiders.
But now, the civil war between the Hillary and Schumer camps has broken out into a full blown civil war.
The public war between the two Senators was sparked this past week when Steven Brill, author of the 9/11 tome “After,” claimed that Hillary tried to elbow Schumer out of the limelight for his efforts to help New York families in the aftermath of 9/11.
The Brill allegations may have just been the final explosion of a volcano that had waited too long to blow.
A source close to the Schumer camp tells NewsMax, “Chuck knows he has a debt to the Clintons. They did everything, I mean everything the could, to help him get elected when he took on D’Amato [in 1998].”
But such sentiments may be short lived.
“Schumer’s staff are ugly about Hillary, they have nothing nice to say about her,” the source said. The insider said Schumer’s staff regularly refers to Hillary in the most unflattering of terms, and believe she has wrongly taken credit for constituent work Schumer accomplished – and she has consistently sought to upstage him at public events.
Hillary and her staff share similar animus toward Schumer. Brill revealed to NewsMax that in off the record conversations he had with Hillary and her key aides, they openly “denigrated” Schumer.
The source close to Schumer’s camp said the Senator expected Hillary to be a star after winning election in 2000, but he also expected, as the senior senator, Hillary would also show some deference to him.
Schumer has been wounded on several occasions because, despite his status as New York's senior senator, Hillary’s presence has nudged him out of the spotlight. For example, when President Bush traveled to New York on Air Force One after 9/11, Hillary, not Schumer, was given the prized seat next to the president.
And then, there’s money fights.
"The disclosure that Sen. Chuck Schumer has a phenomenal $15 million cash on hand for his 2004 re-election bid in New York further roiled his stormy relationship with the state's junior senator," columnist Robert Novak recently reported.
Democratic Party insiders tell the veteran Washington commentator that Schumer committed the cardinal sin of hitting up donors that Clinton considered her own.
The deteriorating relationship between Clinton and Schumer is "the talk of Capitol Hill," Novak said.
Extra gasoline for this particular political bonfire came from NewsMax.com's report last week that Hillary tried to paint Schumer as a do-nothing when it came to taking care of 9/11 families.
Then she offered bogus evidence to author Steven Brill suggesting that she deserved all the credit.
Reports of Brill's bombshell, first dropped a week ago Sunday on Steve Malzberg's WABC New York radio show, has so far been confined to the internet and talk radio.
That is, until last Thursday, when Fox News Channel dynamo Bill O'Reilly blew the lid off the Brill's story on his top rated cable news show "The O'Reilly Factor."
This Sunday Malzberg told his audience that the mainstream media has pulled out all the stops to keep the public from finding out about the Brill-Hill brouhaha.
"We faxed and emailed transcripts [of Brill charges] to the New York Post, to the New York Times, to the Daily News - nobody wanted to touch this story," Malzberg said.
Instead of reporting the 9/11 scoop on Hillary, the Post included Sen. Clinton this Sunday in its list of the "Gals Who Make Gotham Grand."
"Clinton is considered by friend and foe alike as a president-in-waiting. [Or at least a president-wannabe]," the paper gushed. "Supersmart, she's courting Good Ol' Boy Republicans who can deliver the bacon for New York."
In his own report Novak adds, "The failure of any Democratic presidential hopeful to break away from the pack has increased 2004 Hillary-for-president talk in Democratic circles."
But Hillary’s feud with Schumer, a hardball political player in his own right, could undermine her presidential ambitions.
Great, just fu**ing great.
Any Republican that supports the Hildebeast needs to be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
I never thought I'd have anything in common with Hillary Clinton. Turns out I do: We both hate Chuckie Schumer.
POSTED: 11:47 a.m. EDT April 23, 2003
Door Blows Open In Flight On Plane Carrying N.Y. Senator
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A passenger door blew open on a small charter airplane carrying Sen. Charles Schumer, making for an unnerving flight but causing no injuries.
"There wasn't any feeling that you were going to be sucked out of the plane, but suddenly, we had snow blowing into the airplane," the Democrat said in Buffalo Tuesday, where he was promoting a plan to move all vehicle inspections to the Canadian side of the international Peace Bridge.
Schumer had been flying from New York City to Binghamton for a speech when the mishap occurred Tuesday. The door remained open for about 15 minutes, he said, until the pilot landed the plane in Binghamton shortly after 8 a.m.
Schumer said the pilot immediately assured passengers the plane was built to handle such an emergency. The senator said he was sitting about a foot away with his back to the door, and that one of his aides, Andy Katzman, was sitting next to the door.
Schumer's trip from Binghamton to Buffalo was delayed about 45 minutes while the plane was repaired and inspected.
What's this? I missed it.
Hmmmm. Makes you wonder what this little slip of the tongue is referring to.
And Hillary? She's just flat-out ugly!
I was just making a simple statement about Newsmax, not the fued.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.