Posted on 01/17/2016 5:32:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is slamming Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz for attacking âNew York values" and praising GOP rival Donald Trump for defending his home state.
"I'm a Democrat, but Donald Trump did a very good job defending New York," Schumer told host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on New York's AM-970 on Sunday.
"I'd like Ted Cruz to go talk about New York values to the firefighters who rushed to the towers on 9/11, and the police and EMTs, to the brave New York police officers who keep our streets safe," he added.
Schumer also noted that Cruz's wife worked for Goldman Sachs.
"Maybe he wants to go to Wall Street and talk about New York values, you know, where his wife worked," Schumer said.
After Cruz attacked Trump this week for representing "New York values," Trump defended himself at Thursday's GOP presidential debate by invoking the city's response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"I think [Cruz] hurt himself and he deserved to, and Trump, gotta give him credit, was right on the money in his response," Schumer said.
Schumer also referred to a New York Daily News front page showing the Statue of Liberty giving Cruz the middle finger.
"He will be now forever on the front page of the Daily News memorialized, because they had the Statue of Liberty, and she made a gesture in Cruz's direction," Schumer said.
As for the Senate, Schumer touted the body's bipartisan work in December, including passage of a transportation bill. Schumer said the work would be a sign of a productive year ahead.
"I think things are going to be a little better in the next 12 months," he said.
New Yorkers tend to leave others alone unless it’s an emergency. You’ve never noticed that? Besides, traffic moves so slowly, the chance of an accident because of lights being on or off is minimal. I’m sure people signal each other once they’re on the BQE because it’s important once the speed picks up. On the other hand, I’ve never noticed that one way or the other.
If you hate NYers so much, why are you there? I don’t get it.
And if I was to use your logic, since you didn’t answer my question, I guess you DO ride on the sidewalks. Not nice.
None are so blind as those who refuse to see.
The man tells everyone he is going to legalize 11m illegals, and the zombies nod their head in approval. That is a lot of things, but conservative is not one of them.
There are many things I like about the city, but being around and dealing with these self-absorbed yuppy millennials is definitely not one of them.
We are going to move them out and move them back in and make them legal.
I don’t even think Jeb Bush is that far left, but the Donald assures me it’s going to be great and the Donald is never wrong. ( at least that’s what the zombies tell me )
In my opinion, only yuppies ride bikes in the city. They’re a menace.
I was more referring to the average Chinese person on the street. They wouldn't stop to help you if you were lying there bleeding to death. This is much less true for those of them more assimilated into the culture.
I agree. Many are (a menace). But then so are the large number of fools who walk across busy Manhattan streets while texting. Also the 5 or more jerks I tell a day that their lights are off.
This horrible idea of turning NYC into a pedestrian walkway and taking half the streets away for ridiculously wide bike lanes - as if New York streets were designed by Baron Von Haussmann - is a scourge that I hope one day will be remedied. At least Ed Koch finally admitted that his narrow, puny little bike lanes were a disaster and eventually removed them. I’m usually the pedestrian with an phone but on the other hand, when I drive in NYC, I aim to kill people (or bike riders) who get in front of my car.
9/11 got his attention.
He converted in 2011.
I thought conservatives were trying to win converts.
Mid 50’s
Liberals circling the wagons around one of their own. Too bad the Trump worshipers are so unwilling to face reality.
This Cruz/Trump fiasco is just the reason politicizing of 9/11, wars, disasters (think NOrleans hurricane), great tragedies to our country, etal- used to fall under an unwritten rule of “Don’t Do It”.
That is until Democrats found they could no longer win any elections without doing just that (plus using fraudulent voters).
Now it seems anyone can politicize anything. And no one has the gray matter to see how poorly it reflects on the country. Guess the Repubs should start using fraudulent voters too now, what the heck.
I was wondering, did Trump ever call Bill Clinton nasty?
Or would it be rude to call a wedding guest (and his wife) nasty?
True. He's more liberal than either of them.
You’re smoking crack. DJT is good to go on Guns, Immigration, border Security, military, foreign policy, drug policy, and tax policy. Good enough for me right there.
Since EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE has compromised or at least tried to compromise on Republican core values (H1-B anyone?), I guess we just have to use other criteria when selecting someone.
I would end up voting for Trump on the principle that he is a businessman and not a politician. I also truly believe that he loves our country, and what a breath of fresh air that is. If Cruz doesn’t get the nom I see that as God’s sign that Cruz is still needed in the Senate. He would also make one helluva Supreme.
Show me a voting record. Anyone can say what they think people want to hear.
That’s certainly true of politicians...like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio for example. Hell Cruz even told us he’s a natural born citizen. LOL! I take Trump at his word however to abide by the policy statements he has issued.
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