Posted on 11/15/2025 1:46:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
For Chuck Schumer’s growing list of haters, there are two realities that are going to both excite and frustrate: He’s not going anywhere as Senate Democratic Leader, and it’s increasingly unlikely he’ll be reelected in 2028.
Schumer is now the most unpopular Senate leader with his own party on record. The Democratic base is furious at him for effectively permitting eight Democrats to vote with Republicans to end the government shutdown. For many Democratic voters, the shutdown was a great letdown because it did not secure Schumer’s stated objective: to renew expiring federal subsidies for Obamacare. It’s hard, in fact, to see what Democrats actually won for all their trouble.
Schumer is seen by many progressives and even restive moderates as a political leader who is out of touch with the current mood. He has not offered many compelling anti-Trump arguments or a vision for the Democratic Party going forward. He is not the fighter they crave. His communication style is pulled from the 20th century and is, to a growing share of Democrats, too milquetoast. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, is resented less, but he is not wildly popular, either. Democratic voters, at the moment, seem to be nursing nostalgia for Nancy Pelosi, who announced recently she was not seeking reelection. Her dynamism would be hard for anyone to match.
If many of these Democratic voters hope, come later this year or next, either man is replaced as leader, they are going to be disappointed. Neither have any serious rivals in their caucuses, and the actual Democratic members of Congress will, on the balance, always seek to avoid bloody leadership fights. As long as Schumer wants to be leader, he will remain so. What could change the calculus is if Democrats pull...
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Schumer needed to end the shutdown. So, he found eight Democrats to vote for it who were either not running again or probably wouldn’t be hurt by the vote. He probably told them, “Look we must do this. The shutdown has backfired. Plus, I’m going to say some bad things about you. But you can have (some trade item) and I’ll owe you a favor in the future.”
For all my disgust, I don’t hate Schumer. But I wouldn’t shed any tears if a heart attack or a massive stroke were to relocate him to “the Other Side”.
“The Democratic base is furious at him for effectively permitting eight Democrats to vote with Republicans...”
/eyeroll
Watch "House of Cards" with Kevin Spacey.
Kabuki can be very entertaining....
[And has a long history]
-PJ
Kabuki can be very entertaining...
Wonder who the stage hands are in the Senate?
Final solution?
Pre-17th amendment...
What crap reporting.
He's not going to live forever, so yes, he will be going *somewhere*, and if he's not likely to run then he will also be going somewhere because he won't be holding office any more.
Make him eat his raw cheeseburgers, problem solved.
“Don’t know if we’d have better Senators or worse though.”
Somehow many State legislatures are a wretched hive of scum and villainy. [Even more so than Congress]
Letting them pick Senators these days would be unlikely to improve matters. [Maybe a one and one situation...]
Inner Party Socialists do not really like other Inner Party Socialists. Not a lot of loyalty or integrity to count on from others.
Trotskyites vs Stalinists.
For the life of me, I don’t understand how the Democrats ended up in a position where their leaders in both houses of Congress were from the same state — and the same CITY in that state.
Sometimes within the same group. Can’t trust anyone. They’ll turn on you to save themselves.
Stalin killed Kirov, because Kirov got too popular.
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