“‘We’re not going to oppose something simply because it has the name Trump on it, but we will certainly not sacrifice our principles just to get something done,’ Schumer said.”
So we’ll be sacrificing our principles just to get something done, then?
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Not to mention releasing a one-sided partisan congressional report by the committee headed by a convicted granny puncher, a report signed only by Republicans, that accuses Dems of engaging in a conspiracy to “cook the books” on the data about elder abuse in order to vote grab for granny votes.
(Hehe…Sen. Lamar Smith’s conspiracy theory report just came out today about climate change and tries to make it sound like Obama was, of course, cooking the books, etc.)
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Schumer would be on the ball if his staff had a written plan in place to compare and contrast with Donnie’s wet dreams. Anti-corruption, anti-nepotism, anti-stupid written in before Donnie’s minions propose any-damn-thing.
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The guy with the matches who wants to watch the world burn always ALWAYS gets his way when the guy with the jug of water prioritizes helping those dying of thirst.
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I like the end of Schumer’s sentence:
… but we will certainly not sacrifice our principles just to get something done,”
Heavens, no. They already sacrifice their principles to get nothing done. They’re gonna run out of principles.
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This is the type of “bipartisanship” gambit that got us the Bush tax cuts and President Trump. Have we not proven in the most disastrous way that you can easily get what you publicly wish for?
Hypocrisy doesn’t sell, politically. People don’t care. Scared that Republicans will paint you as hypocrite because you’re opposing spending as a tax-and-spend liberal who is supposed to support this sort of thing? Then get out front and tell them you don’t buy into fraudulent plans that funnel taxpayer money into the pockets of the rich.
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I want to see Trump arguing with the Freedom Caucus, the establishment, and the few moderates left. I want to see all out war within their party.
One of the first tests right out of the gate is gonna be trade agreements. There are still some Rethugs, moderate or otherwise who see trade as beneficial. Or, at the very least, something to be dealt with in the 21st C. Rump, OTOH, needs to prove he’s got big, brass balls and he’s gonna “MAGA.” I’d be very curious what he told Mr. Slim re: NAFTA. As cordial as that meeting was portrayed, I have no doubt that Slim let him know what’s what. After all, he’s got skin in that game.
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The devil is in the details, and the shyster is know for give with one hand and take away with the other. The shyster is also known for talking out of bothside of his mouth. Schumer is to eager to make deals without seeing the fine print. No one knows what the shyster is up to because he shut down all transparency. Dems. just need to keep their mouth shut and stop with all this kumbaya talk until they know for sure what they dealing with.
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Oh, but there will be.
Just as soon as Qusay and Uday can divest the tRump empires hotels and buy up all the concrete and rebar suppiers.
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And I agree with you. Unfortunately my pessimism is actually realism .
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So the taxpayers pay for public assets when they’re built and again when they’re used. The Kochsters are working toward selling off public lands and parks, no doubt for pennies on the dollar. A lot of infrastructure spending can be funded this way. This will certainly help the top 1% finish the job of grabbing all the wealth and power in the country.
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“We’re not going to oppose something simply because it has the name Trump on it, but we will certainly not sacrifice our principles just to get something done,” Schumer said.
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
—Groucho Marx
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Keep up the circular firing squat so that trump can get anything he wants.
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No such conclusion in the story.
You’re just another far-lefty who can’t see the mote in someone else’s eye because of the beam in your own.
Trying to deliver the kiss of death? We can hope.
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A real POS. We knew that. (Or you should have.) A dimwitted whore, f-ing the USA, as long as he gets paid.
You really should not talk about the president-elect that way.
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What information there is on the infrastructure proposal is that it’s big on funneling money to cronies and small on actual improvements. That would be consistent with GOP business as usual. And for Schumer, the only thing that matters is optics.
I knew there would be a big fall off from Reid to Schumer, and it appears to be true. This will be an early and disastrous loss for the Dems, and a massive win for the underwater Trump administration.
Fck You Schumer.
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Its the poison pills that are always the rub…
Based on the “privatize the profits, socialize the risk” model preferred by Wall Street and the GOP, I think we can expect infrastructure projects to proceed as follows :
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Request “bids” for what oligarchs like to call “public private partnerships”, where a a private corporation gets ownership of public lands or right-of-way in return for developing a project on that patent.
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Award the rights to the corporation who hires the most Trump and/or GOP “consultants” (aka alligators recently liberated from the swamps of DC). Or to keep things simple, who ever books the penthouse at The Old Post Office in DC.
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Provide (as Mitt Romney suggested in 2012 to “save” the auto companies) government guaranteed low interest loans to fund the projects.
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Wall street produces the financing, deposits the government subsidies (and processing fees). The winning bidder simply deposits the money and pays it out to executives and “investors”.
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Winning bidder declares bankruptcies, or demands cash from the government to finish the project.
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When neither the jobs or the infrastructure live up to the promises, Democrats take back over and are blamed when tax-payers are once again stuck with funding the defaulted loans and making Wall Street whole.
Not only is it straight forward, but a well tested way to transfer wealth from tax payers to Wall Street oligarchs.
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