Chuck is increasingly good at trolling GOP members of Congress.
He’s also kept Senate Dems coordinated and united.
All those members of the Unicorn Mounted Purity Brigade who whined about what a lousy Senate leader for Democrats Schumer was going to be need to eat their words.
Agree, and at the risk of starting a war with our fair-haired friends, I have to say the self-serving moral narcissism of Sens. Sanders and Warren in criticizing President Obama over accepting speaking fees is nauseating.
The Democratic Party is the CCDC now- that is the Country-Club Democratic Party. They do not care about their roots- about the unions and the working person. They do this at their peril.
Let them crash and burn.
Bullshit, dear.
Your working-class-hero affectations notwithstanding, let’s review the recent news about the federal budget talks.
Despite being in the minority, the Democrats were able to defend their priorities – which do not seem those of the country club set.
The Democrats pushed back against the president’s proposed $18 billion cut to domestic agencies and the State Department—even the Environmental Protection Agency, which was slated for a 27 percent cut, got 99 percent of its budget funded.
Lawmakers approved a bigger increase—$2 billion— to fund medical research at the National Institutes of Health and for former Vice President Joseph Biden’s cancer “moonshot” than for Trump’s priority of enhanced border security.
Taxpayer money can still flow to Planned Parenthood, which primarily service poor and minority women, hardly a feature of the country club set.
Democrats also won increased funding for Pell Grants, clean energy initiatives, transportation infrastructure, and nearly $300 million in Medicaid money for Puerto Rico – all of which the White House wanted to cut, as well as funding to combat opioid addiction, $1.3 billion in long-term health-care funding for coal miners and their widows, and Obamacare subsidy payments to insurers on behalf of low-income citizens – hardly denizens of the country club set.
I only had 2 issues with Schumer and the jury is still out on both of them. Well, I guess one of them I can live with if there’s no particular flare up: his tendency to seek attention. The other is the question of how much AIPAC ass he’s going to kiss from his position of power.
I hope those issues of mine don’t satisfy the entrance requirements for the brigade you mentioned.
Chuck’s attention-seeking is good for his current position.
I’m more than tired of people assuming that Jewish elected officials are all in thrall to groups like AIPAC.
It’s more than a little bit troubling to hear such bullshit over and over again.
Schumer’s religion (or cultural heritage or whatever) or anyone’s means absolutely nothing to me. I respond to past tokens of support at times I was waiting for someone to resist AIPAC.
There is nothing inherently wrong in supporting Israel’s right to exist.
Are you an AIPAC supporter, then? That’s the sort of straw man defense they make. If you are against AIPAC then you are against Israel. I think you would make a bad minority leader too.
You seem to have a bad habit of making assumptions not based on fact.
Thanks for letting me know that your comments should be ignored.
He’s the Senate Minority Leader – we don’t need a shrinking violet.
And casting aspersions about the loyalty of Jewish American politicians is ugly.
@thunderclapnewman wrote my response to you just above (though, please delete the second sentence where he went a bit far).
What response to me would that be?
The one, just above yours in the thread?
Look, guys. I really did not like how Schumer sided with AIPAC and Bibi against Obama on the Iran treaty. It left a strong taste in my mouth. If that looks like antisemitism to you, then you are welcome to it.
No one but you brought it up.
I fear you protest too much.
I was not crazy about that either, but the Iran deal got through and is now water under the bridge. Even Trump’s State Dept. says Iran is in compliance.
Some things we just have to let go or else we get divided needlessly.
Err.
“I’m more than tired of people assuming that Jewish elected officials are all in thrall to groups like AIPAC. It’s more than a little bit troubling to hear such bullshit over and over again.”
I would consider someone doing what you described above as antisemitic. If you do not, and that was not your intent, then I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
“And casting aspersions about the loyalty of Jewish American politicians is ugly.”
This sounds like a “shoe fits” implication of antisemitism to me. If I’m wrong again, I apologize again.