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Chuck Schumer Is Unbelievably Bad at His Job
Chuck Schumer was probably expecting his job as top Democrat in the Senate to be a pretty easy gig. He had a clear path to the position throughout 2016 with Harry Reid’s imminent retirement, and pollsters were increasingly confident that Dems could flip the Senate in November, which would make him Majority Leader. All he’d have to do was grease the wheels of the neoliberal machine for President Hillary, talk about the inevitable Republican obstruction on cable news, and maybe ease back on some pesky banking regulations now that the financial collapse of 2008 was receding into the national rearview mirror. Team Clinton just needed to win a layup election against a senile carnival barking racist game show host (and alleged sex offender!) with zero political experience who was viscerally detested by a majority of the American public, and it would be smooth sailing from there.
Whoops!
Now, whether you want to blame Clinton’s loss on Democratic hubris, James Comey, Russian memes, economic anxiety, deplorable Republicans, or any combination of those factors, things didn’t quite work out the way Schumer and the rest of the Democratic Party planned. So, rather than being Senate point man for a White House which was supposed to belong to the Dems in perpetuity
all of a sudden Chuck was thrust into the unenviable position as the last line of defense between whatever remained of the American postwar liberal order and a new generation of iron-fisted conservative rule over all of the country’s most sacred institutions.
It has…not been great.
The latest 12-D chess move that has enraged progressives in the Democratic party came on Tuesday as Schumer, ever the brilliant strategist, cunningly tricked the Republican Party into allowing a few Democrats to head back to their home states to campaign, giving up a few hundred pages of documents about Supreme Court nominee Bret Kavanaugh’s time as a White House Clerk, and maybe, possibly agreeing to rename a building in the Senate after recently deceased Senator John McCain. All at the cost of a measly seven lifetime district court appointments for Federalist Society mutants who will be reshaping American society for decades to come! Checkmate, Drumpf
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Chuck Schumer Is Unbelievably Bad at His Job
Chuck Schumer was probably expecting his job as top Democrat in the Senate to be a pretty easy gig. He had a clear path to the position throughout 2016 with Harry Reid’s imminent retirement, and pollsters were increasingly confident that Dems could flip the Senate in November, which would make him Majority Leader. All he’d have to do was grease the wheels of the neoliberal machine for President Hillary, talk about the inevitable Republican obstruction on cable news, and maybe ease back on some pesky banking regulations now that the financial collapse of 2008 was receding into the national rearview mirror. Team Clinton just needed to win a layup election against a senile carnival barking racist game show host (and alleged sex offender!) with zero political experience who was viscerally detested by a majority of the American public, and it would be smooth sailing from there.
Whoops!
Now, whether you want to blame Clinton’s loss on Democratic hubris, James Comey, Russian memes, economic anxiety, deplorable Republicans, or any combination of those factors, things didn’t quite work out the way Schumer and the rest of the Democratic Party planned. So, rather than being Senate point man for a White House which was supposed to belong to the Dems in perpetuity
all of a sudden Chuck was thrust into the unenviable position as the last line of defense between whatever remained of the American postwar liberal order and a new generation of iron-fisted conservative rule over all of the country’s most sacred institutions.
It has…not been great.
The latest 12-D chess move that has enraged progressives in the Democratic party came on Tuesday as Schumer, ever the brilliant strategist, cunningly tricked the Republican Party into allowing a few Democrats to head back to their home states to campaign, giving up a few hundred pages of documents about Supreme Court nominee Bret Kavanaugh’s time as a White House Clerk, and maybe, possibly agreeing to rename a building in the Senate after recently deceased Senator John McCain. All at the cost of a measly seven lifetime district court appointments for Federalist Society mutants who will be reshaping American society for decades to come! Checkmate, Drumpf
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Chuck Schumer Is Unbelievably Bad at His Job
