WTF!!! Hillary Thinks Chuck Schumer Would Be A Good Senate Majority Leader?

[eniwetok]

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Just watching Hillary on the Rachel Maddow show... and Hillary suggested that Chuck Schumer would be a great majority leader in the Senate? Chuck is a Wall St wh**e... the person who scuttled abolishing the carried interest reform to the tax code.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/washington/30schumer.html

Sorry Hillary... NO THANKS!!!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

1. Is this news?

You do realize he is the likely replacement for Reid, right? And has been for awhile.....

[eniwetok]

9. I'm just thinking...

I'm aware of that possibility. What I'm thinking is since Hillary is a Wall St... wh**e.... OF COURSE she'd want another one to head the Senate.

Too many liberal Dems tend to whitewash the likes of Hillary and Chuckie because they are social liberals and want to sweep their Wall St connections under the rug.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. I'm no fan of Senator Press Release

But it would be stupid and pointless of any politician to say someone will suck as Senate Leader for the party when they are a virtual lock.

[SheenaR]

35. Fellow Ocean Stater

How's about our new logo lol.

[Pauldg47]

28. All the uninformed dumb fucks out there don't know who the hell chucky is, so what's the difference?

[Gman]

33. Are you speaking of yourself

When you say dumbfuck? You clearly don't know much about him.

[onecaliberal]

2. That's the kind of president she would be.

[eniwetok]

18. that is what I'm afraid of....

I can hope Hillary will reject the moral bankruptcy in being cozy with free-trade and Wall St. But I'm not counting on it.

[pacalo]

3. NY primary coming up -- she needs his help.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Hillary - Third Way all the way

[geek tragedy]

5. um, Schumer is running unopposed for Senate leader, and he's from the same state as her. nt

[LiberalElite]

8. If she's from New York, I'm from Mesopotamia

He's a superdelegate in her back pocket and unfortunately one of my senators.

[dchill]

11. She's from Scrancago Rock, Pennsillnoisansas.

[JonLeibowitz]

12. I agree with the sentiment, but you have the Mesopotamia joke backwards ;)

Unless you actually live in the ME, in which case.... good luck?

[LiberalElite]

13. I was exaggerating for effect

[leftofcool]

6. Oh please. This has been in the works for years!

[LuvLoogie]

7. Hillary doesn't choose the congressional leadership.

[jaysunb]

10. +1 n/t

[eniwetok]

20. RED HERRING ALERT!!

Who ever suggested she did?

What I see as the issue here is Hillary doesn't object to the idea of Schumer becoming Senate majority leader but seems to desire it.

[LuvLoogie]

25. Hillary doesn't get to object to Schumer. She isn't in the Senate. Bernie is,

and he will express his support for Schumer. Bernie will likely vote for Chuck.

Edit to add: Bernie would need Chuck to help turn Bernie's mantra into passable legislation.

Other wise, The Revolution should have primaried Chuck. A little late for that one.

[NYC Liberal]

15. Let's let Bernie Sanders be Majority Leader.

Maybe it can be his consolation prize when he loses the nomination.

[tomm2thumbs]

16. or Secretary of State

keep those consolation prizes consistent

[NYC Liberal]

17. Nah, SoS requires a lot more actual work.

[Hydra]

22. Ya, PNAC marked locations don't destroy themselves without a lot of work n/t

[pnwmom]

23. Senate Majority Leader requires a huge amount of work

but scolding and finger wagging aren't part of the job.

[pnwmom]

19. Since he has almost no influence in the Senate that doesn't seem wise. n/t

[bullwinkle428]

21. If Hillary wins the Presidency, and the Democrats retake the Senate,

Bernie is going to become the freaking Mack Daddy of the Senate, regardless of title!

[Nyan]

24. Of course she does.

He opposed ACA and Iran deal. A neo-con and neo-liberal. What more could you possibly want? He's a perfect fit for the kind of presidency she wants.

[hrmjustin]

26. Where does Sanders stand on Schumer?

[eniwetok]

31. who knows...

But I suspect Bernie held his nose when he decided to run as a Dem. It's one thing to be proud of FDR's Democratic Party... not Bill Clinton's.

Parties often change positions... even stealing issue from each other. There's just not the ideological purity in a two party system we might expect in a true multiparty system. Reagan gave up on fiscal discipline in favor of Starve The Beast. Clinton stole free trade, welfare reform, law and order, and deregulation from the GOP... but gets the Dems out of the fiscal GOP straight jacket only to have the GOP try to sabotage the Clinton Surplus. Obama embraced most of Bush's irresponsible tax cuts... and refuses to prosecute Wall Street... and on and on it goes.

[hrmjustin]

34. Well I voted for schumer and I will again.

[tritsofme]

27. Well...looks like we've stumbled into the Berner's new movement: Make Bernie Majority Leader

This would be an even more quixotic quest than the current one.

[Gman]

29. Schumer will be a great majority leader

I'm looking forward to it.

You must not be very familiar with him.

[Hulk]

30. Corporatist.....nothing more

If you liked how Bill worked with the repuKKKes to bring us NAFTA and Newts New Contract with America, you'll love Hillary. To expect anything different is naive.

Black Lives Matters, $15 minimum wage, college free tuition, proson and police reform, asking the 1% to pay a dime more intaxes are ALL lip service. She couldn't care less.

Hillary is better than any of the clowns and assholes on the idiot side, but she is a second choice when all corporate America will let us have....she'll do.

[sharp_stick]

32. Oh God, The Horror

The manufactured outrage infesting this place would be comical if it was just a little less pathetic.

You should work on that.

[EndElectoral]

36. A bit of a relief - I figured Kissinger - SOS and Schumer - Sec of Treasury

[azurnoir]

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