So does get Schumer get a Pass Now

He introduced the Senate Bill to release the Epstein files, after orangeman did not want it, Mike Johnson did not want it, thune did not want it. Obviously he knew he had broken their back when Orangeturd reversed the day before.. Thune was not even on the floor he was so damn embarrassed
 
Schumer is well-versed in the operations of the Senate and is a good Majority Leader.

He has been in DC for almost 45 years, he's become so much a part of the established government order that he has no idea how to be even a decent Minority Leader.

Yeah, he can outmaneuver folks on a procedural basis once in a while as head of the minority party, but he overall isn't really ready to attack the way a good Minority Leader should do.

So, no, he doesn't get a pass for doing one good small thing while largely failing at his current position.
 
You know I get it stuff doesn't work like this-but tommorow he should step down and let the Dem Senate get someone in place for the 2026 race-for ACA subsidies
 
According to Lawrence O'Donnell (well versed in Senate procedures from his time on Moynihan's staff), Schumer didn't outmaneuver anyone. Thune was MIA by choice. I think the play here is for Pam Bondi to block the release.

"From 1989 to 1995, O'Donnell was a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[5] He served as senior adviser to Moynihan from 1989 to 1991, then as staff director of two senate committees that Moynihan was chairing: Environment and Public Works from 1992 to 1993, and Finance from 1993 to 1995.[10]"
 
GeeWhy said:
According to Lawrence O'Donnell (well versed in Senate procedures from his time on Moynihan's staff), Schumer didn't outmaneuver anyone. Thune was MIA by choice. I think the play here is for Pam Bondi to block the release.

"From 1989 to 1995, O'Donnell was a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[5] He served as senior adviser to Moynihan from 1989 to 1991, then as staff director of two senate committees that Moynihan was chairing: Environment and Public Works from 1992 to 1993, and Finance from 1993 to 1995.[10]"
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Oh thune was MIA by choice-which is funny because he leads the Senate
 
GeeWhy said:
According to Lawrence O'Donnell (well versed in Senate procedures from his time on Moynihan's staff), Schumer didn't outmaneuver anyone. Thune was MIA by choice. I think the play here is for Pam Bondi to block the release.

"From 1989 to 1995, O'Donnell was a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[5] He served as senior adviser to Moynihan from 1989 to 1991, then as staff director of two senate committees that Moynihan was chairing: Environment and Public Works from 1992 to 1993, and Finance from 1993 to 1995.[10]"
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I remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan as someone who would get hip- or shoulder-deep into legislation details.

I don’t remember him as being a senator who excelled in or relished knowing and using the arcane Senate rules.

He might have been such a Senator. I don’t remember him as a parliamentary power.
 
This confuses me. Maybe I don't know the entire story. Is Unanimous Consent the arcane rule to which you refer? Because I am familiar with it. And I know next to nothing of Senate rules. Just what did Schumer do? He signaled he was going to call for unanimous consent hours before he actually did it. There was no surprise attack here. I have not made a deep dive into what exactly Schumer did. I do know he forced a previous vote where only Hawley and Rand Paul voted to release the files. It seems to me the bulk of the work was done on the House side despite Mike Johnson's malarkey.

FTR, O'Donnell was not criticizing Schumer. He was ridiculing Mike Johnson and his claims that Thune and company would amend the bill in the Senate. In fact, O'Donnell was one of the few who did not criticize the Senators that broke off on the CR. He defended them and Schumer as Minority Leader, in particular.
 
Oh I will acknowledge that Schumer maybe luckily fell into this vote .. nonetheless it broke the Epstein impass and highlighted orangeturd doing a 180 on a matter that people were all excted about
 
mpaer said:
Is that you Jeff Jackson
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Not only Jeff Jackson but now Graham Platner in Maine.

Latest poll has Platner beating the very concerned and troubled Susan Collins by 4 points
But Chuck has endorsed and is pushing Mills who is trailing Collins by 4 points:(
 
SnoopRob said:
Schumer is well-versed in the operations of the Senate and is a good Majority Leader.

He has been in DC for almost 45 years, he's become so much a part of the established government order that he has no idea how to be even a decent Minority Leader.

Yeah, he can outmaneuver folks on a procedural basis once in a while as head of the minority party, but he overall isn't really ready to attack the way a good Minority Leader should do.

So, no, he doesn't get a pass for doing one good small thing while largely failing at his current position.
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Agreed. I've never made it a secret that I'm not a Schumer fan. McConnell used to run rings around him in his prime, and imo Schumer simply isn't up to this moment in history. As Snoop said, he's been in DC so long that he's lost touch with what's happening beyond the beltway and he's so wedded to the status quo within the Democratic Party that he'll likely never accept the generational change that is past due within the party. Frankly, I hope that AOC primaries him in 2028 and beats him (I think she would, and by a comfortable margin, just as Mamdani beat Cuomo).
 
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