I’ve given up hope someone will seriously challenge Schumer, but we are going to learn quickly upon his ascendance how good of a leader Harry Reid was:
Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid gave a forceful endorsement Sunday to the nuclear deal with Iran, a key boost that provides continued momentum for preventing Congress from blocking President Obama’s pact.
The Nevada Democrat said the deal, which lifts economic sanctions against the rogue nation for pledges to limit its nuclear program, is the “best way” to curtail Iran’s military ambitions, and he pledged to round up more support to thwart its opponents.
“I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure the deal stands,” he said in a telephone interview with The Washington Post from his home in Henderson, Nev., where he has been calling friends to tell them of his decision.
The retiring Democratic leader becomes the 27th Senate Democrat to publicly endorse the plan, while just two — including Reid’s friend and likely successor, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) — have come out against it.
It would be nice if “everything in his power” was to include derailing Schumer’s campaign to replace him.
Baud
No, no, no. Reid and Pelosi are both awful. Doesn’t anyone remember blogs circa 2008-10?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Nope, drunk as a skunk the whole time.
Howard Beale IV
It’s a done deal, then. This will be Reid’s legacy to put that schmuck in his place.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Does this mean Bibi will shut up? (I kid…)
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The right move.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: My liver does not concur.
BillinGlendaleCA
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): You funny.
Chris
Nobody who crossed a Democratic president on something this big should ever be allowed to have Reid’s job.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Chris: Word.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Why isn’t Durbin running to take Reid’s spot? He’s the whip. He ranks ahead of Schumer, right? Has Schumer leapfrogged him?
dww44
@Chris: IMO, which comes first with Schumer? Your country or your ethnic allegiance? For him and everyone else it should be the former. His decision also renders him undeserving of the top Senate leadership position for his party.
Mike in NC
What does AIPAC pay out to buy a U.S. Senator?
Josie
We will need to watch and listen carefully to Reid in order to find out how this plays out. I expect he already knows how it will be handled. I hope it involves Schumer’s head on a pike (metaphorically speaking, of course).
Joel
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Durbin is 70 — six years older than Schumer.
Gimlet
Schumer controls the spice… er, money.
Suzanne
@Chris: Truth. Chuck Schumer is a dickhead. I would much prefer to put his cousin in office.
BobS
@dww44: Scroll ahead to the 49:20 mark to hear Schumer answer your question: Schumer at AIPAC
VidaLoca
@efgoldman:
Uh-huh. The people who will be voting on this are the Democratic members of the US Senate. They do what they do for their own reasons, in which the opinions of the likes of us matter little.
rikyrah
hmmmmmmm
………………
WHAT YOUNG FEMINISTS THINK OF HILLARY CLINTON
It’s not quite what you’d expect.
BY MOLLY MIRHASHEM
Feminism came to mean something very different from girl power. And Hillary Clinton came to look like the symbol of an older generation of women more concerned with female empowerment—in particular, with white, middle-class, American female empowerment—than with broader issues of social and economic justice. Svokos says she’ll vote for Clinton in 2016, but she’s not expecting her to make social justice and inequality true priorities if she makes it to the White House. “I find her lacking, in that I realize she’s not likely to push for the kind of change I’d like to see,” Svokos says. “At the same time, though, I believe she knows how to manage politics and will be more than capable in the position.”
Among feminists of her generation, Svokos is hardly alone in her lukewarm feelings about Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. I recently interviewed 47 young women, most in their early to mid-20s, who call themselves feminists; they talked about what feminism means to them and shared their thoughts about Clinton’s candidacy and public image. While the overwhelming majority of these women said they would likely vote for her in 2016, only about a quarter of them were enthusiastic or emphatic in their support. Jennifer Schaffer, a 22-year-old weekend editor at Vice, summed up a common sentiment among these women: “I’m glad we have a female presidential candidate,” she told me, “but it’s incredibly difficult to get excited about something that should have happened decades ago.” A vote for Clinton, many said, would be a vote by default, because no other viable progressive alternatives—female or male—are in the offing.
While it’s not exactly news that Clinton is a less-than-ideal candidate for many on the Left, the critique of her from those on the vanguard of contemporary feminism is more surprising—and potentially problematic for her presidential effort. To win in 2016, Clinton doesn’t just need half-hearted support from young women; she needs them to be a base of her grassroots efforts, as fired up as young people were for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. But even as more and more young women are embracing the “feminist” label—with pop-culture icons like Beyoncé making it central to their public personas—the feminism that Clinton represents seems increasingly outmoded. While her campaign banks on young feminists like Svokos and Schaffer being “Ready for Hillary,” these women say they’re ready for more.
………………………………….
AT THE ANNUAL Women in the World Summit in New York this April, Sam Viqueira stuck out from the crowd. The summit, a high-powered gathering of leaders and activists launched by former New Yorker and Daily Beast editor Tina Brown in 2010, this year featured a keynote address by Hillary Clinton. Most of the women in attendance looked like Clinton’s crowd, her generation: Dressed business casual, the mostly middle-aged women flocked to the free coffee and Luna bars on offer, chatted in small groups, and snapped selfies in front of a Dove-sponsored backdrop. The 17-year-old Viqueira and her high school friend stood off to the side in a small lounge, looking like they were dressed for a regular day of school. They’d taken the train in from Maplewood, New Jersey. “To me, feminism isn’t only about wanting equality for all genders,” Viqueira told me later, “but wanting and advocating for the equality of all oppressed groups, which can and do intersect.”
nationaljournal.com/magazine/2016-hillary-clinton-feminists-20150515
Tree With Water
@Chris: Damn straight. The key is Elizabeth Warren. She should have withdrawn her support when Shumer declared against the Iran nuclear deal two weeks ago, and she still should. Schumer has- once again- sided with the same bad crowd that plotted the 2003 Iraq War. If senate democrats indeed choose his sorry, parochial ass to replace Reid, they will have made a mockery of pretending to represent the best interests of the democratic party’s rank and file.. or the peoples of the planet, for that matter.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tree With Water:
SHE SOLD US OUT!!!!
Eric S.
@BillinGlendaleCA: I still am. Different reasons now.
Calouste
The three Americans and the one Brit who subdued the gunman on the train in France are going to be awarded the Legion d’Honeur by the French President tomorrow.
Suzanne
@rikyrah: Is this news? I mean, everybody seems to feel the same way about Hillz: she’s acceptable but not amazing.
We can do a lot worse than that.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Eric S.: The blog wars had little to do with it.
Tree With Water
The left tackle of the Cleveland Browns articulates what’s been bothering me about the NFL in 2015 (posted at Deadspin.com).
“..But [the commissioner’s power] was probably an oversight by the players because they didn’t expect him to act so unreasonably because his predecessor did not act unreasonably,” Thomas said. “But I think we’re talking about a different NFL now. Like I said, before it was more about the game. Now it’s such an entertainment business. It’s almost like the Kim Kardashian factor that any news is good news when you’re in the NFL…”
Eric S.
@rikyrah: I saw my first Hillary bumper sticker today. Strangely, it was not in deep blue Chicago but blazing fire engine red DuPage County.
To stereotype the age and condition of the car the two women were driving the driver may have learned to vote her economic interest.
rikyrah
zizi has a new post up at TOD:
theobamadiary.com/2015/08/23/trump-perverts-obama-campaign-style/
Tommy
@Eric S.: Fun. I am from IL and last I checked she is from Illinois. Not seen a bumper sticker for her yet.
Chris
@rikyrah:
I actually totally buy that – that Trump decided to run simply because he was furious at being embarrassed like that.
Eric S.
@Tommy: I gathered you were a fellow Illinoisan from a thread earlier this week. Champaign area I gather. I went to school up I74 a piece at ISU.
Hillary (or whoever is the D nominee) is closer to assured to win Illinois. My bigger concern is boring Kirk from the Senate. He should go down in flames but I’m a worrier.
gogol's wife
@Chris:
It’s the best analysis I’ve seen. (Although I haven’t been reading too much Trump analysis, be it said.)
BBA
@Mike in NC: There is no doubt in my mind that Schumer is sincere. He’s old and Jewish, and like many old Jews has a giant blind spot around Israel, as I’ve learned from sitting through far too many of my mother’s synagogue luncheons.
mai naem mobile
Reid will go down as being a pretty good leader. He did a good job given what he had to work with. Us keyboarders can bitch about how Obama and Reid wasted time in 09-10 but what the GOP did was unprecedented. Even Lieberdick was a way bigger prick than what one would have expected. I really don’t like a NY Sen bring the leader because they’re in bed with Wall Street and the bankstas. I would much rather have Durbin or Murray.
Doug R
@rikyrah: Nice concern trolling
Tree With Water
@efgoldman: “Sold out”? Fair enough. If she supports Schumer now, that will be how I look at her. No doubt about it. The party has to stand for something, or it stands for nothing. This treaty is the first good new to come out of the mideast since Schumer enthusiastically backed the Bush-Cheney War. No third strike for him. He’s struck twice now at the vital interests of the American people. He is unfit to lead.
Tommy
@Eric S.: Oh I am downstate. Way south. Kirk is troubling to say the least. It is my take most folks think of Illinois as a liberal state. I tend to think we can elect good looking white dudes that are rich. Our governor. Kirk. Something we tend to do.
Bruce Webb
@rikyrah: Well the key phrase is kind of buried, and is the reason I am taking a breath for the first time:
” because no other viable progressive alternatives—female or male—are in the offing.”
Rubio and Walker had some superficial appeal to low information voters as being somehow “moderate” but their embrace of “no exceptions” on abortion just blew their chances for more than a small fraction of the women’s vote. Meanwhile everyone else in the Republican field seems hell bent on driving down Latino turnout for R’s into the single digits.
The electoral math was always against the R’s, they needed to pretty much run the string of swing states. And you don’t do that by trashing your appeal among suburban women (who if not all abortion advocates likely have friends that had one, and wouldn’t have chosen for that friend to die instead) and/or Latinos.
Hillary must be counting her luck here, e-mail server aside there has been so much room opened between her and the nearest R to the center (which isn’t near at all) that she barely needs to make a deep policy appeal to the left. As a progressive I am not going to be thrilled with an electoral message of “Vote for me! I am a woman and not a racial troglodyte!” but God Help Me at this point that may actually be enough to get the female, Latino and black vote. Which is enough that she can risk having bitter white male lefties like me grumbling in our craft beers and vapes. Where we gonna go?
Roger Moore
@Suzanne:
I think there are a lot of older women who are excited about Hillary as a symbol, even if they aren’t necessarily excited about her policies.
Tommy
@BBA:
I am not a jew. I want to comment on the state of affairs but don’t because but I don’t see how it will help any. Such a charged topic.
mai naem mobile
@Eric S.: I’ve seen a few HIllary stickers in the Phoenix area and one in Mesa – a heavy Mormon Phoenix suburb. I’ve also seen three Ben Carson stickers. I figure the GOP thinks Obama won because he’s black so therefore Neurosurgeon black guy Ben Carson can also win the presidency,never mind that he sounds like a maroon.
Full metal Wingnut
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): All I know is, you don’t fuck with an Illinois politician…
Yeah, Durbin is all around a better Senator. Schumer is better at fundraising though.
MomSense
I’m just so sick of people like Schumer in the Iran deal or any Republican on any and every issue getting away with horseshit explanations for their votes.
Every single argument Schumer has made against the Iran deal is, in the style of Click and Clack, boohohohgus.
Chuck Todd gave the game away when he said that it wasn’t the job of journalists to “sell” ObamaCare as if correcting falsehoods or providing accurate information were just marketing.
You will never see Schumer have to defend his BS position on the Iran deal to an expert or a journalist who has done her/his homework. I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised as we have been inundated with bogus talking points for decades now.
This is no way to run a superpower
BobS
@Tommy: You could always share one of your terrific road trip stories instead.
Jordan Rules
@Chris: Me too and yet it hadn’t occurred to me before. Makes total sense.
Tommy
@MomSense: There is a story I tell. When I moved to DC this lady kind of took me in when I didn’t know anybody. Her husband worked at the State department. He was one of the hostages in Iran. I still talk with them some and he isn’t remotely mad at them
Misterpuff
@rikyrah: Thanks Obama.
redshirt
Any Dem who votes against this should be kicked out of any organizing body they are a part of to date. We need new Dem blood.
BBA
@efgoldman: Keep that up and you’ll never get invited to the Presidents’ Conference.
bystander
I wouldn’t care with whom Schumer is in bed. He sucks. He’s a terrible senator. Plain and simple. I’m still holding out hope for Gilibrand’s term.
I enjoy hoping that Obama’s public and hilarious humiliation of Trump led to the 3 ring circus that’s unfolding.
raven
Here’s a rainbow we got tonight.
Feathers
@rikyrah: I think the youngs are doing just fine, but admit their “I’m not going to praise any good developments because that shit should have been done long ago” is wearing me down. To use their terminology – that’s just giving themselves a cookie for having been born after the Reagan administration. Says someone who remembers the Nixon administration. Sigh.
Edited for typo & Sigh.
Eric S.
@Tommy: we tally about the shallow Den bench. I see that on Illinois too. I don’t know who we put up. I know Tammy Duckworth is running and I can and will support her. But if it wasn’t her, who?
redshirt
@efgoldman: We need new Dem Senators and Congress people. We need new ideas in America.
Debbie
@efgoldman:
I’d tell him not to be a putz.
redshirt
@efgoldman: I could probably run for Senator in Maine if I had a few achievements in hand first. Like being voted “Best Accent”, and so on.
Trentrunner
Imagine if Obama had aligned himself with black interests as often and as deeply as Schumer aligns himself with these Zionist hoodlums.
Disgusting. Un-American.
redshirt
Could the citizens of 20 Progressive states form a bloc that would stymie the worst of the Confederates?
JPL
@Trentrunner: I do think for Schumer, it’s all about the money.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: How do you suggest that would function?
rikyrah
same old. THIS IS THE HISTORY OF AMERICA.
…………………
ST. PAUL MAP SHOWS HOW I-94 CUT THROUGH HEART OF CITY’S AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD
BY AARON RUPAR
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014
Yesterday, we told you about the map cartographer Geoff Maas put together showing howMinneapolis’s interstate highways cut through what were (and to a large extent still are) some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Maas recently gave St. Paul the same treatment. As you’d probably expect, the same conclusions hold true, though the severing of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood provides perhaps the starkest example of how interstates disproportionately affected poor (and often minority) Twin Cities communities
……………………..
In the 1930s, Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. Paul’s largest African American neighborhood that was displaced in the 1960s by freeway construction. African Americans whose families had lived in Minnesota for decades and others who were just arriving from the South made up a vibrant, vital community that was in many ways independent of the white society around it. The construction of I-94 shattered this tight-knit community, displaced thousands of African Americans into a racially segregated city and a discriminatory housing market, and erased a now-legendary neighborhood. While the construction of I-94 radically changed the landscape of the neighborhood, the community of Rondo still exists and its persistence and growth are celebrated through events like Rondo Days and the Jazz Festival.
citypages.com/news/st-paul-map-shows-how-i-94-cut-through-heart-of-citys-african-american-neighborho…
rikyrah
Reid kept away a lot of the crazy. He was a good leader.
Bill Arnold
@BBA:
The Iran deal is much better for Israel’s safety than any of the likely (or even unlikely but possible) alternatives.
C. Schumer’s right wing Jewish friends, driven to irrationality by dislike of B. Obama, and bigotry toward, and some arguably justified hatred of Iran (arms and support for proxy armies, anti-Israel rhetoric, links to terrorism and maybe direct involvement in the past, etc), are trying to increase the likelihood that Israel and then the rest of the Middle East dies in nuclear fire. (Maybe not in that order.) He can still switch his vote, or abstain.
I’ve read that he’s been carrying around a tattered copy of the agreement. Good. He needs to consult with some of the arms control experts who approve of the agreement, if he hasn’t already, who can walk through all the anti-deal analysis and talking points.
Cervantes
@Trentrunner:
Zionism is overtly an ideology so it’s clear what you mean there.
But what are “black interests”?
How do you know?
And which of them do you (not) share?
Betty
@Calouste: And still little to no coverage of the mysterious 4th American.
seaboogie
Thank dog Reid is still there for this bit – sorry that he lost vision in one eye, but the Mormon former boxer looks totally badass in his shades as he does what is right.
JPL
@Betty: The first person who met the gunman was a professor with dual citizenship. I actually wrote about this. Today the Americans who held the gunman down, thanked him.
It’s not that mysterious if you use google.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: That’s terrific. Mr. Q is impressed with your photography skills.
OT: would your friend with the ISU English degree be willing to share any impressions of working with DFW there? If so, do you still have my email address?
raven
@Calouste:
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): His wife and I were chatting about it yesterday and she just said “he knew who he is” so I dunno if there is much else to it.
JPL
@raven: He’s a professor who was born in the states and now lives in France.
He was the first person who met the gunman.
Culture of Truth
anyone watching HBO ‘Show Me a Hero’? Not irrelevant to Schumer.
raven
@JPL: And he wants to keep it on the QT.
JPL
@raven: The mystery identity of the first heroic passenger to wrestle a weapon from the high-speed train gunman can be disclosed for the first time by The Telegraph, David Barrett writes.
Mark Moogalian, a 51-year-old professor at the Sorbonne, tackled Ayoub El-Khazzani during Friday’s bloody incident aboard an Amsterdam-Paris international service.
Mr Moogalian, who lives in Paris but is originally from Midlothian, Virginia, US, is the previously unnamed man who came to the aid of “Damien A”, 28, a French banker who confronted El-Khazzani.
The academic acted instinctively to protect his partner Isabella Risacher, who was also aboard the Thalys train.
Omnes Omnibus
Dear fucking god. Kristol is mentioning Alito as possible GOP presidential candidate. Link.
kindness
The ‘Inside Club’ of the Senate only seems to exist in the Democratic party’s side. On the Republican side there is a take no prisoners approach to keep them in line.
Maybe Democrats could learn a thing or two from their opponents?
beltane
@Omnes Omnibus: Brilliant. Alito steps down, his campaign goes nowhere, and Hillary gets to appoint his replacement. Bill Kristol is always the man with the plan.
MomSense
@Eric S.:
RE: shallow den bench
We could always go with the Republican plan and just lower our standards.
The Thin Black Duke
@Omnes Omnibus: Good. That’s telling you how desperate they are.
SoupCatcher
Definitely not in the same league as a Senatorial announcement, but good news nonetheless. California Representative Zoe Lofgren came off the fence Friday and announced her support for the deal.
I think she was the last holdout of the Bay Area Democratic Reps.
geg6
@The Thin Black Duke:
Zackly.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
This entire paragraph has me gasping and wheezing and weeping with uncontrolled mirth:
/boggle
Cervantes
@SiubhanDuinne:
If nothing else, Daniels would bring new meaning to the term “cuckservative.”
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
Jeebus! That’s like the Crazed Wingnut Hall of Fame there. Only missing Gohmert!
SiubhanDuinne
@beltane:
Oh, for a “like” button.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
And Steve King!
Cervantes
@Omnes Omnibus:
Here’s how we know The Onion submitted that article under his name:
RaflW
Schumer can suck raw eggs. I had minimal respect for the schlub before, but the Iran deal has fully soured me on Schumer. I think the crappy seniority system will most likely hold, so we’ll have that a-hole to look forward to for a number of years of mugging for the camera.
Culture of Truth
@Omnes Omnibus: Ummm… what?
Cervantes
@RaflW:
If seniority holds the day, Durbin will be Leader, not Schumer.
RaflW
@Tree With Water:
As was said upthread, the democrats in the Senate (for the most part, there are a few exceptions of course) don’t give a crap about Democratic rank and file. They are senators-for-life, most of them, and care about statewide races if the care at all. What can peone #4370943 do for Sen. ___? The answer is usually, vote once per 6 years in a $10 to $20 million Dem/Repub ‘contest. Oh, and kick in a hundred bucks of campaign cash, maybe…
Bah.
gene108
@efgoldman:
Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond were very powerful Senators. Both very racist. And Jesse was never “politically correct” in his statements.
The assholes in the Senate are the same, it is just the Republican leadership going all in on obstruction like never before that is different and since the voters have rewarded them in 2010, 2012 and 2014, there’s no reason to go back to doing business any other way.
RaflW
@Cervantes: Well, if Durbin wanted it (and that could be an interesting story as to why he doesn’t). But I don’t see a challenge from the later-elected ranks, do you?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: Please! Can he make it so? Please! It would be wonderful. So, of course out of the question.
Anoniminous
@SiubhanDuinne:
And this, boys and girls, is why we don’t smoke crack.
Mike in NC
Deeply disappointed that Pence hasn’t jumped into this race to the bottom.
Cervantes
@Anoniminous:
Alternatively, it’s why we do.
RaflW
@Omnes Omnibus: Thanks for the Sunday night humor. And really, Kristol never disappoints in the realm of ultra-wrongism, does he?
Cervantes
@RaflW:
About Durbin: can’t say.
About a challenge to Schumer: still early days, things can happen. But do I see right now a challenge arising as we speak? Sadly, no.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@RaflW: This USNews story from April gives lots of background. It sounds like Schumer has it locked up and that Durbin was only interested in staying Whip.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I did giggle a bit. Jim Jordan? He’s a meathead; I’ve met him.
SiubhanDuinne
@RaflW:
He never does. But this year’s Alaska cruise must have been crazier than usual — dare I say, even crazier than 2008? — and we all know what came of that!
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s all very well, but is he a “young but tested leader”?
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sounds good to me, but only if he’s willing to resign his seat on the Supreme Court to do it.
Cervantes
@SiubhanDuinne:
2007.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Kristol said it. What does that tell you? And he is six months older than me. I am not sure that young is correct.
Cervantes
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Not clear to me that he will have Schumer’s support when the time comes; and not yet clear to him, either, I’ll venture to say.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
And we thought the field was crowded enough already!
Jay C
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
I’m no inside-politics expert, of course (well. no more than any other BJ blog-commenter), but this tallies with most of what I’ve read about Good Old Chuck – my senior Senator, more’s the pity – Dick Durbin apparently really doesn’t want the Majority Leader spot, and Schumer does. So there we are. Even Lyndon Johnson at his damnedest (which could be pretty damn damned) couldn’t force Senators into party-leadership roles they didn’t want to play: things haven’t changed much in the 50+years since (though Harry Reid has been pretty good in the Dem Leadership IMO).
Still sucks, though:
Citizen Alan
@SiubhanDuinne:
I wish the fucking boat had sank.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Weren’t some of them in attendance when Obama was giving a SOTU address?
Suzanne
@Roger Moore: I’m 35, so im not sure if that counts as “older”, but I am definitely excited about Hillary as a symbol.
I have two daughters, and they are growing up in a world that still has some goddamn glass ceilings. It will be exciting when, FSM willing, they get to see those fade into history.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: 35? It depends if you are at a college bar or on Balloon Juice.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Dude, I am 51.
Thoughtful Today
In a perfectly Democratic world I’d get to vote for Elizabeth Warren to be Senate leader.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Today: Are you a Senator?
Mike E
@Omnes Omnibus: Doooood.
Me too! For another few weeks.
David Koch
@Mike in NC:
30 pieces of silver
TriassicSands
Unfortunately, that’s just not the way things are done in the Senate. There are any number of Democratic senators who would be better leaders than Schumer, some of them might even place America’s well-being ahead of Israel’s.
If some maverick were to challenge Schumer, we’d probably be shocked by all the senators who ought to support the upstart who would fall in line for Schumer.
Joel
@rikyrah: same with 279 and Allegheny Center (Pittsburgh).
Ian
@Feathers:
GET OFF MY LAWN!