"Robby Soave and Marianne Williamson react to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) media interviews explaining why he supported the recent Republican funding bill."
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| Source:The Hill talking about U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat, New York) |
From The Hill
"Schumer responds to Democrats questioning his leadership after backing a Republican spending bill. He also discusses the relevance of his new book, "Antisemitism in America: A Warning."
From The View
The View panelist Sunny Hostin to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:
“It gives me no pleasure to say this to you, because we are friends, but I think you caved,” Hostin said pointedly. “I think you and nine other Democrats caved. I don’t think you showed the fight that this party needs right now, because you’re playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away.”
So, in my view, what you did really was, in supporting that GOP partisan bill the Democrats had no input in, you cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security,” she said. “To gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid. Why did you lead Democratic senators to play by that book that the Republicans are not playing by."
Leader Schumer responding to Sunny Hostin:
“First I’d say, Sunny, no one wants to fight more than me, and no one fights more than me. We got to fight smart. It is not true — that bill had far less — it was bad, I hated it,” Schumer said. “But it does far less damage to — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are far more susceptible to being eliminated, which is what that horrible Musk — can you imagine this guy Musk, a billionaire, saying $1,100 for a senior citizen is not necessary? Or a Ponzi scheme?”
If you have two choices, one bad, the other devastating; one chops off one of your fingers, the other chops off your arm? So I want to fight, and we are fighting, we’re going to fight every day,” he explained."
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| Source:The View talking to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat, New York) |
From The View
The New Democrat has been very clear on Chuck Schumer's decision here:
"Any shutdown must end eventually. But in the aftermath, Trump and his bureaucratic goon Elon Musk could tell vast numbers of employees that they needn’t return to work, accelerating their plans to hollow out the federal government and embed MAGA loyalists in what remains of the civil service. In fact, WIRED reports, based on anonymous Republican sources, “that Musk has wanted a government shutdown … in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, essentially achieving a permanent shutdown.” During shutdowns, employees deemed “nonessential” stay home. Musk, who has said anyone nonessential shouldn’t be in government, could use a shutdown to take advantage of any nonessential classifications.
The resist-everything-everywhere-all-at-once argument theoretically compels Democrats to filibuster so that their fingerprints aren’t on any legislation that abets the Trump-Musk plan. But a shutdown can abet it, too. Moreover, a shutdown would trigger a blame-game dynamic in which Republicans can shift blame from Musk’s rampage to Democrats for the increased dysfunction. No matter what Democrats do, they risk public ire...
If Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made a mistake last week on this, it was indicating on Wednesday that he would try to block the bill until there was some bipartisan funding agreement that could be reached between Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans. But as I said about last Wednesday...
From The New Democrat
"I'm with James Carville on this:
When you see your arch-enemy is drowning in the ocean. don't throw them a lifeline. Let them drown.
When you see your arch enemy's house is on fire and no one is there to do anything about it, don't even offer to spit on the fire, let alone dump your own water on it, or call 911. Just let the house burn down.
Right now, Republicans control The White House and both chambers of Congress, not just the House and White House. They have everything, including the Senate and Supreme Court. They are in complete charge and completely responsible for the nation's welfare as far as what passes and what doesn't...
From The New Democrat
"Democratic strategist James Carville called on Democrats to make a "strategic political retreat" in a guest essay for The New York Times on Tuesday, telling members of his party "to play dead."
"Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight, and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular. Until then, I’m calling for a strategic political retreat," he wrote.
"With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead," the strategist continued.
"Carville compared his suggestion to a "tactical pause," and argued the Democrats needed to stop regularly playing defense against the Trump administration's actions.
"It’s a vision move — get out of the hour-to-hour, day-to-day combat where one side (ours) is largely playing defense and struggling to defend politically charged positions (like explaining D.E.I. or persuading voters to care about foreign aid), and take time to regroup, look forward and make decisions about where we want to get to over the next two years," Carville said.
He said Americans were likely not waiting around for lawmakers and commentators to make the same old arguments to criticize the president.
"They’re tired of it, and our Democratic voters are tired of watching us moan and groan to cover up our impotency out of power. They want us to be smarter than that," he added."
From The New Democrat
"Sen. Schumer tells 'The View' a government shutdown would have given the Trump administration the freedom to slash programs it views as nonessential, with little to no recourse for Democrats to pursue."
From The View
"I knew it was a difficult choice, and I knew I'd get a lot of criticism or my choice, but I felt as a leader I had to do it," Schumer told “The View” hosts.
I hate" the funding bill because it creates a "slush fund" for President Donald Trump, his adviser Elon Musk and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought to "push around."
But a shutdown, Schumer said "would have devastation like we have never seen.”
It would have given the Trump administration the freedom to slash programs it views as nonessential, with little to no recourse for Democrats to pursue. Programs like Medicaid and SNAP or funding for mass transit could have been indiscriminately slashed, he said.
"You have two choices: one bad, the other devastating," Schumer said. "One chops off one of your fingers, the other chops off your arm.”
He said he was being "trolled" by Trump when the president congratulated him for passage of the bill on Trump’s Truth Social platform."
From Yahoo News
You can talk about Sunny Hostin's response all you want:
“It gives me no pleasure to say this to you, because we are friends, but I think you caved,” Hostin said pointedly. “I think you and nine other Democrats caved. I don’t think you showed the fight that this party needs right now, because you’re playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away.”
So, in my view, what you did really was, in supporting that GOP partisan bill the Democrats had no input in, you cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security,” she said. “To gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid. Why did you lead Democratic senators to play by that book that the Republicans are not playing by. "
But no one on The View had a response for why Leader Schumer did what he did and his reasoning for it. Why? Because they know he's right. You really want The White House, especially OMB and Elon Musk to get to decide which Federal programs are shut down and which aren't? The answer to that should be: "Oh hell no!" Or, feel free to use your own imagination.
I hate to break it to the far-left in America, but the U.S. Government is not the administration building at Columbia University, or any other preppy, Northeastern, elitist, university. You can't just shut it down and then go home, or go back to your dorm and wait for someone else to clean up your mess for you.
And if you shut down the government... sure, you can claim to be "badasses" and the coolest people on campus. But then what? The mainstream media and MAGA can't blame the Democrats for a government shutdown this week? Why? Because there isn't 1.
So what does the far-left do instead? They attack the Democratic leadership for not shutting down the government and call Chuck Schumer to be replaced, because he wouldn't shut down the government. And then they wonder why they're never in charge of anything serious and important, at least in Washington. But I've never wondered that.
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