How stupid is Sen. Charles Schumer?

Bottom line: there's no competing with slave labor. The other stuff is all window dressing.

yeah, Jewish kid from Brooklyn = old money grandkid of Yale Board member, Harvard grad from Brooklyn = son of CIA chief, first elected at 24 = first elected at 48, never lost an election = lost straight out the box, unseated incumbent to move up = lost to the VP by razor-thin margin and stole it in the courts, won last reelection by largest margin in history = won last reelection by smallest margin in history

That said, your first list sounded remarkably like George W.

uh, ALL OF THEM? When you don't have to pay your workforce anything, that cuts out a huge chunk of your overhead budget and you can undercut everyone else's prices accordingly. Chinese workers are paid basically nothing, forced to work in horrible conditions, with no legal rights or recourse, and a state that brutally oppresses them and farms out their labor to global corporations.

Like the Chinese government selling off all of the U.S. debt they have been buying up.

The more I read, I have come to believe that the best way to even up things with China is to leave it alone. China seems to have many structural problems with their economy, it is more likely that it will collapse or at least weaken upon its own internal failures than anything we do from the outside to even things up.

Anyway, the U.S. would do a lot better to worry about our own issues -- education and healthcare, for a start. And Schumer's record on both of those is pretty good.

I have no opinion on this matter! I am all for destroying our economy more anyway so either way I'm ok with this.

But what can we, as simple individuals, do to help in this grand scheme?

He's currently whoring to keep hedge-fund managers' $500 zillion a year earnings intact.

guh.

awesome when he's interrogating gonzales, dud pretty much the rest of the time

I'm inclined to cut him a little bit of slack, since after all, Wall Street is New York's biggest cash cow, and pretty much all senators are whores for their home-state industries, aren't they? On the other hand, it's not very inspiring to see him behave so predictably.

waht - http://gothamist.com/2007/08/30/secretary_schum.php

i suppose it would give him more camera time. i like how they went with the old school pic here - he looks a tiny bit like my Dad.

Let's not forget he did - and does - support the war in Iraq.

what a nonstory.

I think I prefer an old school neo-mafioso type like the Fonz to be the Street's waterboy than the Chuckster...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/14schumer.html?hp

To Christopher Cox, the Republican chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the need for action was obvious in the spring of 2006.

His agency, which would later be criticized for a 2004 ruling that let banks pile up debt, had grown deeply concerned about lack of oversight of the nation’s largest credit-rating agencies, like Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service.... After the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the agencies had agreed to meet voluntary standards.

But the S.E.C. concluded that those agreements were inadequate, so Mr. Cox urged Congress to give his agency oversight powers. “Without additional legislative authority, the S.E.C. will not be able to regulate in a thoroughgoing way,” he told the Senate banking committee at an April 2006 hearing.

The plan drew broad, bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. But executives at the credit-rating agencies soon began pressing Mr. Schumer and other allies in Congress to block the proposal or at least limit its reach, according to current and former employees.

“They knew Schumer would support them,” said one former Moody’s executive, who asked not to be named because he still works in the industry. “He was their go-to guy,” the executive said.

While the Manhattan-based agencies were not significant campaign donors to Mr. Schumer or the Senate campaign committee, their lobbyists and many of their clients were. ...

Mr. Schumer, has a surprising defender in Alfonse M. D’Amato, the onetime Republican senator he ousted.

“Don’t take someone to task simply because a group has supported him politically and now he supports legislation that helps them,” Mr. D’Amato said. “The question is, is the legislation good or bad? With Chuck, it is clear he tries to do what is best for the state and city as a whole.”

nice performance making Lindsey Graham sound like a progressive yesterday, you schmuck.

schumer's on ilx now? under what login?

Mr. Pay

"Senator Schumer said he had been unaware that the amendment ruled out money for museums and theaters."

pissing me offffffffffff

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/arts/16mone.html?_r=1

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/arkansas-gop-senate-candidate-apologizes-for-calling-schumer-that-jew.php

nothing to do w/ Chuck's stupidity tho

someone plz photoshop Schumer's head onto the opening sequence of "That GirlJew"

Dr Morbius the thread-title nazi

that nazi

Schumer is a putz. He lives about 4 blocks from where I'm sitting; I sneered at him on the sidewalk once.

Does he still?

such a disgusting fuckwad.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/senator-chuck-schumer-wants-to-strangle-gaza-residents-economically-as-collective-punishment/

I'd like to remind New Yorkers that this scumbag wants to keep the Bush tax cuts for $250 G+ earners. That's your possible Senate leader. Vote Green.

poised to become majority leader, according to the NYT.

I read that article more as 'attempting to become' than 'poisted to become'

yeah, i'd say that's more accurate.

this fucking whore leads the surrender

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/129063-schumer-suggest-tax-compromise-no-cuts-over-1-million

"That is what the caucus instructed me to use."

he makes Lieberman look like the king of spontaneity

For all their talk of how important they are to the US (generated mostly by the residents of these particular states), the states of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York have some some pretty lousy congressional delegations.

that statement might make sense if you took out 'new jersey' and 'connecticut'

I have never met someone who bragged about the importance of connecticut, trying to imagine what that would entail

Come on, like ESPN would be the same if its operations were in Rhode Island.

I have never met someone who bragged about the importance of connecticut, trying to imagine what that would entail

Wallace Stevens is dead, true.

surprise surprise gabbneb is standing up for Chuckie.

that statement might make sense if you took out 'new jersey' and 'connecticut'

― iatee, Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nah, i stand by the original statement.

“Public sentiment — in terms of how Trump is behaving as president, what he’s doing as president — keeps sinking and sinking and sinking, and our Republican colleagues realize that,” Schumer told reporters after the vote. “So I think on this issue and other issues you’re going to find our Republican colleagues saying, ‘You know, maybe following Trump is like Thelma and Louise — right over the cliff.’”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/08/trump-veto-override-aca-war-powers-votes/

Relevant, appropriate, and relateable reference, Chuck.

Chuck hasn't yet realized he is also in the car

he's always waiting for someone else to do something

Apparently at a town hall yesterday Maryland’s two senators said basically the sane thing, so I guess that’s the party line.

soon we'll hear about trump's 'thelma & louise economy' if we're lucky

can someone photoshop Schumer 'n' Jeffries in the car

2010:

After Brown won the Senate race in Massachusetts, and the Obama agenda seemed stalled, Schumer told a meeting of his fellow Democratic senators, “If we ignore that and don’t change, we are like Thelma and Louise. We are headed right over the cliff. They were all saying, in as loud a voice as they could, all the middle-class people of Massachusetts—listen to us."

2013:

“If Republican mainstream conservatives continue to follow the tea party,” Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said in a telephone interview Thursday, “they realize they (tea partiers) are sort of like Thelma and Louise, taking the Republican car over the cliff.”

2014:

"I think mainstream Republicans are saying 'enough already, if we keep following the tea party we're going to follow like Thelma and Louise over a cliff,'" Schumer said at the same breakfast, referring to the 1991 movie of two women who tried to outrun the law.

2017:

The Democratic leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer of New York, was scornful of the Republican decision.

“Thelma and Louise are warming up the car,” Schumer said, referring to the eponymous movie that ends with two women driving their car off a very tall cliff to their deaths.

“They’re cutting taxes on the wealthy and taking health care from millions and raising premiums on millions of others all to reduce taxes on the rich,” said Schumer.

2023:

"And we talked about this. We believe that a lot of these Republicans will come to realize that if they follow the MAGA Republicans, it's like Thelma and Louise, right over a cliff," Schumer said. "They're going to be interested in their survival."

ready for Chuck Schumer‘s new podcast “the Bailey’s love movies!”

I was gonna say “it’s the last movie the Baileys went to the theatre to see”

https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExMmNqeHIzZ25zcWxzd3d5dGpyMmFkMjEwZ3c1MHhwdmwyemNwajBpbSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/hFsWlFJwY84jm/giphy.gif

Could we get the good Senator to record a commentary on the Thelma & Louise 4K

Because that’s obviously what he really wants

I didn't realize Thelma and Louise were the bad guys in Thelma and Louise

seems like the only thing he knows about the movie is that the movie ends when a car is driven over a cliff. nothing else about the movie's plot or its ending even remotely fits the point he's trying to make.

He also thinks all the cars following them also drive off the cliff.

It’s possible this man is stupid.

He’s the real life Charlie Brown trying to kick a football

now there's an up-to-the-minute cultural reference!

Ha!

Schumer and Jeffries only willing to go so far re ICE while AOC urges its funding be cut, and others want this early 2000s created agency shut down completely

Schumer also criticized the shooting.

“Looking at the video, there seemed no justification to what these agents did,” Schumer said. “There needs to be a full investigation at the federal level, although I have little faith in the FBI is doing a fair investigation or DHS, but at the local level as well.”

But both Jeffries and Schumer declined to say whether they would use their authority to rein in ICE. Democrats hope to take back the majority in at least the House of Representatives in November.

Jeffries later clarified that he was focused mostly on extending subsidies for the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace. Schumer avoided questions on his way out of the press studio.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-ice-shooting-minnesota-funding-b2896967.html

They probably figure that they'll catch less flak for things they don't say, because silence is hard to capture on tape and doesn't make for riveting video content.

can't believe this thread is 21 years old