New King of Washington Promises Moderate Court; Rove-like, Plans
Permanent Democratic Majority; More N.Y. Homeland Money, Iraqi
Federalism
More than the inability to influence Iraq policy or the President’s tax cuts, Chuck Schumer says that the single greatest failure of the Democrats as an opposition party was allowing Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court.
“Judges are the most important,” said Mr. Schumer, who orchestrated the implausible Democratic takeover of the Senate last week. “One more justice would have made it a 5-4 conservative, hard-right majority for a long time. That won’t happen.”
From now on, all the President’s judicial appointments will need to meet the requirements of Mr. Schumer, the Park Slope power broker who has happily accepted the mantle of chief architect for the Democrats’ effort to build a majority for the 2008 elections and beyond.
Chucky must've borrowed Barbara's boxers and Pelosi's balls, but then he went on to gloat, brag and get back to his real politics.
For one thing, Mr. Schumer said, New York will soon be “disproportionately”
enjoying the spoils of last week’s victory.
He said that the formula for determining which areas receive homeland-security funding will be changed to benefit places of high risk, like New York, and that more money will be sent to the city for health care and education, including the “No Child Left Behind Act” and special-education programs. He predicted increased federal
funding for a proposed tunnel between New York and New Jersey and the Second
Avenue subway line, and said that his own bill making college tuitions
tax-deductible—which the Republicans refused to renew in May—would be passed in the “first month or two” of the next session.
Schmer did not discuss other added benefits, such as "anti-aging" assistance to the ever growing number of illegal alien dead voters that voted Democrat in disproportionate numbers.
But refusing to not play the idiot, Schumer returned to the subject of international strategy and diplomacy.
Now, Mr. Schumer said, he hopes that a controversial plan strongly advocated by
Senator Joe Biden of Delaware—which essentially calls for the dissolution of
Iraq into three autonomous ethnic enclaves (and which Mr. Schumer quietly
supported last year)—will emerge as a concrete Democratic alternative to current
administration policy.
“It may actually move into play,” said Mr. Schumer. “I’ve always believed that the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds hate each other more than they will ever love any central
government.”
Outside of Iraq, Mr. Schumer echoed his colleagues’ calls for more multilateralism and said the climate of greater comity would help in North Korea—“We are totally dependent on the Chinese,” he said—and in the Middle East.
“I really dislike the Syrians,” Mr. Schumer said. “That’s the problem here. But it probably ends up being better to talk to them than not.”
Mr. Schumer wanted to make clear that these will not be mere suggestions to be considered or discarded by the White House as the administration sees fit.
Stealing Biden's political jokes? His version of comity with Syria? His laser-like reality on a solution for his equal Kim Jong-il?
What a Chuckster. Ha ha.
