I want to talk a bit about Chuck Schumer but first a couple of words on the FAA fiasco from yesterday. Mister Mix covered it this morning however I just want to add my two cents.

Here’s DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin, stepping to the microphone after Secretary of transportation Duffy:

This would even make members of the DPRK Supreme Peoples Assembly blush. The requirement that any Trump administration officials suck his d*^k in front of a microphone instead of actually dealing with the issues inside the agency they are supposed to be running is on a level that we have never before seen in the history of our country. But it is something undertaken by underlings of almost every single authoritarian dictatorship in the history of humankind.

The only mention of Trump should have been that the “President was alerted of the issue“. No president has the expertise to deal with specific issues in specific agencies. After telling everyone that the president was alerted, the entire focus should be on solving the problem and his name should never be mentioned again in the context of whatever the issue/problem is that needs to be resolved.

OK. Got that out of my system. Mostly. At least for now.

_______________________________________

Let’s move onto Senator Chuck Schumer.

.

This is 21st century Republican party crap. If you can’t get what you want under normal process, rig the rules of the game in your favor after the fact.

Schumer is 75 years old. He’s been the Leader of Senate Democrats for approximately 10 years. They’ve been in the majority for four of those years and the minority for six of those years. He’s a Wall Street shill (understandably – he represents the state of New York and comes from New York City). He’s an AIPAC shill (and while he’s Jewish, that is no longer an excuse for supporting Netanyahu, “the Trump of Israel”).

I’m not dissing Schumer’s dedication and past efforts. He’s not a bad person and he’s done some good things. However, he also hasn’t shined in any real way as Democratic Senate leader and he’s not irreplaceable (very few people in history are).

Several pundits and Schumer supporters are making the argument that you don’t fire the coach after they win the Super Bowl. I think that’s a flawed analogy.

This was a wave change election because Trump’s corruption, how it relates to voters’ everyday struggles, and the slavish support of the rest of the Republican party to his madness, finally broke through on a mass scale.

Voters want bold action to improve their lives. They don’t give a hoot about institutional integrity at this point.

It seems as if the filibuster - something that is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution - is a sticking point for Schumer vs. someone like Van Hollen. This is the problem. Schumer wants to protect a confederate era privilege that actually works against majority rule and getting important things done.

The reason Schumer has to go is the same reason many other long-serving electeds inside the DC Beltway bubble need to go. He’s become more concerned about his personal circumstances than the circumstances of the people who he supposedly represents (in this case, not just his constituents in NY but also his fellow Senators in the Democratic Party AND the rest of the people in the USofA. He’s no linger putting voters’ primacy above his own. He’s lost touch and doesn’t recognize the moment.

Nothing says that more clearly than changing the internal rules of the Democratic Senate caucus at the last minute to put personal gain above group achievement. That’s what the bad guys (and people who can’t win fair and square) do.

Time to go Chuck. You done good and we salute that. Let it go. It’s okay….