Democrats disown insurgent Senator for his harsh words against party

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Democrats disown insurgent Senator for his harsh words against party

The State Column, Anna Jiang | November 26, 2014
 

 

New York Senator Charles Schumer gives advice to the Democratic party to rectify their political strategy.

 

New York Senator Charles Schumer delivered a scathing critique this week of recent Democratic Party political strategy and voiced his opinion that it was disastrous to push for health-care reform early in President Obama’s first term.

“It wasn’t the change we were hired to make,” Schumer said in a speech at the National Press Club. “Americans were crying out for an end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs, not for changes in their health care.”

Universal health coverage was not of interest to the middle class, the Democrats’ core constituency, Schumer argued, but only to “a small percentage of the electorate,” so “it made no political sense.”

Schumer is taking heavy flak from fellow Democrats, who accuse him of everything from hypocrisy to disloyalty. Most of the controversy is generated by the fact that Schumer is the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate and had been responsible for the party’s political messaging for much of the past six years. To many, his speech is a political gift for Republicans.

The senator also noted that American capitalism is delivering stagnant earnings and diminished economic prospects for middle-income Americans. In theory, at least, this should be a time of electoral triumph for the party of government.

Health reform may be working better lately, but polls still show that it is broadly unpopular, despite half a decade of assurances from supporters that the public would eventually warm to it.

Schumer’s answer to the first is incomplete: The problem isn’t simply that the uninsured are a minority of the electorate; it’s also that Americans are less inclined to regard universal coverage as a federal responsibility than they used to be.

This trend was evident as of the time Obama took office, and accelerated after the passage of Obamacare, according to the Gallup poll, which shows that only 42 percent of the public considers insuring everyone the government’s job today — down from 69 percent in 2007.

Schumer’s advice for the Democrats’ political problems are that the party should “embrace” active government more firmly than ever — but make its benefits clearer, both in word and deed, to the middle class.

He suggested that the party focus on policies that are “simply and easily explained,” a wise, if belated, acknowledgment that the health-care law’s very complexity made it both harder to implement and easier, for Republicans, to attack.

 

 

 

 

[10 YEARS LATER]

I voted for it b-4 I voted against it. Interesting how Dems accuse Schumer of hypocrisy and disloyalty. Who's surprised that this politician goes where the wind blows.

 

Schumer "must be up for re-election" . . . he's just trying to save his political bacon, After all, what's a career politician to do > personally, I don't think this duplicitous pin head is fit to scrub a toilet.

 

They rammed their agenda down the throats of the American people . . . . now one by one they're walking it back. Oh, I'm sorry for being a major spokesman for my complicit behavior in decimating the USA ? Gee, I'm only human, VOTE for me ? He should be run out of town on a rail.

 

Part of the problem and never a part of the solution.

[dontlop]

Looks like a planned attack

That moron will be on the ticket with Hillarious hes just establishing himself as different from obama as Hillarious is doing

They all are on the same team no matter what they claim

He and Hillarious will put up a huge fight for the white house and get their usual votes from the morons of the USA but won't get the swing votes

They will lose and hopfully the repubs get enough senate seats to get a super majority filibuster proof congress and White House so they can finally straighten out this mess

They have never had a filibuster proof republican led govt and if they do you cling ons who sucked our country dry for your entire lives are going to pay the piper for your I conciderate lives

We could never work hard enough on long enough hours to satisfy your obeast liberal asssssees

You always wanted more and more and more and more and more

Nickle and diming crying and whining for your entire lives

We all know who you are we have lived with you for all of our lives we have neighbors and relatives that are nothing more than leachs

Edited November 27, 2014 by dontlop

[MiuraDude]

Amen dontlop. Spot on comments!

[psdon]

He should be run out of NYS and Andrew Cuomo and the safe act    Cuomo is looking  at 2016 run  ( U.S.A. Safe act )  

[new york kevin]

Looks like a planned attack

That moron will be on the ticket with Hillarious hes just establishing himself as different from obama as Hillarious is doing

They all are on the same team no matter what they claim

He and Hillarious will put up a huge fight for the white house and get their usual votes from the morons of the USA but won't get the swing votes

They will lose and hopfully the repubs get enough senate seats to get a super majority filibuster proof congress and White House so they can finally straighten out this mess

They have never had a filibuster proof republican led govt and if they do you cling ons who sucked our country dry for your entire lives are going to pay the piper for your I conciderate lives

We could never work hard enough on long enough hours to satisfy your obeast liberal asssssees

You always wanted more and more and more and more and more

Nickle and diming crying and whining for your entire lives

We all know who you are we have lived with you for all of our lives we have neighbors and relatives that are nothing more than leachs

 

Me agreeing with Dontlop, whoda thunk? Actually I knew I would. Rarely, but I do. The blue moon must be shining. Happy Thanksgiving Dontlop to you and yours. God Bless.

 

Look how conveinencing he was. Guess the middle class is not as "Grubber" as they thought they were. Lets just hope the middle class doesn't totally disappear before the Dems get the full boot. Maybe, God willing, Nancy and Harry will just quietly retire. Yeah right. Then vote em out..