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http://washingtonnote.com/has_chuck_schum/During the third of three major efforts of the George W. Bush administration to get the recess appointed US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton confirmed in the US Senate, Senator Schumer launched a passionate personal campaign to help Bolton succeed.
Schumer called many Democratic Senate colleagues and bluntly said, A vote against John Bolton is a vote against Israel.
Senator Christopher Dodd finally challenged Schumers advocacy for Bolton and this statement in a meeting of the weekly Democratic Senate Caucus at the time and put an end to Schumers campaign.
What Schumer was distorting was that every administration, Republican and Democrat, had in the past been a good friend of Israel. Bolton represented the face of Jesse Helms-inspired pugnacious American nationalism largely disdainful of international institutions and engagement, and it was well within the latitude of the United States Senate to reject Bolton, or in this case filibuster him, on numerous grounds without having the Israel card pulled.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/remember-when-chuck-hagel-voted-for-aipac-supported-john-bolton/266486/
He does not believe in diplomacy. He supports a John Bolton style of foreign policy, in the most literal sense possible. To the point he was willing to engage in gutter attacks against other Democrats in order to help push the Bush/Cheney/Bolton agenda.
So, yeah, his vote against Obama's nuclear deal was always guaranteed. He's an enemy of peace and diplomacy.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)New York. Or anywhere else in the US, for that matter. Defending Israel is fine, but at the expense of US interests?
Ya wanna know how many mornings I wake up wishing he was a Republican so we could run someone against him?
(Cuomo, too. Two scumbags for the price of one.)
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to promote Bush/Cheney/Bolton policies.
He's Dick Cheney when it comes to foreign policy.
6chars
(3,967 posts)from the state of New York
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)the state of Connecticut, just like Zell Miller was a Democratic Senator from the state of Georgia.
Fuck Chuck.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)He's not just any old Republican - he's one the most pro-war Americans there is. It doesn't even matter to him too much who the ar is with. I mean, for fuck's sake, he screwed Republicans if it meant an increased chance of war:
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/4/19/colin_powells_former_chief_of_staff
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)and that Bush lied us into a war.
That's the kind of extremist Schumer is.