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"The Week", editorial on Senator Schumer
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/chuck-schumer-feckless-hack/ar-BBPLXLf
The Week
11/16/2018
Chuck Schumer, feckless hack
Ryan Cooper
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Where does Schumer come in? Well, in 2017, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) opened an investigation into Facebook over Russiagate and misinformation generally. (Far from being some fire-breathing populist, Warner is among the most milquetoast, business-friendly Democrats who has ever held high office.) But Schumer has raised more money from Facebook than any other member of Congress, his daughter works there, and he helped get his former staffer appointed to the Federal Trade Commission (which oversees Facebook). In concert with Facebook brass, he told Warner to lay off the company, reported the Times: "Mr. Warner should be looking for ways to work with Facebook, Mr. Schumer advised, not harm it."
So when it comes to sellout Democrats voting to make another financial crisis more likely, Schumer wrings his hands and hectors progressives not to criticize them too much (after which most of the sellouts lose anyway). But when those same sellouts start criticizing one of his favored sources of campaign cash, suddenly he discovers a knack for backroom arm-twisting and hardball tactics.
The problem isn't exactly that Schumer is cynical when he should be idealistic. It's that he's just so incredibly feckless. He burns all his political capital on defending despised banks who are no doubt cooking up new schemes to pillage the working class, and a monstrous social media giant that maybe helped Trump win and is hugely biased towards the extreme right in terms of traffic. What does he get in return? Three lost Senate seats.
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"The Week", editorial on Senator Schumer (Original Post)
saidsimplesimon
Nov 2018
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Squinch
(50,992 posts)1. He's my senator and I will always vote for him but he
is not who we need to lead us in the Senate right now. His gentlemanly "strongly worded letter" approach does us no good whatsoever. We need a Machiavelli.
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)3. +1000s
n/t
calimary
(81,435 posts)2. Giving away those 15 judgeships was enough to kill it for me.
Chuck Schumer IS a feckless hack. Glad we can thwart his cave-ins in the House, come January.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)4. I agree.
Held my tongue until MSN.com featured this in their news feed this morning.
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)5. Yet, so much energy being used to replace Pelosi who is a doer with results. I don't get it. n/t
tikka
(762 posts)7. Too many reps buying into the republican narrative on Pelosi
Schumer should never have been selected. He is ineffective and seems to only really work for Wall Street and now Facebook.
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)6. None, de nada, zilch
zero confidence in this man as a congressional leader. I have not observed him do anything but mutter and wander aimlessly and let the walls crumble around Us.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)8. A huge mistake by Harry Reid
JudyM
(29,265 posts)9. He needs to be fighting, not being ok with business as usual.