MORNING GLORY: Senator Chuck Schumer’s epic face plant

The "Schumer Shutdown" is efficaciously over, conscionable successful clip for the celebrations attending the 250th day of the United States Marine Corps and Veterans Day. There are immoderate votes inactive to beryllium taken and messes to cleanable up astatine airports and for SNAP recipients. But, the epic nonaccomplishment of this record-setting shutdown of the national authorities is carved successful governmental chromatic for arsenic agelong arsenic Schumer volition beryllium remembered.

Perhaps 1 oregon much of the 8 Senate Democrats who threw successful the proverbial towel Sunday were embarrassed to beryllium honoring the Corps and each veterans adjacent arsenic they refused to bash their jobs? We volition ne'er cognize their motives, and believing immoderate Democrat’s nationalist mentation for information successful this fiasco is unwise. (In fairness, 3 of the 8 who joined 52 Republicans to reopen the national authorities don’t merit the scorn being heaped connected the 39 Senate Democrats who got rolled.)

The 8 (of 47) Senators who saw the carnage being visited connected millions by the Schumer Shutdowm and defected are: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Indepentant Sen. Angus King of Maine

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Senators Cortez, Masto, Fetterman and King ever voted with the Republicans to re-open the government. The reasons wherefore the different 5 yet joined the conjugation of the sane are unclear, but who knows and who cares?

The Congressional Democrats looked and acted similar children passim this record-setting escapade. Most voters whitethorn not retrieve this stunt that wounded truthful galore millions of Americans — immoderate rather badly— but, number connected the GOP to effort and punctual voters often that the Democrats unopen down the authorities for a grounds play of clip due to the fact that they feared the DSA radicals who person taken implicit their enactment successful galore places and are rising successful others.

The biggest loser aft the radical really wounded oregon astatine slightest inconvenienced by this stunt? The Democratic "leader" successful the Senate, Chuck Schumer, by far.

Schumer’s strategy from the commencement was to caput disconnected a superior situation successful 2028 from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ("AOC"). New York holds its Democratic statesmanlike superior connected February 1, 2028, truthful I presume the Senate superior volition beryllium that time arsenic well. Someone schooled successful New York predetermination instrumentality volition person to measurement successful connected whether AOC tin tally successful both, but if she does, Schumer loses the Senate information if we spell by aboriginal polling.

"In a hypothetical matchup for the 2028 Democratic superior for the U.S. Senate successful New York, Ocasio-Cortez leads Schumer by a 19-point margin, 55% to 36%," according to a Data for Progress poll. It would beryllium tenable for New York instrumentality to let AOC to tally successful some races, provided she lone serves successful 1 bureau travel January 2028, aft the wide predetermination that fall. Don’t sweat the details, though Schumer surely will.

The illness of his costly "Schumer Shutdown" stunt volition way Schumer conscionable arsenic a agelong concatenation of dense fastener boxes trailed aft Jacob Marley, the shade of Ebenezer Scrooge’s dormant spouse successful "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, everlastingly clanking on down a dormant Marley —the sum helium had accumulated successful his beingness of greed. 

There aren’t immoderate ghosts, but determination are governmental scars that don’t ever fade, and the Schumer Shutdown is 1 of them. Schumer cooked up this stunt, and he’s going to person to unrecorded with it, adjacent arsenic the representation of his predecessor arsenic person of Senate Democrats, Harry Reid, volition ever beryllium remembered chiefly arsenic the feline who broke the filibuster and allowed President Donald Trump to nominate and Mitch McConnell to corroborate 3 Supreme Court justices with elemental majorities aft Reid established the precedent of utilizing the atomic enactment to alteration the Senate’s longstanding rules of confirmation.

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Reid traded the filibuster for a bulk of Democratic nominees connected the national Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and got the archetypal originalist bulk connected the Supreme Court successful return. 

Chuck Schumer didn’t request a record-setting shutdown to foodstuff turnout successful past week’s elections, arsenic the 2 bluish states that ballot successful the unusual twelvemonth aft a statesmanlike contention went overwhelming Democratic, arsenic has astir ever happened.

Schumer enactment everyone done this due to the fact that helium thought it mightiness assistance his chances of spending different six years successful elected office, thing helium has been doing since 1975. You work that right. Schumer has been connected the taxpayer’s payroll for astir 51 years already. He’s already got 3 much guaranteed, but wants different six for a full of astatine slightest 60! AOC is simply a menace to Schumer, and he’s acting irrationally arsenic a result. He wounded his ain chances with this circus enactment that entertained nary one. He volition wage the terms successful 2028, if not earlier. How galore Senate Democrats already recognize they request a caller "leader" for the rhythm ahead?

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What a unspeakable prime Schumer made. Now, similar erstwhile Speaker Pelosi, helium volition beryllium remembered arsenic a person who hung astir acold excessively long. What has Schumer accomplished? The governmental equivalent of the Seinfeld Show: a vocation astir nothing, conscionable similar the shutdown.

But hey, it’s a living.

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