You know, we regulate pornography, so we ought to be able to regulate Chuck Schumer’s statements.

Do I have to let my kids see this?

jeff_from_mpls on February 9, 2009 at 6:04 PM

by supporting Stimulus, hopefully Schumer is digging his grave

jp on February 9, 2009 at 6:04 PM

this is what you link “http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=30630

Kjeil on February 9, 2009 at 6:05 PM

I always feel the need to shower after hearing him speak. UGH!

KelliD on February 9, 2009 at 6:07 PM

the dilemma here is we want the Dems to Fail but the country to succeed.

So which is it, Dems Fail(so they pass Stimulus) while the Country Fails.

Or the Dems don’t pass this, do something smart and the Country wins…which is good for the DNC

or are demographics to the point, we have lost already, permanent minority, etc.?

jp on February 9, 2009 at 6:08 PM

It’s always so nice of the opposition to tell us what we need to do to win elections. If we didn’t have big brother, boy, we’d probably think keeping terrorists in prison was good.

El_Terrible on February 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM

Hey, Blue State Chuck! How are you doing? I’m Barry Popik. I was born in New York State. I solved the origin of “the Big Apple.” A few years ago, like so many others, I left New York and moved to Texas.

Chuck, have you looked at New York? Do you know that New York State is bankrupt? Do you know that New York City is bankrupt? Do you know that the Metropolitan Transit Authority is bankrupt? Do you know that New York’s government is a laughingstock?

So, do you really want to lecture me on anything?

barrypopik on February 9, 2009 at 6:12 PM

Thank you, Chuckie, for the validation.

beatcanvas on February 9, 2009 at 6:14 PM

Few on Capital Hill are more despicable than Schumer.

Maxx on February 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM

Perhaps we are. I’d rather not sell out once widely accepted American principles.

blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 6:18 PM

You’d think he be happy about it. He never manages to hide his crass.

drjohn on February 9, 2009 at 6:19 PM

Can I disagree with him without having my credit report end up in his office?

aikidoka on February 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM

I’m sure the GOP is terrified of you, Charles.

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Christien on February 9, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Charles Schmuck

blatantblue on February 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM

Somebody needs to ask him: “Then what are you worried about?”

Jim Treacher on February 9, 2009 at 6:31 PM

Zackly.

petefrt on February 9, 2009 at 6:51 PM

As a citizen of upstate New York, I would like to say that Senator Charles Schumer has been a wonderful, nonpartisan legislator as well as a staunch advocate for my region of the state.

Did I mention that he also breeds unicorns and shoots happy rays out of his perpetually opened eyes?

Sheesh. Go schuck yourself, Foomer.

KingGold on February 9, 2009 at 7:02 PM

Schumer is up in 2010. Its time for him to retire.

Iblis on February 9, 2009 at 7:26 PM

Shut up Chuck. Up Chuck. Heh, fitting.

Geronimo on February 9, 2009 at 7:37 PM

Wow, he didn’t say it was a “dagger to the heart of the Republican Party.” That’s quite a shocker.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007426#joke

A New York Sun editorial remarks on the gift for metaphor of New York’s other senator, Chuck “The Knife” Schumer:

No sooner had [former] Senators [Connie] Mack and [John] Breaux unleashed their ideas on making the federal tax code more simple and fair than Senator Schumer unsheathed his rusty old dagger, describing the idea of eliminating the federal deduction for state and local taxes as “a dagger to the heart of the people of New York.” Voters might be inclined to listen–except for the fact that Mr. Schumer sees a dagger virtually everywhere he looks.

A 2003 plan for flexible work schedules instead of overtime? “A dagger to the heart of the middle class,” Mr. Schumer said, according to the Associated Press. A 2002 plan by federal regulators to urge Wall Street firms to establish backup facilities outside New York City? A “dagger pointed at the heart of New York,” Mr. Schumer said, according to the Daily News. High gas prices? “A dagger at the heart of our economy,” Mr. Schumer said in 2000, according to the New York Times. A unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood would be “a dagger through the heart of the peace process,” Mr. Schumer said in 2000, according to the Agence France Presse.

Hate crimes “put a dagger in the heart of what America is all about,” Mr. Schumer said in 1999, according to USA Today. A proposal to change the federal transportation funding formula was “a dagger pointed at” New York and California, Mr. Schumer said in 1999, according to the Washington Post. School vouchers? “Daggers that plunge into the heart of what is the American way,” Mr. Schumer said in May 1999, according to the New York Post. Cuts in federal student aid? “A dagger to New York’s college students,” Mr. Schumer told Newsday in 1995.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Mr. Schumer sees daggers more often than a four-eyed knife thrower looking through a kaleidoscope.

We’re trying to imagine Schumer’s reaction to the latest revelation of Harriet Miers’s abortion views: Miss Miers, I worry that your extreme antichoice position is the tip of an iceberg, an iceberg that is a dagger pointed at the heart of the mainstream. The sheer entertainment of watching Schumer go on like this is almost enough to make us hope the Miers nomination lasts long enough to make it to the Judiciary Committee.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007430
Joke and Dagger Dept.–II
With New York’s other senator, no matter how you slice it, it comes up daggers. Yesterday we noted a New York Sun editorial that listed eight uses by Sen. Chuck Schumer† of the “dagger” metaphor. Readers sent us more, and we forwarded some to our friends at the Sun, who produced another editorial today. (Curiously, it refers to someone who is “inestimable” and has the same name as your humble columnist.)

Here’s a collection of Schumer “dagger” quotes from today’s Sun editorial, along with enough to get the Sun at least through the week:

* ” I have sat with people who lived by the American dream. They saved their $25 a week for five or ten years, a subway motorman or a clerk in a supermarket. We told them ”play by the rules,’ and finally that great day came when they could have their little piece of the rock, a home. And in swoops a predatory lender, and two years later, they have no money, no home, no dreams. That is a dagger in the heart, not only of that family, but to all of us who believe in the American dream for everybody.”–testifying before the House Banking Committee, May 24, 2000

* “Until this proposal [McCain-Feingold] becomes law, organized crime, drug lords, and other various bottom crawlers in society unknown to any of us could influence the political process by contributing money and running ads that we all know are, for all practical purposes, political ads. To have no disclosure, let alone no limits, on these kinds of activities puts a dagger in the heart of democracy. Sunlight is the disinfectant we need. Sunlight is the disinfectant provided by this provision.”–on the Senate floor, June 28, 2000

* “Mr. President, let me make it clear that without the Schumer amendment this [bankruptcy] bill does not help women. It would be the leading dagger in keeping a woman’s right to choose.”–on the Senate floor, Dec. 5, 2000

* “You may recall that nearly 20 years ago, another president proposed eliminating this [federal income tax] deduction [for state and local taxes]. Well, let me tell you straight out, even though it would have repercussions across the nation, this is a dagger aimed right at the heart of New York.”–Schumer press release, Jan. 19, 2005 (link in Word form)

* “Overall as bad as having, say, that person on the bench is, it would have been worse to have the nuclear option, which would have really just brought the Senate to a grinding halt and been a dagger really right at the heart of what this republic is all about.”–on “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” May 24, 2005

* “Schumer, New York’s senior senator . . ., heralded [Tom] Daschle’s efforts [to kill the Federal Marriage Amendment], saying that he not only defeated the amendment but ‘put a dagger through its heart.’ “–Gay City News, June 16, 2005

* “Democratic Senators who had defended [Dick] Durbin [who likened U.S. servicemen to Nazis] immediately attacked [Karl] Rove [for saying Dems were soft on terror]. Senator Schumer raced to the microphones to proclaim that Rove’s remarks were “not only a slap at New York and all those who suffered. It’s a dagger to the heart of what America is all about.”–blogger Jack Mercer, June 24, 2005

venividivici on February 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM

You know I have one question to ask Sucky Chucky,

WHO CRAPPED IN YOUR EGG CREAM, MR. SCHUMER?!

BobAnthony on February 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM