This, a brief take on the budget impasse, but mainly about Chuck Schumer. It’s time for him to go. I know that there is no real or realistic scenario where he really could be kicked out of office or at least as minority leader in the Senate, but he could theoretically do so himself, nevertheless, here is why he should vacate his office.
I already made the observation confirmed by many of his colleagues, that Chuck is holding the government hostage in an attempt to save his ass from a humiliating confrontation and probable defeat by the hand of his own party member AOC, this the point person for the larger contingent for the extreme left. Add to that, during the shutdown, he is attributed as saying such things as: ‘every day this gets better for the democrats’, and ‘this will go on until the planes drop out of the sky’. What he is signaling here is that if anyone is going to open the government and specific to his people, save the party, he is saying, IT WON’T BE ME. The end…his end. Translation: ‘I’m willing to ruin the whole country and destroy my own party before I betray the whack-jobs to my left, but really, just to save my own ass. In my prior article, I lowered his designation from leader to manager, but in retrospect, that too is too kind. What do you call a person that’s willing to bring the whole house down on their own head? Psychopath.
The business of budgets, spending, appropriations, taxes, while all are of course important, it’s not my passion in critiquing government. Defining what is constitutionally and fiscally prudent is a broader guiderail that’s closer to my interest but that as well is best left to expert-others after which the former matters can be hashed out by congress. I am not passionate either about ending the shut down or keeping the shutdown apart from the notion that it can’t go too long without hurting us in ways that we may yet FAFO. Some say the shutdown is the golden opportunity for conservatives to shrink government permanently and it may be, yet I still err on the side of stability and predictability. My guess is that most Americans have that same level of interest.
Where I get outraged is to see Chuck Schumer and his Democrats flip into terrorist in their attempt to hold the rest of the country hostage to the demands of a small faction. They know they don’t have a legislative consensus to push their agenda in appropriations debates so they’re willing to watch tens of thousands of govies lose their job and millions of them to fall behind on their bills waiting for cash to arrive that Chuck has held up. In my book, that’s what makes him pathetic, and he should resign in disgrace. If the government was a school yard and Chuck Schumer was the petulant bully that acted like this, everyone would rightfully hate him.
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