Schumer's Flip Phone Is The Thorn On WH's Side Of The Border Wall Fight

[riversedge]

I am glad to see this article --and good that he is getting credit also.

Both of our Dem leaders need the world to see they work together to get the job done.






Schumer’s Flip Phone Is The Thorn On WH’s Side Of The Border Wall Fight

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/schumers-flip-phone-white-house-border-wall-fight


By Lisa Mascaro

January 30, 2019 5:35 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House plan for peeling off Democrats to support President Donald Trump’s demands for billions in border wall money ran into a particularly stubborn obstacle: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s flip phone.

Schumer had already been talking with his colleagues for months, anticipating Trump’s fight. Soon after the midterm elections in early November, the New Yorker started doing what he does best, talking to his senators.


One by one, he dialed them on his vintage flip phone to gauge support for spending money on the wall with Mexico. He made a beeline for them across the Senate floor. He cornered them in the Senate gym. Most Democrats told him they were against it.

That unity buoyed Democrats during the just-concluded shutdown saga and is now girding them for the next tussle, with a second federal closure threatened by the White House.

While Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seized the starring role against Trump’s border wall, Schumer played no small part by helping shore up his side of the Capitol and bolstering Pelosi’s position.......................

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. they work well together

[localroger]

2. I keep forgetting how painful that is to watch.

Trump is such a buffoon. Meanwhile, Chuck is perfectly content to let Pelosi do what she's good at even if it means giving her the steering wheel, and doing what he's good at even if he's doing it from the back seat. It's how you do teamwork.

[brooklynite]

4. I think Mike Pence deserves proper credit...

You never saw his lips move through the entire show...

[NewJeffCT]

5. I kept expecting Schumer to break the 4th wall and start talking to the viewing audience

He looked rather happy that donny said he'd own the shutdown "I can't believe he just did that..."

[localroger]

6. Omigawd yes

You know his handlers probably spent three days pounding on Trump that if there is a shutdown, they have to blame it on the Democrats. And when Pelosi said "Trump shutdown," all that blew away. All Trump heard was his name attached to something and It Was Good. Seismographs around Wash DC probably recorded a 5 Richter earthquake from all the facepalms going on at that moment.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Schumer knows what he is doing but who's the stiff with the white hair?

His head isn't pointy so it can't be Stone.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. that's Mother Pence's automaton

She plugs him in occasionally. Mostly, he just sits around collecting dust.

[George II]

7. Who cares that he has a flip phone? At least it can't be hacked!

[NBachers]

9. But I read that many Democrats are calling the White House in support of the wall!

[malaise]

10. I will never forget the look on Schumer's face when the Con said

He'd take ownership of the shutdown. It was freaking priceless.