How Schumer and the Democrats are preparing to fight

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As of Jan. 20, Chuck Schumer will be the most important Democrat in the land. But spend a few minutes with the incoming Senate minority leader and it’s clear where the real power lies.

I was interviewing the New York Democrat in his Capitol hideaway office this week when he paused to take a call on his archaic flip phone. It was about an event scheduled for the next day to highlight a new initiative tallying jobs “outsourced” overseas during the Trump presidency.

Schumer had one question: “Is Bernie coming?”

“He told me he’d come,” Schumer continued. “Hold on, I’ll call him right now.” The party leader had his aides track down Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the populist insurgent who nearly beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. “Hey, Bernie, so can you come?” Schumer asked. “We’ll do it at a time that’s good for you, okay? .?.?. Try to clear it. It’s a good event. .?.?. It’s right up your alley and you can help us by coming. .?.?. It complements what you’re doing. .?.?. We need you.”

Schumer hung up. “Okay, he’ll come.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/schumer-and-the-democrats-craft-their-attack-plan/2016/12/09/f02c42f8-be1a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.a75936f63278&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1#comments

[murielm99]

1. What nonsense.

If the power lay with Bernie, he would have won the fuckin' primary!

Including him, because he caucuses with Democrats, make sense. Warren and ALL other Democrats are included because we need to work together.

But remember, Bernie is no Democrat. He reverted to being an independent very quickly.

We have real problems in this country. Bernie worship is divisive and solves nothing. Get over yourselves.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Get used to it. Senator Sanders is the true HEART of the FDR and JFK Democrats.

[Greybnk48]

8. Yep. n/t

[murielm99]

13. Not for me,

and not for many, many other Democrats. I was actually alive when JFK was President.

We have serious problems in this country. Mooning over an aging socialist as though he is a rock star is not going to solve them. The repubbies and the neonazis are laughing openly about this kind of behavior. We need toughness, not finger-wagging.

[Cooley Hurd]

14. Mooning over a candidate because of their gender won't either.

[murielm99]

15. Oh, this again?

Why don't you just come right out and call us vagina voters? Or maybe you like having big, manly Russians as the power behind the throne.

I am used to the misogyny on DU, but I don't have to ignore it.

[Cooley Hurd]

16. My Biggest hero is My Mom.

A wonderful person who EVERYONE should aspire to be like. The first woman to run for the local school board to succeed her husband's (my Dad) seat.

Take that misogyny crap and... well, re-evaluate it! _I_

[Sorceress]

18. And Trump's biggest hero seems to be Ivanka but...

[trueblue2007]

19. STOP BEING A SEXIST PIG. Hillary is a strong WOMAN, get over it.

You don't like the fact that I have a vagina..... well tough.
Your note was really hateful.

[Cooley Hurd]

24. ...

[ananda]

23. Our Revolution

It's the only way!

[eShirl]

17. tell it to Schumer

[pnwmom]

2. Hah! Why did you leave this part out?: "Sanders didnt come."

He also barely campaigned for Hillary. He spent July and August and almost all of September busily writing his book (that for some reason couldn't wait till after the election.)

An article on September 30 said he was ready to start campaigning, after attending only two events in September (one in NH).

So if Bernie's an example of the "real power," we're even more screwed.

[sheshe2]

3. Boom

[Cha]

4. "Sanders didnt come." Wow.. Thank you for that, pnwmom..

He also barely campaigned for Hillary. He spent July and August and almost all of September busily writing his book (that for some reason couldn't wait till after the election.)

An article on September 30 said he was ready to start campaigning, after attending only two events in September (one in NH).

So if Bernie's an example of the "real power," we're even more screwed.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Whose choice was that? Senator Sanders or Secretary Clinton?

Perhaps she didn't want to remind anyone that she was a weak-enough candidate to have Senator Sanders nip as closely to her heels as he ultimately did?

And you can't hide behind the "he's not a Democrat" thing that enables you to bash him. But he's MORE a Democrat, in the FDR, JFK and Jimmy Carter mode than WJC and HRC will ever be.

Go to AtA and complain to them. I don't think this site was created to prop up DLC/Middle Way bullshit!

Bernie supported her after the primaries! Prove me wrong!

[pnwmom]

11. It was his choice. He had signed the book contract with a due date

that required him to write after the convention because the publisher wanted to publish on November 15.

[Cooley Hurd]

12. What utter nonsense.

[pnwmom]

22. I wouldn't call it nonsense; just an unfortunate decision

to sign a contract with the due date in September so that the book could be published immediately after the election.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/08/30/early-shakeout-at-our-revolution-bernie-sanderss-new-nonprofit/

August 24, 2016,

Sanders’s new book, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, will be on sale November 15th, a few days following the general election.

[trueblue2007]

20. you are 100000000% RIGHT pnwmom. and it makes me really sad that Bernie hardly helped Hillary.

He also barely campaigned for Hillary. He spent July and August and almost all of September busily writing his book (that for some reason couldn't wait till after the election.)

An article on September 30 said he was ready to start campaigning, after attending only two events in September (one in NH).

So if Bernie's an example of the "real power," we're even more screwed.

[trueblue2007]

21. Bernie should have campaigned MORE for Hillary !!!!

[NBachers]

5. This makes Schumer sound needy, dependent, and obsequious. Straight out of the Democratic mold.

Sorry, I'm enraged at the Democrats who derelicted their duty to stand up and defend the United States because they were terrified of Turtle Turd.

[KittyWampus]

9. that's probably the point.

[ismnotwasm]

10. Why would Bernie show up?

He has a revolution to run.