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Technically it's another postmortem, but...

Read this: Listening to Trump.

Then see this headline:

We're fucked.

From the Intercept:

  • He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, sagely explaining "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."

  • Schumer's done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional efforts to crack down on rating agencies.

  • Schumer has long been the Democrats' point man in efforts to craft a bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.

  • Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a Senate hearing, Schumer explained that "it's easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in the foxhole, it's a very different deal." In certain cases, he said, "most senators" would say "do what you have to do." Schumer also defended the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.

  • In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W. Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer warned of Iraq's imaginary yet "vigorous pursuit of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons."

  • Schumer voted against Barack Obama's deal to limit Iran's ability to enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.

By fnord12 | November 18, 2016, 7:15 AM | Liberal Outrage


Reference from SuperMegaMonkey

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