{"id":182218,"date":"2015-11-18T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/18\/i-would-call-chuck-schumer-a-schmuck-but-a-schmuck-has-a-head\/"},"modified":"2015-11-18T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:38:00","slug":"i-would-call-chuck-schumer-a-schmuck-but-a-schmuck-has-a-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/18\/i-would-call-chuck-schumer-a-schmuck-but-a-schmuck-has-a-head\/","title":{"rendered":"I Would Call Chuck Schumer a Schmuck, but a Schmuck has a Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The distinguished gentleman from New York just <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/senate\/260471-schumer-refugee-pause-may-be-necessary\">came out publicly against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that if he had been alive in 1939, he would have been comfortably playing Mahjong with friends while the passengers on the MS St. Louis were sent back to die at the hands of the Nazis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, on Tuesday said it may be necessary to halt the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republicans immediately seized on Schumer\u2019s comment, which breaks with other Democrats who have argued against halting the program.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Schumer, however, declined to take the option off the table ahead of a special briefing scheduled for Wednesday afternoon on the process that is now used to vet refugees entering the United States.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe\u2019re waiting for the briefing tomorrow, a pause may be necessary. We\u2019re going to look at it,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Schumer is widely expected to become leader of Senate Democrats in the next Congress, after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) retires.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A spokeswoman for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) highlighted Schumer\u2019s statement as an example of \u201cbipartisan concern\u201d over refugees.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) signed a letter to President Obama Monday calling on him not to allow another Syrian refugee into the country unless federal authorities can guarantee with 100-percent assurance they are not connected to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Other Democrats have rejected freezing Obama\u2019s plan to resettle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the current fiscal year.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a toxic combination of stupidity, cowardice, and evil.<\/p>\n<p>His position is deeply wrong, and will be seized on by Islamist terrorists as a recruiting tool.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that I was registered to vote in New York so that I could vote against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distinguished gentleman from New York just came out publicly against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States. I&#8217;m sure that if he had been alive in 1939, he would have been comfortably playing Mahjong with friends while the passengers on the MS St. Louis were sent back to die at the hands of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,978,982,980,1076,979,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-politics","category-stupid","category-syria","category-terrorism","category-wanker","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}