{"id":185435,"date":"2014-11-20T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/20\/seriously-charles-schumer-is-a-boil-on-the-ass-of-the-body-politic\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T02:38:00","slug":"seriously-charles-schumer-is-a-boil-on-the-ass-of-the-body-politic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/20\/seriously-charles-schumer-is-a-boil-on-the-ass-of-the-body-politic\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, Charles Schumer is a Boil on the Ass of the Body Politic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I am <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/this-is-twisted-equivalent-of-japanese.html\">highly dubious<\/a> that the recent &#8220;leadership&#8221; position granted to Elizabeth Warren in the Senate, the response of Chuck Schumer to this development was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/11\/sen-chuck-schumer-rise-tested-by-liberals-113054.html?hp=t3_r\">a case study as to why the Democratic Party is seen as hopeless<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">When Reid was in talks with Warren about a job in Senate leadership earlier this month, Schumer suggested tapping moderate Sen. Mark Warner, too, to balance out her progressive politics \u2014 or perhaps making her a \u201cliaison to liberal groups,\u201d a narrower job than what Reid had proposed, according to sources familiar with the private talks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said no to both of Schumer\u2019s suggestions, later taking the job as a policy adviser to Schumer\u2019s messaging operation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Warner?  Seriously?!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>Because somehow or other, Elizabeth Warren is just so scary that Schumer needed for her to be counterbalanced by yet <b>another<\/b> bland creature of the oligarchs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I am highly dubious that the recent &#8220;leadership&#8221; position granted to Elizabeth Warren in the Senate, the response of Chuck Schumer to this development was a case study as to why the Democratic Party is seen as hopeless: When Reid was in talks with Warren about a job in Senate leadership earlier this month, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185435"}],"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=185435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}