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the pathetic state of NY politics	tomder55	12/05/05
You gotta love it . I had no idea that Chucky's name was now a verb . Add this to your Webster "Schumed"(verb) "the act of taking credit for the work of a colleague." As the NY Sun reports : Schumer's colleagues have long complained that he has a strong tendency to steal their thunder on legislative, and even personal, announcements. A famous example comes from a former Democratic congresswoman of New York, Susan Molinari: During a shared television appearance at which Ms. Molinari planned to announce that she was pregnant, Mr. Schumer showed arrived on the set with a baby gift. "I was announcing being pregnant," Ms. Molinari told the New York Times. "And Chuck stole the line." On Friday, though, it appeared as though Mr. Schumer's better-known Democratic colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, was the one doing the "Schuming." That morning, the New York Post reported that Mrs. Clinton had sent a sharply worded letter the previous day to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, asking him to block the Transportation Security Administration from allowing scissors on commercial flights. The TSA said in August that it would be reviewing its policy, and when word of the new, relaxed rules got out late last week, Mrs. Clinton decided to give Mr. Chertoff a piece of her mind. But when the new policy was announced officially the following day, Mr. Schumer announced that he was actually working on legislation with two congressmen that would block the changes with a law. In a morning press release, Mr. Schumer said that he and two Democrats, Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York, would be working "to introduce legislation in the Senate to address this issue soon." For emphasis, Mr. Schumer's press office sent the same release again eight minutes later. Three minutes after that, in inboxes everywhere, a release appeared from Mrs. Clinton's office that included excerpts of her letter to Mr. Chertoff. Since it wasn't dated, those who hadn't read the Post story were left believing that Mrs. Clinton was responding to Mr. Schumer's earlier announcement, that he would be working to block the measure in law. But Mrs. Clinton's press office wasn't through. At 6:45 p.m. Friday, it issued a press release announcing that Mrs. Clinton would be introducing a bill in the Senate banning certain sharp objects from commercial flights. The release said that Mrs. Clinton "would introduce" and Mr. Schumer would "co-sponsor" companion Senate legislation to a House bill by Messrs. Crowley and Markey. ......................................... Hillary had a busy weekend See this site for a video of the moonbat wing of the Democrats protesting Hillary because she has not completely joined the anti-war Democrats . I once thought she had the nomination in 2008 locked. But now I think the Dems. will completely melt down and pick a 21st century version of George McGovern to run."I disagree with those who believe we should immediately pull out," she told the crowd. "And I disagree with those who say we should stay there forever." Typical Clintonian triangluation. Hillary is just finding it too difficult to straddle a picket fence.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 12/06/05 6:53 am: Steve Don't ya just love the way that Kerry accuses the US soldier of terrorism and then his solution is for the Iraqis to do it instead ? Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 12/06/05 9:04 am: Yep, and as Kerry said, "whether you like it or not."
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Itsdb		12/05/05
...but as Schumer's aid put it, "the main point is that they will be working together." That's funny, the Dems can't seem to "work together" on anything beyond destroying Bush. As for 2008, watch out for Kerry again, he's been running for about 8 months now. Problem is, he still can't decide which way to vote or keep his foot out of his mouth: "And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not..." Hillary's run getting sabotaged by her own kind of people - priceless. Steve

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