The poster points out the Schumer is actually good at the job and goes on to explain how difficult it is to run the Senate. Do you have anyone else in mind who knows the job better?
Schumer IS actually good at the job and it IS difficult to run the Senate. Trump’s running the executive for Putin and his own family, and Schumer’s running the Senate for Israel. They’re both doing really well for their employers, Schumer IS a gifted majority leader, and I continue to expect them both doing that same fine job for others for as long as they are in their roles.
But who’s going to run the Senate for Americans? Better a motivate, passionate American who is working for Americans than a great operator working for anyone else.
And you wanna know something? If Schumer is even a fraction of the American you’re holding him out to be, he will SUPPORT whoever is chosen, and work to strengthen that person’s skill in whatever ways he can without shivving them in the back. But I wouldn’t hold my breath, and meanwhile the Senate is full of emeritus Dems who are wise and passionate and will make fantastic mentors for whoever is chosen.
Did you not see the headline of the thread you’re on? Chris Van Hollen would be fine with me. A lot of people want Bernie, but he’s 85 and his talents are best used exactly where they are, so it’s not a realistic proposal. I would also be fine with Jeff Merkley or Elizabeth Warren, but again that may not be where their own talents or even desires lie. And of course LBJ is dead.
But at this point in my life, anyone still taking AIPAC money is not eligible. Sheldon Whitehouse would make a great Majority Leader in my opinion, for example, he’s got the goods, but he’s tainted by AIPAC. A lot of the good ones are. But progressives are all going to be hard NO on that, and even for me it’s just a non-starter now.
Out of 57 senators, we can find one to do the job. It’s not like the one selected won’t have help.
Hilarious.
The poster points out the Schumer is actually good at the job and goes on to explain how difficult it is to run the Senate. Do you have anyone else in mind who knows the job better?
Schumer IS actually good at the job and it IS difficult to run the Senate. Trump’s running the executive for Putin and his own family, and Schumer’s running the Senate for Israel. They’re both doing really well for their employers, Schumer IS a gifted majority leader, and I continue to expect them both doing that same fine job for others for as long as they are in their roles.
But who’s going to run the Senate for Americans? Better a motivate, passionate American who is working for Americans than a great operator working for anyone else.
And you wanna know something? If Schumer is even a fraction of the American you’re holding him out to be, he will SUPPORT whoever is chosen, and work to strengthen that person’s skill in whatever ways he can without shivving them in the back. But I wouldn’t hold my breath, and meanwhile the Senate is full of emeritus Dems who are wise and passionate and will make fantastic mentors for whoever is chosen.
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Did you not see the headline of the thread you’re on? Chris Van Hollen would be fine with me. A lot of people want Bernie, but he’s 85 and his talents are best used exactly where they are, so it’s not a realistic proposal. I would also be fine with Jeff Merkley or Elizabeth Warren, but again that may not be where their own talents or even desires lie. And of course LBJ is dead.
But at this point in my life, anyone still taking AIPAC money is not eligible. Sheldon Whitehouse would make a great Majority Leader in my opinion, for example, he’s got the goods, but he’s tainted by AIPAC. A lot of the good ones are. But progressives are all going to be hard NO on that, and even for me it’s just a non-starter now.
Out of 57 senators, we can find one to do the job. It’s not like the one selected won’t have help.
Read the title of the post.