Charles Schumer (D-Torture) paid a visit to daily kos today.
The stated reason was to discuss that “Winning the Presidency Isn’t Enough”, but really it was… well you be the judge:
The last time I posted here on DailyKos, I asked for your help recruiting quality candidates to run for the US Senate. The netroots responded – Web sites urging candidates to run sprung up, blog posts and emails went out, and today we have a Democratic field in the Senate that’s loaded with talent.
Beating incumbent Republicans is always a challenge. Our first goal was to recruit top-notch candidates in blue states – and today I can report that there are vibrant campaigns in states like New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, and Minnesota. Another goal is to remain competitive in states with retirements…
In 2008, I expect that the netroots will play an important role in every winning Senate race – we simply can’t do it without the support and passion of the grassroots…
Thank you again for your interest, I’ll try and answer as many questions as possible in the time I have.
Alas, Senator Schumer answered but one question, and that just barely. The flood began at question five (and I’ve deleted all the names and rec numbers since it made for crappy reading):
We should be able to have Senators from a state like New York that support their party and the Constitution rather than capitulate to the President by approving an Attorney General candidate who doesn’t even know if waterboarding is torture or if torture is illegal.
Once Senator Shumer tells me the DSCC is supporting primary challenges against Senators who betray the Constitution like that I’ll consider giving money again.
Oh, wait. Maybe that isn’t very likely.
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OOF. That one left a mark. So did this one:
Senator Shumer, you let Mukasey through. When we ask for better Democrats, we want Democrats who will stand up for core American principals and not back down from a fight over stopping torture.
I am in Congressman Nadler’s district, and I am sorely disappointed by the representation I’ve been getting in the Senate.
Given the collapse on FISA, Mukasey, contempt charges and troop withdrawal, give us a reason to support the candidates of the establishment instead of finding our own
Ouch.
Mukasey!! FISA!! Your credibility is GONE,
Senator Schumer.
Smoke and mirrors is what we have gotten from this Democratic Congress…that has been “keeping its powder dry” for some big fight.I haven’t seen ANY fight.
You are all talk.
Stand and deliver.
The likes of Schumer and Feinstein…
…are every bit as responsible for the lawless culture in DC as the repugs. Birds of a feather….
And it just gets worse. You can count the positive questions on one hand. You can count Schumer’s responses on one FINGER.
Is it just me….
or does Mr Schumer seem particularly tone deaf to be posting this request today right after the Senate sold us out once again.I wouldn’t give the likes of Schumer even a wooden nickle….
You are correct.
Winning the presidency is not enough to cure the ills facing this country.
We also need to make sure that we don’t have Democratic Senators giving cover to republican nominees who aren’t sure whether torture is illegal or not.
The Mukasey nomination which you pushed for isn’t working out so well, Senator. Torture is being committed in all of our names, and a lot of us aren’t too happy about that.
And the trifecta:
Btw how’s that Mukasey
thing working out for you Senator? Last I heard USAG Mukasey said he would not ever question legal opinions out and signed off by the President’s politically appointed OLC…gee that sounds an awful lot like a new power the president’s handpicked lawyers have given him….you know the ability to interpret law whatever way he may want without suffering any potential oversight or investigation by the people’s lawyer to ensure that their legal opinions are actually valid and on solid legal footing/basis, not based in some sort of “tortured legal logic” if you get my drift. Well anyway, I’m sure John Yoo and David Addington are very grateful and relieved to have Mukasey on board representing the ummm “People” of the US.
—————————————————–How about Mukasey?
Got an apology lined up for that travesty too?
———————————————As a New Yorker I was outraged by Schumer’s vote
to confirm Mukasey, given what he said (or wouldn’t say) about waterboarding.Senator Schumer, I sent you an email asking you to oppose him, and (unlike many members of Congress) your staff actually sent a detailed reply in your name. But it came weeks after the vote, and repeated the same unjustifiable arguments that it was better to have Mukasey than an “acting” AG.
In fact, what really mattered was not that we have an Attorney General who says what Bush and Cheney want him to, but the fact that YOU as a Democratic Senator voted for him. No words of concern can possible outweigh the endorsement that comes from you with that vote.
I was extremely disappointed in you, and in all of your colleagues who didn’t have the courage to vote no.
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and ask for our help on anything if you ask me. You have seriously let us down Sen. Schumer. I quit listening to you a few months ago. May I suggest you go read the Bybee Memo, you will need it.
To paraphrase the old Tootsie Pop ad, “How many uncomfortable questions does it take to make the Senator from NY run away?”
Only one, my friends. Only one. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.