Chuck Schumer Unloads on Obama

Senator Chuck Schumer may have just lost any shot at succeeding Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader if the Nevada Senator stumbles in the upcoming tough 2010 challenge he is facing.

Politico's Ben Smith shares word of a very harsh critique that Schumer publicly shared with a conservative Jewish show today of Obama's Middle East policy.

Schumer's screed gets to the edge of sounding as if he is more a Senator working in the Knesset than working in the United States Senate.

This is the 2nd time I know of that Schumer has publicly crossed the line when it came to zealously blaming his own government and colleagues in delicate matters of US-Israel-Palestine policy.

During the third of three major efforts of the George W. Bush administration to get the recess appointed US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton confirmed in the US Senate, Senator Schumer launched a passionate personal campaign to help Bolton succeed.

Schumer called many Democratic Senate colleagues and bluntly said, "A vote against John Bolton is a vote against Israel."

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Chertoff, Mukasey, Bolton. He needs to be reminded he is a US senator.

Schumer has done PLENTY to undermine other Democrats and take any credit for himself - like on healthcare - he was all talk on the blogs and behind closed doors he was siding with greater compromise and protection for insurance companies.


He's one of the biggest snakes in DC.

He flat out lied to congress with his spin on "assault weapons".

He simply conforms to his audience. Luckily in NY we have a mostly liberal demographic. If he was a Senator from Arkansas, I am positive he would be a conservaDem.

And told them that I and others in my upper west side neighborhood are not happy with him. Also didn't like his shoving Gillibrand on us.

of POTUS either...

I've had no use for him since that.

sure she looks good next to Harold Ford, but who doesn't. I also think she is only voting the correct way now because she is under the spotlight and heading into an election (same situation as Arlen Specter). Like we are supposed to believe they are liberals all of a sudden.

for Majority Leader" train, can Sen. Dick Durbin raise a strong enough profile to be the Democratic Majority Leader if Sen. Reid doesn't win re-election?

and he'll have Obama, Biden and Kerry standing quietly behind the scenes with him.

that put Israel before(Harman,Lieberman,Schumer) are disloyal to this country and should not be reelected.

you have a problem with that?

You have a problem with differing opinions? Do they always mean disloyalty or treason in your mind?

nt

being as anti gun as Schumer is clearly being anti civil rights

You are a COWARD if you think you MUST have a gun.

Period.

Smart GUN CONTROL is SMART.

Do you believe in smart marriage laws as well?

As Glenn Greenwald noted in Salon yesterday, 76 Senators have signed a letter disagreeing with Obama's treatment of Israel.

Backing the foreign policy of another country over that of your own.

What is it with the Dems once they reach office?

They ARE "just like the repukes"!

It's all a game to them...

Why is he bring this up now anyway? Why doesn't he address his concerns to our Secretary of State-a former colleague from NY?