Politiks As Usual 4/23/12

George Zimmerman Released On Bond, MSNBC Cheerleading For Conviction

John Edwards Criminal Trial Starts Monday

Mitt's 'McCain Impression'

Gun Industry’s Economic Impact Skyrockets During Obama Years

1 In 2 New Graduates Are Jobless Or Underemployed

Obama's Real Hilary Rosen Problem

Schumer: Citizens United Worse than Racial Segregation Case Plessy v Ferguson

Scott Walker to Newsmax: Obama's Machine Spending $60 Million to Defeat Me

John McCain, the 2008 Election, and Civil Unrest

Video: Marion Barry Explains Racism Culturism To You All

Chuck Schumer Caught Telling Senators To Smear GOP, Speaker Boehner

It's like Schumer get his orders from Media Matters or something:

So much for civil discourse. Sen. Charles E. Schumer briefly revealed his true face Tuesday as reporters listened to him instruct fellow Democrats in how to paint Republicans and House Speaker John Boehner as extremist Tea Party zealots in the budget debates.


“I always use the word extreme,” Schumer told his fellow Democrats. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”


Republicans were quick to blast the remarks.


“It just lends to the fact to what we’ve always known, that this is a political game," said Rep. Allen West on Fox News. "It’s about gamesmanship, it’s about maneuvering, and it really is about politics. It’s not about doing what is best for the American people, it’s not about reducing the size and scope of the federal government so we can get back to have long-term, sustainable economic and job growth. I think Charles Schumer showed his hand. Now it’s up to the American people to realize who are really the ones who are standing as an obstacle for us to move forward.”


West added that Schumer, Harry Reid, and Obama want a shutdown so that they can use it to blame Republicans, and position themselves for 2012.


The brief peek behind the curtain came as Schumer was about to start a conference call with reporters on Tuesday morning, according to The New York Times. The No. 3 Democrat in the Senate was apparently unaware that many of the reporters were already on the line when he began revealing what passes as strategic messaging for Democrats.

Democratic Opposition To Obama Giving Terrorists Miranda Rights Grows

CNN.com:

Congressional Democrats are increasingly concerned about the President's plan to bring Guantanamo detainees to the United States for trial, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday to block it.

Eighteen senators, including two Democrats and one Independent, unveiled a bill Tuesday to withhold funding the President requested to try terror suspects in civilian courts.

"It's an unusual thing we're doing here," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-CT. "We are trying to use Congress' power of the purse to stop these trials."

The move comes a day after the President requested in his budget a boost in homeland security funding to help pay for the transfer and trials of detainees on U.S. soil.

One of the Democratic co-sponsors is Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, who is facing a tough re-election battle this year.

When asked by CNN if the White House is being tone deaf in asking Democrats like her to support bringing Guantanamo detainees to the U.S., Lincoln replied: "I think I would be tone deaf if I didn't respond to the people who I believe are very concerned about how this is happening, and if I wasn't speaking out and speaking my mind. It's why I'm here today."

"I think its important for the administration to hopefully hear from those of us who do have grave concerns," said Lincoln.

A similar Senate measure got 55 votes in November, not enough to meet a 60 vote threshold to pass.

Chuck Schumer is behind the opposition. I can feel it. Schumer's catching major heat in New York City for Barry's stupidity here, his approval ratings are dropping and he's the mentor to junior senator Kristen Gillibrand, who may or may not be facing a tough race for Billary's old seat seat soon from Harold Ford come November. Funny what it takes for the idiots on the Left to use some common sense.

Leave Chuck Schumer Alone

It's kind of ass-backwards to see Malkin work herself up over Chuck Schumer getting caught calling an airline stewardess a "bitch" behind her back the other day. I mean conservatives have lots of reasons to be upset with uber-liberals like Schumer, but this isn't one of them. Really now, who hasn't uttered a curse word or two under their breath at someone interrupting what they were doing, even if all they were just trying to help out? It's called being human. Besides, Chuck Schumer's from New York for chrissakes, since when are we known for being polite?

Chuck Schumer Warns GOP: Oppose Sotomayor At Your Own Peril

Liberals and their selective memory are just funny like that sometimes. The same loons who bounced the qualified Robert Bork with zealous tales drenched in rank partisanship, literally tried to incriminate Clarence Thomas during Senate confirmation hearings and even gave the experienced John Roberts a hard time, are now out and about threatening anyone who dares tries to block Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to SCOTUS:

New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says if Republicans oppose Sonia Sotomayor, they'll do so at their "own peril."

"I think the confirmation process will be more of a test of the Republican Party than it is of Judge

Sotomayor," Schumer told reporters Tuesday. "It's a test for the Republican Party because she is a mainstream justice. ... Why would they oppose her? There's no really good reason."

Conservatives groups will argue — and indeed already are arguing — that Sotomayor is an activist judge who can be blinded by her own liberal politics.

Although Republicans say the Senate should take its time in considering Sotomayor's confirmation, Schumer said the timetable is up to Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).

"I think people will look at the yes or no vote on the whole record, not on the question of procedures on the Judiciary Committee," he said.

Norm Coleman's Last Shot Is Minnesota Supreme Court

That's the only conclusion one can draw from this, that and a prayer along with a miracle:

Minnesota has just finished counting the 351 previously-rejected ballots approved by the three-judge panel as having been legally cast and rejected in error. The numbers: Al Franken 198, Norm Coleman 111, Other 42.

This means that Al Franken's lead has increased from the 225 he had going into today, up to 312 votes out of roughly 2.9 million. We still need to wait for the judges to rule on the remaining issues, but the vote-counting during the election contest-proper is done.

The only way for Coleman to overcome this lead would be to win an appeal against the election court's prior rulings in favor of strict standards to let in new ballots, or to somehow win his much more far-fetched proposal to retroactively declare a number of absentee votes illegal and deduct them from the totals based on countywide averages. The first one is more likely in terms of feasibility, and even that's a long shot, leaving the Coleman camp at their other proposal to "set aside" the election result entirely.

Wow, Chuck Schumer is one of the a-holes calling on Norm Coleman to concede. Norm Coleman should use every available option he has left despite the dire circumstances. He has that right. He has to fight to the end for his constituents.

Two-Faced Christopher Dodd Gave Money To AIG

Newsmax.com:

Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd on Monday criticized the bonuses given to executives of American International Group Inc. and suggested that the government could tax the recipients to recoup some or all of the payouts.

But it was Dodd who inserted language — known as the Dodd amendment — in the $787 billion stimulus bill that allowed all bonuses awarded before February 11, 2009, to be paid to AIG executives. That very amendment, which is now law, is now the chief hurdle to government officials who want to recover that money.

The amendment was meant to restrict executive pay for bailed-out banks, but it also included the exception for "contractually obligated bonuses agreed on or before Feb. 11, 2009."

Dodd is the largest single recipient of 2008 campaign donations from AIG, with $103,100, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That was more than presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain got, and nearly three times the $35,965 Sen. Hillary Clinton received.

It's the liberal way to never accept responsibility for anything. Whether it's AIG bonuses, Bernard Madoff (a major Democrat contributor as Chuck Schumer could tell you) or the recent Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac crisis, liberals continue to pass the buck. The weasels like Christopher Dodd just can't help themselves.

Chuck Schumer Says Americans Don't Care About Pork

You know what? He's probably right. As long as they get their share of the fat, does the average American really care about all the pork in this stimulus bill? Have they even bothered to read any of it? Probably not. Meanwhile we'll probably just continue to go broke.

Scam Artist And Democrat Donor Bernard Madoff Reminds You Of Jack Abramoff

Newsbusters.org:

The wires services and the rest of the Old Media have also been reporting on a scandal that doesn't have to do with Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich. But, like the Blago story line, the media seem to be forgetting one small aspect of the story of Wall Street rip off artist Bernard Madoff. Like Blago, Madoff's connections to the Democrat Party seem to be of little interest to the media.

Very few media stories of the fraud perpetrated by former Nasdaq chairman Madoff mentions the heavy financial support that Madoff has donated to the Democrat Party. Campaign contributions by Madoff show many thousands of dollars going to Democrat candidates and causes. Including $100,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign, thousands to Charles Rangel (D, NY), Charles Schumer (D, NY), and $6,000 to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Madoff also gave generously to Senator Frank Lautenberg (D, NJ) who runs a charitable foundation that invested with Madoff.

With the money that Madoff spread around in contributions is it really surprising that his actions went ignored by regulatory agencies?

In any case, the media seems wholly uninterested in the fact that Madoff is a big Democrat contributor. I found no mention of Madoff's past support of the Democrats in any of the following stories.

Word has it too that many in the Hollywood Left were victimized by Madoff's schemes. Oh, the irony.

Chuck Schumer Compares Conservative Radio To Porn

Another example of the kind of shenanigans a filibuster-proof Senate will take part in. Liberals have failed miserably in radio, so if you can't beat 'em, get rid of 'em.

Chuck Schumer: Congress Should Only Accept Liberal Judges

In other words Democrats should only approve of leftist, abortion supporting, gay rights approving, card-carrying members of the ACLU. That sounds like what ol' Chuck is saying here:

New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.”

“We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Schumer told the American Constitution Society convention in Washington. “The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”

. . . Senators were too quick to accept the nominees’ word that they would respect legal precedents, and “too easily impressed with the charm of Roberts and the erudition of Alito,” Schumer said. “There is no doubt that we were hoodwinked,” said Schumer, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Republicans were also "hoodwinked" by Bill Clinton when he nominated ultra-liberal Ruth Ginsburg to SCOTUS in '92, but she still got in by a vote of 96-3. I'm sure one more Ginsburg clone on SCOTUS would give Chuck that "balance" he desperately so craves.

DeLay Indicted, But What About Schumer?

So Democrats are celebrating the indictment of Tom DeLay for conspiracy in a campaign scheme, but don't seem too concerned about allegations arising concerning members of D-NY senator Chuck Schumer's camp committing identity theft:

BALTIMORE -- Federal prosecutors have opened an inquiry into allegations that two Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee employees illegally tapped into Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit history.

WBAL-TV 11 News reporter David Collins reported the workers obtained the report in July while executing opposition research on the lieutenant governor. In June, the Republican lieutenant governor announced he had established an exploratory committee to explore a candidacy for the U.S. Senate (Full Story).

Paul D. Ellington, Steele's chief of staff, issued a statement late Wednesday afternoon in reaction to the allegations. "Lt. Gov. Steele was extremely disturbed to learn about the alleged criminal identity theft of his personal finance records by (a staff member of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.,) at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

"He was notified by the FBI that a federal criminal investigation is under way and has been asked not to comment on the specifics of the case. "He intends to honor this request and expects that those responsible for these actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

According to the FBI, two Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee employees illegally obtained Steele's credit report.

Those familiar with the incident, say Katie Barge and Lauren Weiner were working on opposition research in July. They found Steele's Social Security number in a court document and used it to obtain his credit report. "It's extremely unethical," said Evan Hendricks, the author of "Credit Scores Credit Reports." "This is a case of a couple very bright researchers, so smart, ending up doing the stupidest thing they could have done."

It would seem to me that Schumer (a staunch liberal who selfishly opposed the confirmation of John Roberts to the Supreme Court because well....Roberts isn't an abortion-supporting, moral-deficient, anti-God liberal) not only has some questions of his own to answer, but that Democrats who have publicly twisted the knife in DeLay's back, need to start checking themselves first.