It’s not very often that you’ll have the opportunity to hear something that can be said to resemble a little honesty coming from a Democrat, especially old Chuckie Schumer. Which begs the question, what might this slimy old f*ck be up to? Because it would now seem that, at least according to old Chuckie, the Democrats might have made a mistake by ‘passing’ Barry’s health-care law back in 2010 instead of, maybe, focusing more directly on helping the middle class. Gee, no shit. Ya think?
It was in a speech recently given in Washington that old Chuckie was heard to say, "Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them" in electing Obama and a Democratic Congress in 2008 amid a recession. Chuckie went on to say, "We took their mandate and put all our focus on the wrong problem -- health care reform." Actually what they did was to see an opportunity to go after something they’ve wanted since the days of FDR, and they went for it.
Now fast-forward a few years and suddenly we have old Chuckie saying that the Democrats should have addressed issues aiding the middle class to build confidence among voters before turning to revamping the health-care system. He said he opposed the timing of the health-care vote but was overruled by other party members. Funny thing, but that’s not quite how I remember things going down. I seem to remember old Chuckie as being rather instrumental in getting Obamacare shoved through Congress.
Chuckie said, "The plight of uninsured Americans and the hardships created by unfair insurance company practices certainly needed to be addressed." And he went on to say, "But it wasn’t the change we were hired to make" in the 2008 election. Chuckie’s comments represent a rather unusual public intra-party critique of the way Barry’s signature legislative achievement was enacted. He spoke at the National Press Club to analyze the results of this month’s election, in which Republicans took control of the Senate and increased their majority in the House.
Democrats’ pro-government posture "has the natural high political ground" when the middle class is frustrated as voters were before this month’s congressional election, Chuckie said. At the same time, he claimed, Republicans were encouraging distrust toward government. But he cautioned, "That doesn’t mean we always win." Then old Chuckie added, "When we don’t present a coherent, believable pro-government plan and message -- when we allow government to mess up -- we can easily lose."
Chuckie stated that in order to win in 2016, "Democrats must embrace government, not run away from it." He said, voter discontent will continue until one of the political parties convinces middle-class Americans that it has an agenda for helping them. But let’s be real, by the time the next election rolls around, we will have suffered through eight long years of watching our government getting bigger and more intrusive. And it should be painfully clear by that time, to just about anyone with a brain, that bigger government is not better government.
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