“Extremist” Charles Schumer Caught Giving Marching Orders to Fellow Big Spending Libs
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:10 PM
Senator Charles Schumer spilled the beans today when he told fellow democrats to call the meager GOP spending cuts “extreme.” Schumer didn’t know reporters were already listening in on the call.
That’s the dem game plan. To call any cuts to their historic and irresponsible budget “extreme.”
Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Senate Democrats like Schumer added over One Trillion Dollars to the Federal Budget in the last 4 years.
That’s at least a 30% increase in federal spending in just 3 years.
Democrats LOVE to spend your money. It’s what they live for.
And, now we know that if you suggest that they cut back on their record deficit spending they will call you “extreme.”
The Washington Examiner reported:
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Democratic Senate leadership, got on a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning without realizing the reporters were already listening in. Schumer thought he was on a private line with four Democratic senators who were to talk with reporters about the current budget stalemate.
Schumer instructed the group, made up of Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Tom Carper of Delaware, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, to tell reporters that the GOP is refusing to negotiate.
He told the group to make sure they label the GOP spending cuts as “extreme.”
“I always use extreme,” Schumer said. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use.”
Someone must have finally told Schumer that the media were listening and he stopped talking midsentence.
Here’s a bit more of what he said about House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, according to my notes.
“The main thrust is basically that we want to negotiate and we want to come up with a compromise but the Tea Party is pulling Boehner too far over to the right and so far over that there is no more fruitful negotiations,” Schumer said on the call. “The only way we can avoid a shutdown is for Boehner to come up with a reasonable compromise and not just listen to what the Tea Party wants. “
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wodun commented:
Not a surprise. The messaging has been consistent from politician to politician for some time now.
Funny to see him get caught red handed though.
Question is can the Republicans capitalize on the gaffe?
Auntie Em commented:
Dems are ignornant morons, well known fact. However, the Tea Party controls Congress and didn’t know it. Thanks Schumer! We are much more powerful than we thought.
Redwine commented:
Shmucky also said, “Boehner’s in a box.”
Note to Boehner – Wake up. You’re being played. Grow a pair. It’s time you took up the conservative cause with passion.
GregInSeattle commented:
Man, how can we elect such stupid people? We may well be doomed.
squeaky commented:
CommentsGreat Moments in Chuck Schumer History
by Mac Johnson
07/15/2008
California based IndyMac Bank became the second largest bank failure in United States history Friday after a bank run straight out of “It’s a Wonderful Life” was triggered by publicity-seeking Senator Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D, NY
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27505#
StrangernFiction commented:
Wake up. You’re being played. Grow a pair. It’s time you took up the conservative cause with passion.
You’re asking the impossible Redwine. As with most of the DC GOP, Boehner simply doesn’t have it in him.
squeaky commented:
the party that has benefitted from the dirty work of code pink thinks that boehner should sideline the tea party…
[Top-ranking Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer is urging Republican House Speaker John Boehner to ditch the Tea Party and join a coalition that includes Democrats to work around conservative lawmakers on spending cuts.]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110314/pl_dailycaller/schumertoboehnerditchtheteapartyjoinus
Chisum commented:
Republicans Thankful for Sen. Schumer’s Faux Pax
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/03/29/republicans-thankful-sen-schumers-faux-pax
RedBeard commented:
Republicans control the House, and therefore the purse strings. All they have to do is tell the lefties to sit down and shut up. But that would require Republicans with guts and conviction, and those seem to be in the minority, judging by the earsplitting silence coming from most of them.
Redwine commented:
Yeah, I know, SF.
Arghhhhhhhhhh.
8675309 commented:
Why is it a problem for the press to hear him discussing strategy? Isn’t it the same strategy that the press discussed in their morning briefing?
Daniel commented:
Actually, there should always be a live microphone adjacent to every elected representative every time they wake up.
And maybe also to find out if they talk during their sleep.
donh commented:
Chucckkyyyyy…You forgot to lock the reporters in the closet.
Joe's Garage commented:
I’m with RedWine on his Note To Boehner comment. If Schumer’s little revelation doesn’t put a foot up the asses of the GOP then nothing will.
michigans broke commented:
Schumer is a two face s.o.b. The only thing on his mind (what little there is of it) is how to get the next democrat in office. They have spent this country into bankrupcy. They cater to the special interest, and try to control this America, through social programs, and buying off anyone for votes/ My question is, who is going to pay his large salary, health care(which he wants to force on the public, but doesn’t and won’t take for himself) Take a hinit chucky>>>>> two words, term limts!
lynched1 commented:
Arrogance breeds it’s own failure. Congratulations Schumer, you tard.
donh commented:
Boehner is in a Box….The Cowardly Lion is afraid of his own shadow. … He would sooner jump out a window than find courage to do one thing right by the American people. Tea party did not hand Boehner the House for meaningless symbolic appearance only gestures like reading the Constitution on the floor, and running votes sure to die in the Senate… You got the Gavel now GO take the broomstick away from Pelosi…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXhaBHGhUOI
David_V. commented:
People, this is what a man that can’t think for himself looks and sounds like.
Michael commented:
USDA Secretary Vilsack was in St. Louis yesterday and used virtually the same words as Schumer to explain to employees why there was a budget impasse. He used the word extreme to describe the tea party faction in the House. He also explained how the last continuing resolution had little impact on USDA. The cuts merely took away millions that were sitting idle in obsolete program accounts – yeah, gov’t bureaucrats know how to budget wonderfully to keep themselves in business.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i’ll tell schumer what is extreme. the taxpayers are extremely broke. you liberals have busted the bank. thats the BANKS, our bank accounts and the kid’s piggy banks. we don’t have anymore money and the guy wants to run up more debt. it goes to show how important buying votes is to the liberals getting elected. nobody that isn’t getting paid off will vote for them and they know it.
bitterclinger commented:
Rush seemed to think this wasn’t a surprise. He said Schmucky’s been around long enough to know better. He considered it an address to the stenographer media.
As for Boehner, he looks bored as hell and ready to fall asleep. The only thing rumor has it that he IS passionate about is booting the Tea Party/TPM reps.
Freddy commented:
Looking at that budget arc I have my own line in the sand drawn for 2012. The 2012 budget MUST be less than 3 trillion. No exceptions are possible.
retire05 commented:
Let’s face it; Schumer is convinced that the lamestream media has done such a hit job on the TEA Party that using it against Republicans is a brilliant tactic. After all, we have all been exposed to the violence, the hate rhetoric, and the anger of the TEA Party, right? Oh, wait, that was the unions protesting in Wisconsin. My bad.
What Schumer really proves is that he sold his soul for keeping power and not tending to the business of “we the people”. How dare the TEA Partiers think that in a representative republic, Americans should have a voice in what our government does. How did the Democrats fail in to educate us that they know what is good for us far better than we do.
I know that others are as disgusted as I am that Schumer cares more about slamming Republicans than he does about keeping our nation solvent.
Rock commented:
Schemer is a one trick pony, worthless to the nation and a tool for Socialist.
All this was on a open line with media listing, and yet nothing crossing Pravdas lines? You would think at some point their knees would get sore, or is that why MSNBC opted to lean forward.
grizzlybare commented:
Schumer…..sleaze personified.
AuntieMadder commented:
So, basically, Schumer said that Boehner should listen to him and get back to business as usual instead of listening to his constituents. Nice…
thebardofmurdock commented:
Senator Charles Schumer: God of War
With apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley, author of Ozymandias
I met a well-known pundit in D.C.
Who said: Within the Senate leadership
There is against us and our liberty,
One man who carries in his iron grip
The life and death of legislative acts
And temper to destroy, instead of lose,
All those whose voice and vote he feels he lacks
Or those who would his dark demands refuse.
And on his ornate Senate office door
In Latin script of longhand does appear:
“My name is Charles Schumer, God of War:
My bidding do, or I your name will smear.”
And so has he defamed the GOP
With calumny discharged both night and day,
As those uncompromising and extreme:
For they would budget what we can repay.
Blue Collar Todd commented:
Schumer needs to re-read Jesus’ teaching on hypocrisy. An extremist calling others extreme is a good example.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/03/senator-chuck-schumer-accuses-republicans-of-being-extreme-hypocrite.html
Schumer celebrates the end of traditional values and calls for gay marriage to the law of the land. That sounds pretty extreme to me.
Beef commented:
The Republican response so far has been: ” No we’re not (extreme)” instead of “look at these slimy bastards, all they do is try to score political points, they have no interest in passing a budget, and no interest in negotiating in good faith. Schumer elucidated the same strategy Reid was using yesterday – say Tea Party and extremist over and over again, drive a wedge between Republican factions and try to paint Republicans as extremists to independents”.
Leftists play to win by any means available. This little window into their seamy world should be what’s getting attention. Eff Schumer, eff Reid, and eff the democrat party!
Andreas K. commented:
All it would take would be one Republican to get the national debts, deficits and tax rates of a few random EU countries. And then show this to the American people with the words “This is what’s coming for you if we continue the Dem way.”
Gary commented:
Oh Squeaky
you beat me to it.
I had stock in IndyMac.
And this guy supposedly had a perfect SAT score.
Message from IndyMac shareholders to Sen. Schumer:
Chuck you too!
Hello Dicky commented:
Where is the sound bite ? DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE SOUND BITE ???
Chisum commented:
Hello Dicky,
Here you go.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/for-the-record-heres-the-caught-on-audio-clip-of-sen-schumers-extreme-moment/
commonman commented:
There must have been a Fox reporter in the room some where are we would never be hearing this…….
Rock commented:
Well what do you know, I hear Morning Joe actually ran this story this AM, I might have to say they went and proved me wrong, but I think I’ll wait to see if they called it for what it was, or just glossed over it.
burt commented:
The Canadian dollar was worth 70 cents US now it is worth over a dollar US. Inflation is here!
Militant Conservative commented:
WE (TPM) are in the process of cleaning up the republican RINO party.
Then we come after the opposition (democrats).
WE THE PEOPLE have had enough.
powder is dry
pj commented:
Can’t wait for Schumer and dem-o-rats wake up and find they are irrelevant under the Obama’s White House.That should stoke their big fat egos……………