Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Schumer: "Dems erred with ObamaCare"

After passing the stimulus, Democrats should have continued to propose middle class-oriented programs and built on the partial success of the stimulus,” he said.
He said the plight of uninsured Americans caused by “unfair insurance company practices” needed not be addressed but it wasn’t the change that people wanted when they elected Barack Obama as president.

“Americans were crying out for an end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs; not for changes in their health care,” he said.
Chuck Schumer to the rescue...
Schumer's concession is a striking change of tone from what he said shortly after the passage of the healthcare law, when he predicted that ObamaCare would turn out to be a strong political issue for his party.

“I predict … by November those who voted for health care will find it an asset, those who voted against it will find it a liability,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in March of 2010.

18 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

We knew this already. Discussed it at length. His numbers must be bad.

He's read the writing on the wall.
A disembodied spooky hand that had him dumbfounded wrote: "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin."

That's Aramaic for "you're fucked"

A pun about coins being half the value of the other and the Medes at the time dividing the kingdom in half.

But speaking about supernatural things and interpreting dreams, I've been having the oddest dreams in series involving both my parents and my living sibs together. Last night they helped me across a bridge spanning a river that I dared on my own before they suddenly appeared. They stayed behind me as I persisted along. The bridge worsened as I went to little more than wobbly rope bridge as seen in adventure movies where the planks on the bottom fall out as the whole sketchy bridge sways over the water. What is odd about their presence is their stoic equanimity that does not characterize them in life. In each case I wake up comforted with an abiding sense of having been visited.

Trooper York said...

That's spooky Chip.

What do you think it means?

Trooper York said...

Schumer always looks out for number one.

Rats jumping ship.

Nothing new here.

Chip Ahoy said...

New theory.

I think I figured out why everyone on FOX, hosts and guests, sound like stuttering, stammering Porky Pigs.

A producer is speaking into their earpiece, "30 seconds, wrap it up, 20 seconds, make your point, 10 seconds, get to it already, 5 seconds to hard break."

The airplane movie headphones thing with Bart led me to this conclusion. It is nearly impossible to keep things straight when something running counter to your thoughts are delivered directly into you ears. It is nearly impossible to ignore it because you want to process the information while persisting in delivering your own story. Result: stammering while driving right through.

Chip Ahoy said...

Trooper, something psychological, no doubt.

In real life, I learned later that my parents really did follow me in cases I was unaware. They told me later they followed me in their own car. Twice as full grown adult.

Once when I told them I was cleaning my car to exchange it for a new one. But I didn't expect the exchange to go through. The numbers did not make sense. Dad told me, "Tell 'em a sob story."

I rejected his advice. I said, "Come on, Dad, nobody does that. It's not how business is done."

I had $10,000 available at the time but I did not want to use it for a car. I made myself a limit of $4,000 max.

They offered an exchange that did not make sense mathematically. I expected the deal to fail.

At length, after the salesman went back and forth to his manager multiple times, as they do, to my surprise he accepted $4,000 with my piece of shit car in exchange for a Cutlass Supreme. It was a very nice car.

Finalizing, he added the tax onto that.

I said, "I told you my limit."

He said, "surely you can handle the tax."

I said, "Yes, but I am not going to do that to myself. Look. I told you my max is $4,000. I don't know how I can be clearer than that. It's all I have to spend for a car (lie) I am recently divorced (lie) and all I have to my name is a single plate that came with laundry soap, and one fork (lie) and this piece of shit car (lie) and this t-shirt on my back (lie.) I tugged my own shirt.

A sob story. Just like my dad suggested. I felt like such an ass.

The salesman said, "Too bad."

I didn't expect a sale anyway. It was only an exercise in futility. I knew that in advance. I stood up and thanked the salesman for his time. We shook hands and I departed.

Wait!

As I was walking away.

The salesman said, "I'll try one more time."

He returned with an okay from his manager.

I told all this to my dad, that his sob story idea worked. He said, "I know."

"How?"

"I was there."

"What?"

"I followed you."

"Where were you?"

"I was hiding behind the plants. I saw the whole thing."

!

That's one instance. There is another.

I was annoyed at the time. But after he died I realized what a tremendous parent he was. Truly. The sort of parent that poor souls like Michael Brown never had. And what a dick his step father still is. Same with Travon Martin. My dad did instruct us all how to respond with cops if and when we are ever pulled over. Powerful advice I carry with me still. Those two lads had none such. And I pity their whole situation. Ultimately brought about by their parent's adherence to Party that seeks nothing less than power to themselves.

But I sense an awakening.

Yesterday I listened to black preacher decked out in flamboyant purple ecclesiastic garb. His sermon was about Family Planning and the damage that institution has done to their race. Amens all around. I would love to have a recording of that in video form to show you. I was watching and thinking, "Finally!"

Trooper York said...

Chip that story you just told is great. Anyone of us who were also blessed with great fathers recognize it. It is worthy of a post in of itself.

You are right about Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin never having the chance to have a father like that. It is a pity. A crime even.

But that is what the liberals and progressives and feminists want. They put no value on fathers. This is the result.

Amartel said...

Schumer's on to the next, whoever the DNC nominates for 2016. Change of tone due to change of horse. Also, "the Dems erred." Not Chucky. Chucky din't err. Chucky's on the side of the Americans "crying out" for a government that prioritizes their needs over its own.

edutcher said...

Considering Chuckie is one of the people responsible for the current mess, in that he helped shepherd the various bills through the Senate, the question to be asked is why did he never object to the way things were being done if he thought they were so wrong-headed?

Seems to me, given he's been mentioned as a successor to Dingy Harry, he just hanged himself.

Trooper York said...

Schumer always looks out for number one.

Wasn't it Frank Lautenmouth who said, "Never get between Chuck Schumer and an open mic"?

Unknown said...

The answer, of course, more big government!

Yeah - that's not insane or anything.

Unknown said...

HEH

"The Schumer-Gruber ads in 2016 are going to be delightful."

Unknown said...

Passing a shitty unread law on party line vote in the dead of night didn't work out for the American people?

Shadenfraud - it werks!

Methadras said...

Chuck Schumer is a maggot. He has the credibility of a rat fink bastard.

AllenS said...

"Dems erred with ObamaCare"

Ya, think?




























Fr Martin Fox said...

Did he pronounce "erred" correctly?

It's "URed," not "aired."

Or so my mother taught me.

Joe Schmoe said...

Rahm Emanuel said the same thing in 2009.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

A poem for Schumer and an interpretation for him from me. Hey....you guys took the wrong road. No going back.


The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Can someone answer this for me: Are LPNs real nurses or more like EMTs?

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Aren't LPNs the ones who shave you when you are having a hernia operation?