In a podcast with ABC News' Jon Karl and Rick Klein, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer stated clearly that he is ready to “work” with Trump and they have been having regular conversations. Schumer noted that he’s already had four or five conversations with Trump on his cellphone. Schumer was passing by the president-elect’s new golf course in the Bronx during one conversation. “He said, ‘Well, they couldn’t build it for 29 years, and then I built it in a year,’” Schumer recounted, chuckling. Such good buddies!
Schumer also said he likes the sound of President-elect Trump’s proposal of a major infrastructure plan as long as it meets certain Democratic criteria. “We think it should be large. He’s mentioned a trillion dollars, I told him that sounded good to me,” Schumer told ABC News. “We’re not going to oppose something simply because it has the name Trump on it.” But Democrats will insist that the package not be, for example, all tax breaks to investors. Note the word “all.”
Schumer also said Democrats can find common ground with the incoming president on trade, saying he doesn’t agree with all of Trump’s proposed solutions but does agree with his ‘diagnosis’. “I’m more close to that than I am to Barack Obama,” he said. While most Republicans have stayed silent or agreed with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Schumer suggested there’s more bipartisan agreement behind closed doors. In other words, Democrats are preparing to surrender rather than fight.
Markos has posted warnings about Schumer before but this simply confirms it. He is not to be trusted. What is this guy thinking? That the GOP will give credit to Democrats for any successes? That the GOP will stop attacking and lying about Dems? Its mind boggling how Democratic Leadership never listens to their base and stabs us in the back over and over again. And they wonder why working class whites desert the party? Or why Dem voters don’t show up at the polls in off years? Who wants to reward these imbeciles? Schumer was just re-elected so that smug asshole doesn’t care one bit. But if the party follows his leadership you can kiss goodbye getting a majority again for at least another 15 years.
