(From the It's my party and I'll cry if I want to files)
NY Senior Senator Chuck Schumer (D) was insanely bogus today on teevee:
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), speaking on ABC's "This Week," said he thought a fiscal cliff deal would come together after Jan. 3, when Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) is safely reelected speaker. "I am hopeful in the new year, after Speaker Boehner is elected -- reelected -- and he doesn't have to worry about those 50 [members of the Tea Party faction], that he will start working in a way like the Senate works, which is Democrats and Republicans together," said Schumer.
Earth to Chuck -
the Senate doesn't work, and we all know it. Thanks to the fiilbuster/cloture FUBAR, the Senate Republican minority blocked any regulation of carbon in the 2009-2010 session, and they made the Dodd-Frank law much weaker than it could have been. And the vacant judgeships. And on and on.
Oh yeah, and Senator Schumer is one those elite bi-partisan dudes that support Levin-McCain defeat-from-victory filibuster non-reform.
Still some gates that need crashing ....
Here is the august senator's phone number:
DC: 202-224-6542
NYC: 212-486-4430