Impact Of The Shutdown

End of the shutdown, of course, and the effect that the end and how it happened would have on leader Chuck Schumer with many slash most of the pundits that I saw talking about it, predicting that he simply will fade into the darkness and will not be the leader in 2027 because that's just how mad everybody is with him. However, he doesn't want to leave because they never want to leave, do they? They never want to leave. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is the target of Liberal Fury for a second time this year. His Democratic colleagues are not yet joining the pile on. The New York Democrat is facing calls to resign from his leadership post from a coalition of progressive outside groups, House Democrats, and even some Senate hopefuls over the chamber's approval of a bipartisan shutdown deal that he did not even vote for. That is a U-turn from March when he assumed responsibility for helping advance a GOP-written government funding stopgap that sparked weeks of intense criticism and calls for his ouster from Democrats outside the Senate. This time, Chuck Schumer joined with most of the caucus to blast the agreement for not meeting Democrats top demand and extension for expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Outside of the Senate, that's a distinction without a difference. to Chuck Schumer's critics who believe that he should have done more to stop eight Democratic caucus members from defecting. Inside the Senate, views are more nuanced. Quote, Chuck didn't want this to happen, and I sat with him in rooms as he tried to stop this from occurring. This has got to be a caucus-wide conversation, said Senator Chris Murphy, from Connecticut, a fierce critic of the deal. Because of this... Because if this is really how 10 to 15 members are going to regularly conduct business, it's hard for any leader to stop that from happening. The liberal pushback comes as Chuck Schumer 74 faces larger questions about his long-term political future. Progressives are dreaming of a 2008 primary challenge, and he has repeatedly declined to say whether or not he will run for his sixth Senate term. Instead, Chuck Schumer insists that he is keeping his focus on the 26 midterm elections and a chance of once again becoming majority leader. You know, it's funny to look at that too, by the way, looking at the timing and the calendar of it all. If he's 74 now, he would run for reelection in 28. So you're talking about being 77. If he wins, you know, he gets sworn in. Maybe when he's 77, 78, he's going to be there for six more years. He'd be in his 80s, 84 by the time he's really getting out of there. That's stupid. I just, I know I've said this before, but why? Do you want to do that at the twilight of your life? Why do you want to be that busy while doing nothing? I mean, take each of those individually, right? Why do you want to do nothing? Why do you want to be that busy? Why do you want to be that busy doing nothing? I don't get it. Why do you want to be hated by everyone? Because you are. I mean, you just are. It's very rare that a politician can exist in some of these top jobs without being hated, although I will say this.

weirdly, so far, and give a time, you never know, but so far Mike Johnson and John Thune, while they're certainly not loved by the people on the Democratic side of the aisle, have not attracted this widespread hatred that you have seen for members or leaders of both parties over the years recently. So, you know, if you are... If you are, say, Harry Reid, you are Mitch McConnell, you are Chuck Schumer. It's not just the other party that dislikes you. You seem like a hard-nosed political operative opportunist who sucks. And people personality-wise don't seem to like these people. Maybe it's a required personality for the job. I don't know, but they don't like them. Speaker of the House. Speaker of the House is a little bit lower profile by comparison, but it's not like Newton Gingrich was widely beloved by the whole world when he was in that job. I mean, he had to be tossed out by his own caucus a couple years after he won the Speaker's gavel. You know, so it's, you know, what, Denny Hester, nobody knew he was there, but he was secretly a criminal. You know, John Boehner, not well-beloved, you know? I mean, did that many people have a huge problem with, uh, with Speaker Ryan? No, but his own party hated him, which is interesting. So, I don't know, they're just unpopular positions, right? And somehow Mike Johnson and John Thune, at least to this point, have not really attracted that level of hate. And I think it might be because their personalities are just... not as hateable, weirdly. And I say that in a completely non-partisan way. I think Mike Johnson just looks like a happy dope. He just does. He's actually, he's done a fair job of keeping that caucus together and actually managing a pretty tight minority, or majority, excuse me, in the house. So he's proved to be a little bit more deft as, as a leader of the Republicans in the house than I expected. But, you know, he looks like a happy guy. He just does. John Thune. John Thune looks like a block of marble. Somebody chiseled the guy out of stone. But he looks generally a little amiable. So he's not Harry Reid with that snarly face of his. He's not Mitch McConnell looking like a frog that's looking off into the distance somewhere. It's not Chuck Schumer with the worst hair plugs I've ever seen in my entire life. Always with that weird attitude of his. It's a totally different vibe. So anyway, but I still don't understand why you would be doing this for that long. I mean, at some point, you've already, I mean, like Mitch McConnell's a great example, right? Like, why was that guy? Why did he hold on as long as he did? I mean, he's literally freezing in front of everybody and having these weird health episodes in public, which makes it clearly look like you've stuck around too long and that you're clinging to power with, like, grim death and for your own benefit and everybody wants you gone and everything else. Like, why is that your legacy? Like, what are you doing?

So I don't know why Chuck would want it. But at least for now, according to Politico in this article that I'm reading through, the critics and the people that are calling for him to go away are almost universally not in the United States Senate, not in the Democratic caucus of the Senate. It's members of the House, it's progressive voices outside, and it's some Senate candidates, but it's not the people inside the room. Interestingly.