Years ago I had a good deal of respect for Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Honestly, it is getting harder and harder to remember why.
Here is the latest reason why, from the New York Post’s editorial, which details his in-your-face lies about Joe Biden’s cognitive state – which was diminished at the start of his presidency and fell further and further as it progressed to his present near-non compos mentis condition:
Sen. Chuck Schumer didn’t learn one of the primary lessons of the 2024 election: Americans resent getting fed insultingly obvious lies.
Interviewing Schumer on Sunday, NBC News’ Kristen Welker played a clip of him in February claiming President Biden’s “mental acuity is great” and calling any suggestion otherwise “right-wing propaganda.”
She prodded Chuck to explain himself: “What do you say to Americans who feel as though you and other Democrats mislead them about President Biden’s mental acuity?”
Someone with an ounce of shame (or sense) might take the opportunity to grovel or at least apologize, but Schumer opted for a fresh whopper: “We didn’t. Let’s look at President Biden. He’s had an amazing record . . . He’s a great guy, and when he stepped down he did it on his own because he thought it was better, not only for the Democratic Party, for America.”
Did it on his own . . . with Nancy Pelosi’s knife to his neck and the party’s donors on strike.
And still no acknowledgment that Biden had been clearly, painfully, publicly failing for months even as Schumer & Co. insisted he could do four more years (as an animatronic figure, maybe).
Sunday, Chuck dodged “I’m not going to speculate” on whether Biden could’ve served a second term, when months earlier he was part of chorus insisting Joe was “sharp,” “detail-oriented” and “on his game” and denouncing the “right-wing propaganda” to the contrary.
Even though White House aides have now admitted to The Wall Street Journal that they started hiding Joe’s mental decline on Day 1 of his presidency.
Even before the disastrous debate, the truth was obvious to anyone watching the prez at any public event.
Yes, Chuck in private reportedly told Joe to drop out of the race in July. But he’s still in public denial.
Whatever positive attributes Chuck Schumer once had, they have become non-existent now.
Just as Joe Biden has descended into semi-cognizance, Chuck Schumer has descended into an addiction to telling lies – overt, obvious lies – in the hope that the people he is trying to con are a bunch of SIPS: i.e. either too Stupid, and/or too Ignorant, and/or too Partisan to see those lies, no matter how obvious they are.
What an awful, demeaning way to think of the people he counts on for votes. And what an awful last chapter for this career politician; one he will – or, at least should – be ashamed of.
