Schumer Caught Telling Senators to Smear GOP, Boehner

So much for civil discourse. Sen. Charles E. Schumer briefly revealed his true face Tuesday as reporters listened to him instruct fellow Democrats in how to paint Republicans and House Speaker John Boehner as extremist Tea Party zealots in the budget debates.

“I always use the word extreme,” Schumer told his fellow Democrats. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”

Republicans were quick to blast the remarks.

“It just lends to the fact to what we’ve always known, that this is a political game," said Rep. Allen West on Fox News. "It’s about gamesmanship, it’s about maneuvering, and it really is about politics. It’s not about doing what is best for the American people, it’s not about reducing the size and scope of the federal government so we can get back to have long-term, sustainable economic and job growth. I think Charles Schumer showed his hand. Now it’s up to the American people to realize who are really the ones who are standing as an obstacle for us to move forward.”

West added that Schumer, Harry Reid, and Obama want a shutdown so that they can use it to blame Republicans, and position themselves for 2012.

The brief peek behind the curtain came as Schumer was about to start a conference call with reporters on Tuesday morning, according to The New York Times. The No. 3 Democrat in the Senate was apparently unaware that many of the reporters were already on the line when he began revealing what passes as strategic messaging for Democrats.

After thanking his colleagues — Barbara Boxer of California, Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland, Thomas R. Carper of Delaware and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut — for doing the budget bidding for the Senate Democrats, Schumer told them to portray John A. Boehner of Ohio, the speaker of the House, as painted into a box by the Tea Party, and to decry the spending cuts that he wants as extreme.

A minute or two into the talking-points tutorial, though, someone apparently figured out that reporters were listening, and silence fell, according to the Times.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/schu ... ode=BF9A-1

Well outdoor, when you can't find a way to use "racist" or "violent" or "greedy" into a whining tirade, EXTREME is an excellent catch-all for all the evils of those who don't walk the liberal path.

Yeah, like "job-killing", "socialist", "marxist", ad nauseum...

pot / kettle / black

The Dems and slanted mainstream media is peddling the minor Republican cuts as "drastic cuts". This is true if it is your department that is being cut back and you lose your job, but as a percentage of the trillion plus budget, it is very small potatoes.

I would like to lock Boehner, Obama, & Reid in a room and make them take on the biggest part of the budget, reducing the Social Security liabilty, by slowly increasing the age of eligibility, 1 year more for every 5 years. And means testing so that if someone is making 25K or 50K a year off SS, they would get benefits reduced by 10 and 20%.

LadyJazzer wrote: Yeah, like "job-killing", "socialist", "marxist", ad nauseum...

pot / kettle / black

This is the main point... “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”

I also put this under say it isn't so....

CriticalBill wrote:

LadyJazzer wrote: Yeah, like "job-killing", "socialist", "marxist", ad nauseum...

pot / kettle / black

This is the main point... “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”

The attack of the day/week/month/year is going to be "extreme". It's also the secret password to get inside the DNC offices until further notice......................

Yes, I wonder how many seconds it would take me to come up with GOP-caucus-dictated catchword-of-the-day for the past couple of years?

Like I said: pot / kettle / black

Kind of hard to drain the swamp when you add to, rather than subtract from, the swamp's contents, isn't it? Hard to proclaim you are out to change the culture in Washington when you continue to practice it, isn't it? How well do you think the slogans are going to play amongst the populace now that they have been exposed as nothing more than hollow and empty rhetoric aimed at consolidation of power and positioning for the next election? Think this was the change the voters were hoping for in 2008? Is it an example of change that they can believe in?

LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, I wonder how many seconds it would take me to come up with GOP-caucus-dictated catchword-of-the-day for the past couple of years?

Like I said: pot / kettle / black

Do you have recorded proof that the GOP caucus dictates what Republicans should say? I'll be waiting...... :Snooze