Schumer: Immigration Reform Stalled by Tea Party Racism

by Breitbart News 23 Jan 2014, 2:29 PM PDT
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On Thursday, speaking at the John Podesta-founded Center for American Progress, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that if it were not for the Tea Party, immigration reform would have passed long ago. He blamed Tea Party opposition to immigration reform on racism. "In a pre-tea party world, the Senate immigration bill would have been welcomed by House Republicans," Schumer stated. "However, the tea party rank and file know it's a different America. It looks different; it prays different; it works different. This is unsettling and angering to some."

Schumer added that discomfort with demographic change – racism – explained “why so many on the right vehemently opposed the Senate immigration bill, a bill that actually embodies many conservative, non-governmental principals: reducing our deficit by billions, growing our economy, creating jobs and spurring new entrepreneurial activity.”

Republicans in the House have not pushed forward the Senate’s immigration bill, arguing that it does little to secure the border while essentially granting amnesty to the 12 million illegal immigrants living within the United States.

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Chuck Schumer needs to be tested for drug or alcohol abuse ... something isn't right with this man ... other than being completely goofy, a loose cannon and a simpleton... there is something else going on

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Maybe immigration reform is stalled by 90 million Americans looking for a job!

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This bill is is going to affect the entire economy and the working class.

Current Layoff / Closing List http://www.dailyjobcuts.com

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Broke Ass AmeriKa is waking up ... whodathunkit

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Obama had a super majority in his 1st 2 years in office, so why didn't Obama , chuckie and company pass an immigration reform. answer ,because they hate Hispanics and they just want to use them as a wedge issue to try 2 win elections. How pathetic that the Socialists use human beings in this way.

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I don't know about Obama and these Dem overlords but down on the streets of the real world there is some intense racial conflict between blacks and Latinos, despite the frenzied efforts of Democrat operatives to gin up a "united against the (white) enemy" mentality. That fueled the anti-white "affirmative action" policies but now that they are running out of white Holy Cows to sacrifice it's getting a little bit difficult (white children are only 20% of their age group in California now). Racial violence between these groups is routine in California but the corrupt media buries it--one rare exception being the item in the LA Times last Spring about the last black family on their block in Compton being run out--by Mexican gangsters. Of course there was NO notice paid to this by the Usual Suspects--the NAACP, California AG, nor the US DOJ, much less the entirety of the "news" networks--you can imagine what they would do with this story if they could stick it on white perps.
The left-wing power elitists are just plain sick. They are so insane for unlimited power that even outright racial terrorism doesn't count if the identities of the victims and perpetrators don't match their political objectives. The same week the media noids decided that Trayvon Martin was "the" story a few other things happened: a white teen was set on fire in Kansas City by blacks; a Mexican teen in Palmdale California was stomped and had his teeth kicked out by a gang of 7 black teens, who videoed the beating for fun and planned on posting in on the internet; the video was seized as evidence in the case. Did you hear of either of these cases? The media usually loves video, right?

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this is how you bring Black America back into the Republican Party; you stop the Democrats from giving Amnesty and bring JOBS back to black America

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If America would have to choose between Chuck Schumer or Thomas Jefferson for Leadership

I do believe the good citizens would see that Thomas Jefferson makes Schumer look like a mentally challenged fool in comparison and America would revert BACK TO Constitutional Government instead of Schumers New World Order

Just Say'n

by Tony Lee 26 Jan 2014, 12:56 PM PDT
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), once part of the "Gang of Eight" in the Senate that wrote the immigration bill that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, believes that conservatives are opposed to amnesty because they don't want America to become "less white."

"Yes, things have changed. White Anglo-Saxon men are not exclusively running the country anymore," he said Thursday. "President Obama lost the white male vote 35 to 62 percent yet he recaptured the presidency – by 5 million votes and a resounding electoral college margin."

Schumer said the changing demographics also "[explain] why so many on the right vehemently opposed the Senate immigration bill."

"In a pre-tea party world, the Senate immigration bill would have been welcomed by House Republicans," he said. "However, the tea party rank and file know it's a different America. It looks different; it prays different; it works different. This is unsettling and angering to some."

What Schumer did not mention is that the fiercest opponents to comprehensive immigration reform in Congress, like Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and outside of Congress, like pro-enforcement advocate D.A. King, have repeatedly emphasized that one of their primary reasons for opposing amnesty is the devastating impact it would have on the wages of working-class Americans of all backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. Groups like The Black American Leadership Alliance, for instance, have held numerous marches and rallies in opposition to the amnesty legislation because of the detrimental impact it would have on wages, particularly among minorities.

Schumer also noted the strength of the Tea Party, saying that immigration reform legislation would have passed a long time ago if not for the Tea Party movement.

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Notable former aides to Schumer include former US congressman Anthony Weiner and current New York state senator Daniel Squadron

Schumer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Selma (née Rosen) and Abraham Schumer.[4] His family is Jewish, descended from immigrants from Russia, Poland, and Austria.[5] He attended public schools in Brooklyn, scoring 1600 on the SAT, and graduated as the valedictorian from James Madison High School in 1967.[6] Schumer competed for Madison High on the It's Academic television quiz show.[7]

He attended Harvard College, where he became interested in politics and campaigned for Eugene McCarthy in 1968.[8] After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor with honors in 1974. Schumer passed the New York State Bar Exam in early 1975, but never practiced law, entering politics instead.

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Notable former aides to Schumer include former US congressman Anthony Weiner and current New York state senator Daniel Squadron

Schumer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Selma (née Rosen) and Abraham Schumer.[4] His family is Jewish, descended from immigrants from Russia, Poland, and Austria.[5] He attended public schools in Brooklyn, scoring 1600 on the SAT, and graduated as the valedictorian from James Madison High School in 1967.[6] Schumer competed for Madison High on the It's Academic television quiz show.[7]

He attended Harvard College, where he became interested in politics and campaigned for Eugene McCarthy in 1968.[8] After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor with honors in 1974. Schumer passed the New York State Bar Exam in early 1975, but never practiced law, entering politics instead.

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Timothy P. Carney on Chuck Schumer: Voice of the little man, courtier of plutocrats

BY TIMOTHY P. CARNEY |
JANUARY 26, 2014 AT 9:23 AM

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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., smiles as members of the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" gather...

The favorite senator of Wall Street and K Street explained to a liberal D.C. audience last week how to defang the Tea Party: offer a populist message that splits the grassroots from their wealthy donors.

Republicans should listen to this counsel, and turn the tables on Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York.

Schumer argued at the Center for American Progress on Thursday that the Tea Party is built on a foundation of deception: “Wealthy, hard Right, selfish, narrow” elites have fooled regular Tea Partiers into hating government.

Schumer’s premise is that Big Government is the friend of the regular guy, and only the selfish wealthy elites benefit from more economic freedom.
It seems relevant, then, that Schumer — a dedicated liberal — is the most important congressional Democrat when it comes to fundraising. Schumer headed the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the 2006 and 2008 elections.

In 2008, Schumer’s DSCC raised more than $160 million, the all-time record for a Senate campaign committee. The DSCC’s $280 million raised over two cycles was 60 percent more than the National Republican Senatorial Committee raised over that same stretch.

Schumer, to fund his own elections, taps deep into the plutocracy he condemns. In the 2010 election, Schumer ran basically unopposed. Still he was the No. 1 Senate recipient of money from the insurance industry, private equity, hedge funds, Wall Street, real estate, the cable industry, and hospitals. Schumer was No. 3 in money from lobbyists, Hollywood, and mortgage bankers.

Schumer's Senate office seems to have its own revolving door that exits straight onto K Street. He is tied for third place, in all of Congress, for having the most staffers in the Center for Responsive Politics' revolving door database. Only Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., beat him on the revolving door scoreboard.

And Schumer knows how to profit from this revolving door action. In January 2007, when his party took charge of the Senate, he gathered some of America's wealthiest hedge-fund managers in a Manhattan restaurant and told them, in effect, start lobbying and giving money to politicians.

A few months later, Schumer's top banking staffer, Carmencita Whonder left for the K Street firm Brownstein Hyatt, which immediately picked up a handful of hedge fund and private equity clients. Whonder also became a volunteer fundraiser for Schumer, while other hedge fund millionaires raised money for Schumer's DSCC.

Schumer’s lucrative K Street game sheds light on Schumer’s other tactic for taking on the Tea Party: pass strict campaign finance regulations that rein in activist groups that want to run political ads.

The problem with outside groups engaging in political debate is that they take their case to the American people, instead of taking it to senators. How does its help Schumer if no lobbyists are wining and dining him, delivering him PAC checks, and hiring his staff?

So maybe conservatives shouldn’t put too much stock in Schumer’s comments about those evil wealthy folks trying to rig policy to their benefit.

But still, Schumer’s arguments can teach conservatives something important.

Schumer understands that politics is largely about showing voters that you are on their side. This effort has two parts: First, fight for the regular guy. Second, fight against the special interests. Conservatives need to beat Schumer at this.
Schumer thinks Democrats can split of some Tea Partiers with a bill to extend emergency unemployment benefits. Republicans mostly accept this extension if Congress can pay for its $6.4 billion cost. Here’s one way Republicans could try to to pay for it: kill $6.4 billion of corporate welfare.

Would Democrats really be able to vote "no" on a bill that extended emergency unemployment benefits, and paid for it by taking $6.4 billion out of the Energy Department’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program? Or cut a federal boondoggles such as high-speed rail and fossil-fuel research. Trim a few billion here, a few billion there, and you’ve got the bill paid for.

Of course, Democrats would hate trimming corporate welfare for their clients. Schumer and friends would suddenly find themselves choosing between helping the unemployed, and sticking by their party’s donors.

Republicans could beat Schumer at his divide-and-conquer populist game —if Republicans are willing to actually battle corporate welfare themselves.

Timothy P. Carney, the Washington Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted attcarney@washingtonexaminer.com. His column appears Sunday and Wednesday on washingtonexaminer.com.

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