How Schumer's Middle Class Obsession Drove Dem Wins
Chuck Schumer, the brash New York senator, helped drive the Democrats' recent rise to power with what he says is a critical insight about the American...
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Duplicity Grows in Brooklyn: Chuck Schumer's Edifice Complex
Tom Watson | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
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That Schumer should appear in downtown Brooklyn, media in tow, claiming that Governor Carey doesn't qualify for the naming honors should qualify our senior Senator for a one-way ticket out of his home borough.
Blago and Me
Neil McCarthy | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
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In electoral politics we want to avoid the rich and famous in favor of the modest but qualified. But we make it impossible for anyone but the rich and famous to get the jobs and then keep them.
A Tame Regulator for the SEC
Robert Kuttner | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
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If you have not heard of Mary Schapiro, it is because she has not been much of a player, much less a crusader, in the struggle for reform. She is the kind of Democratic appointment that allows Wall Street to breathe a huge sigh of relief.
Sell The Seat To Caroline
James Mulvaney | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
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I'm not suggesting any criminal activity. I'm not suggesting you pocket the proceeds of a sale of the NY senate seat. Just have the candidate deposit it right in the treasury.
Caroline Kennedy: Paying to Play
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
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If Caroline can cough up around $70 million, she gets to play, but if she was a poor gal named Smith or Gonzalez with an impressive resume and a noble spirit, she'd get her little a** booted to the curb.
The Blind Man and the Elephant is the Media on the Financial Crisis
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media
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In 2008, the financial media was saddled with an enormous task: explaining the unexplainable. The subprime mortgage mess, which began life as a seemin...
Bailing Out Dan Quayle
Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business
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The battle over the bailout of some segments of the US auto industry has become increasingly defined in terms of class, but this hides the fact that the same type of players will benefit from both bailouts.
Fran Drescher for Senator Shmenator
Howie Greene | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
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She's a cancer survivor. She's a great fundraiser. She speaks Spanish, Yiddish and some form of English. Fran Drescher is a lot of things -- but the next Senator from New York?
Sen. Menendez Named Head Of DSCC
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
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Sen. Bob Menendez was named the next chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Tuesday morning, taking the reigns from his wildly succe...
Schumer Stepping Down From Campaign Post
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday he is giving up his job running the Senate Democrats' national campaign efforts after two successf...
What Centrist Huh? Beyond Obama's 2.5 Million Jobs
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
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Obama may well assume a fairly radical solution to the economic problems facing the nation, one that eclipses the craziest notions dreamt up by the progressive fringe.
Dems: Congress Could Back Stimulus Plan Up To $700 Billion (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
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UPDATE: President-elect Obama urged swift passage by Congress of a massive two-year spending and tax-cutting recovery program which significantly exce...
What Makes For a Great Secretary of State?
Matt Littman | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
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Here's what you need to be a great Secretary of State: a massive ego. Would Hillary Clinton have the potential to be a great Secretary of State? Absolutely.
Durbin Re-Elected As Majority Whip
Posted 11.19.2008 | Chicago
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Senator Dick Durbin was re-elected as Majority Whip, the Senate's second-highest leadership post. Read the release from his office: U.S. Sen. Dick Du...
Schumer, DSCC Predict Victory In Tight Oregon Race
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
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On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer predicted to several Democratic insiders that Jeff Merkley will unseat incumbent Sen. Gordon Smith in Oregon, multipl...
The Notoriously Cheap Democratic Senate
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
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On the cusp of winning a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority, Democratic Senators are hoarding their personal campaign chests, demonstrating more self i...
Schumer And Ensign Spar On Palin, Robocalls, Senate Races
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
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The respective leaders of the Republican and Democrat Senatorial campaign committees clashed on a wide variety of topics Tuesday morning, but perhaps ...
Hank and the Swedish Model
Howard A. Rodman | Posted 10.12.2008 | Business
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Can Hank have seen the light? Is he going to do what must be done? Is he going to take his Big Pile of Cash and buy us some banks?
Chuck Schumer: "Tell Sen. McCain To Get Out Of Town"
MSNBC | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
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During a speech on the Senate floor this morning, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) urged President Bush to "respectfully tell Sen. McCain to get out of town. He...
Schumer's Bailout Proposal Divides Economists, Interests Obama
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics
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One of the more interesting moments of this morning's Senate Banking Committee hearing with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke came when Sen. Chuck Schumer...
Financial Bailout = Patriot Act Redux: Under Cover of Crisis, the Republic is Lost
Pete Cenedella | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business
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Forgive me if I smell a similar attempt by the Republicans to ram a lopsided, ready-made and offensive prescription down the throats of the American people under the cover of crisis.
McCain Medical Records, Cancer History, Raised By Top Dems
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
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With three prominent Democratic senators now on record raising the issue of John McCain's health, and an independent group set to make a push for the ...
The New Bush
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
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We knew Bush wasn't "smart." And now we know Palin isn't either. But can Dems find a way to show why all these sorted facts matter?
Schumer: Obama Should "Hit Back Hard"
Politico | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
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One of the Democratic Party's leading electoral street fighters, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, said that Barack Obama should respond to John McCain's p...
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