{"id":42047,"date":"2018-12-28T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42047"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:00:52","slug":"schumer-vs-the-climate-manchins-criminally-insane-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42047","title":{"rendered":"Schumer vs. the Climate: Manchin\u2019s Criminally Insane Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schumer vs. the Climate: Manchin\u2019s Criminally Insane Promotion<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Hell hath no fury like Chuck Schumer scorned.<\/p>\n

If I read Chuck Schumer correctly, he generally assumes his progressive opponents are powerless wimps and that he can just serve his Wall Street and AIPAC masters<\/a> without taking our views or feelings into account. Or even that we\u2019re \u201cfucking retarded,\u201d as Schumer evidently believes but it took Rahm Emanuel to actually say.<\/a>Schumer, by contrast, typically goes about his business of screwing progressives without getting too emotionally or verbally worked up about us.<\/p>\n

But occasionally\u2014I hope ever increasingly\u2014we progressives manage to get under his skin and Schumer does (usually not says) something incredibly spiteful. And potentially incredibly stupid, provided Schumer has severely underestimated his progressive opponents\u2019 numbers, resolve, and strategic savvy.<\/p>\n

Now, given progressives\u2019 long years of political impotence<\/a>\u2014the same history of futile tethering to the anti-progressive Democratic Party that prompted Rahm Emanuel to ask, \u201cWhere the hell will they go?\u201d\u2014Schumer\u2019s calculus of screwing progressives without backlash has worked incredibly well. Perhaps an occasional grumble of protest (say, by the ACLU<\/a> and the Center for Constitutional Rights<\/a>) when he actually sought to violate the Constitution,<\/a> as Schumer\u2019s irrational level of aversion to the BDS movement (abetted by Congress\u2019s largest AIPAC-sponsored donations<\/a>) rashly compelled him to do. But nothing like career-threatening backlash from his rashness; such a powerful shield is Schumer\u2019s prowess as a Wall Street fundraiser for Democrats<\/a>that it\u2019s been long years since he\u2019s even faced the indignity of a primary.<\/p>\n

But now a new generation of progressives\u2014ones at long last serious about forcing<\/i> Democrats to address humanity\u2019s climate emergency\u2014has nettled Schumer into a gesture of unprecedented rashness and stupidity, one that could inflict enormous lasting damage on his political career.<\/p>\n

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Schumer vs. the Climate: Manchin\u2019s Criminally Insane Promotion Hell hath no fury like Chuck Schumer scorned. If I read Chuck Schumer correctly, he generally assumes his progressive opponents are powerless wimps and that he can just serve his Wall Street and AIPAC masters without taking our views or feelings into account. Or even that we\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[14685,141,5493,1729,23647,21386],"class_list":["post-42047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-patrick-walker","tag-rahm-emanuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42048,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42047\/revisions\/42048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}