Make 50 the New 60
Feb 13, 2017 | By William Kristol
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer isn’t a happy warrior. He loves the spotlight, but everyone's paying more attention to his colleagues Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. He hoped to be majority leader, but Republicans surprised most observers by holding the Senate on Election Day. He fulminated throughout 2016 against the decision by Republicans to deny President Barack Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland a hearing, let alone a vote, but his GOP counterpart, Mitch McConnell, showed how it's done by succeeding in holding his caucus together behind that strategy.
So on January 3 of this year Schumer talked tough. "We are not going to settle on a Supreme Court nominee," he told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "If they don't appoint someone who's really good, we're going to oppose him tooth and nail."
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