Schumer: Conservatives Want to Take America 'Back to the 19th Century'

Schumer: Conservatives want to take America back...to the 1800s
Chuck Schumer, not content with the liberal trope that Conservatives want to 'turn the clock back' to the 1950s, says that some "hard right people" in America "seem to be wanting to move us back to the 19th century." On “Good Morning America” Monday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Charles Schumer how well he thought Barack Obama is working with Congress and what advice he’d give the president. Schumer advised Obama against dealing with the “hard right,” argu...

Schumer warns Obama of 'hard right' in Congress aiming to bring America 'back to the 19th century'
Jeff Poor covers the media for The Daily Caller. He covered business news at the Media Research Center prior to coming to The Daily Caller. Jeff is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama. He is also a political columnist for Mobile, Ala.-based Lagniappe. On “Good Morning America” Monday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Charles Schumer how well he thought Barack Obama is working with Congress and what advice he’d give the president. Schumer adv...

Schumer warns Obama of hard right in Congress aiming to bring America back to the 19th century (Daily Caller)
On “Good Morning America” Monday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Charles Schumer how well he thought Barack Obama is working with Congress and what advice he’d give the president. Schumer advised Obama against dealing with the “hard right,” arguing conservative Republicans aim to set the nation back centuries. “My advice to the president is Compromise when you can, but when people are being unreasonable, and we have hard right people who seem to be wa...

Key test vote in Senate for 9/11 health bill
WASHINGTON—The Senate is set for a key test vote on a bill to aid people who became sick after being exposed to Toxins at the World Trade Center ruins following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. New York Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand said they were confident they had the 60 votes needed to prevail on the vote expected Wednesday after the Senate completes its work on an Arms Control treaty with Russia. But they worry that Republicans who oppose the measure could try to s...

House Sends Food Safety Bill to President
Like this Story? Share it: The U.S. Senate voted to give the FDA a sweeping overhaul. As Nancy Cordes reports, the bill is the most significant change to the FDA since the 1930s. (AP) The House has passed a sweeping bill aimed at making food safer following recent contaminations in peanuts, eggs and produce, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. The Legislation passed Tuesday would give the government broad new powers to inspect processing plants, order recalls and impose stri...

Net neutrality compromise wont calm new Congress
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. WASHINGTON — The Compromise struck over writing Internet rules of the road gives telecom companies reasons to keep investing while also protecting consumers. Of course, that delicate balance won’t please political purists who either deny government has a regulatory role or, on the other hand, want to make the Internet into a utility. So expect plenty of pushback from the new Congress. Civil libertar...

David Horowitzs Archives: Conservatism needs a transplant
This article was originally published by Salon on October 6, 1997. It has become the topic of the season on the political right: Whatever happened to the triumph of Conservatism? Recently, the Weekly Standard ran a cover symposium titled “Is There a Worldwide Conservative Crackup?” Conservative ideas appear to be ascendant, the editors pointed out, but the party that represents them is getting battered. In an essay in the Wall Street Journal, “What Ails Conservatism?” ...

Today's rage-a-holic IS "The Real John McCain"
Our own Cliff Schecter nailed it on The Last Word last night: Yes, Anna Marie Cox was amusing, but Cliff focused like a laser on the core rage, resentment and demonizing fury that has been an underlying constant in John McCain's political life, even as he's managed to fool the vast majority of Versailles the vast majority of the time. Even Anne Marie Cox still exhibited some residual fondness for a mask McCain once wore, and the Cliff's clear-cut dissociation from that sort of confusion is wh...

Schumer To House: Please Stick Around For Zadroga Vote
Sen. Chuck Schumer just released the following statement on the ongoing effort in Washington to pass the Zadroga bill: “After speaking with Leader Reid, it appears that the 9-11 health bill will come up for a key vote in the Senate tomorrow, once the START Treaty is completed. It will be decision day in the Senate, and we will see once and for all who will keep their promise to never forget the heroes of 9/11.” After this vote, we believe it will be clear that a Supermajority of the...

Schumer, Gillibrand Predict 9/11 Responders Bill Will Pass (VIDEO)
New York's two Democratic Senators are predicting that the bill to aid 9/11 First Responders will be able to pass the Senate -- after having previously been blocked by Senate Republicans -- in the wake of recent changes such as lowering the Price Tag from $7.4 billion to $6.2 billion. Appearing this morning on Good Morning America, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told George Stephanopoulos: "We now have the votes, we've made some modifications that some of our Republican colleagues requested and if...

Schumer: If Zadroga Doesn't Pass 'Thousands Will Die'
Chuck Schumer appeared on "Good Morning America" today with a stark warning for senators dragging their feet on the 9/11 Health Bill. "It's not too late," he told host George Stephanopoulos. "But it will be if we don't do anything, because thousands will die because they don't get adequate medical care." Schumer added that he believes the bill will pass unless one of his colleagues uses procedural maneuvers to keep it from coming to the floor. Earlier today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg convened wi...

Rivals Accuse GMA Of Simply Reckless, Alarmist and Sensational Coverage
The holiday week started Monday morning with a scare on ABC’s Good Morning America. Some of it was real, and some of it, well, wasn’t. The GMA crew called in power player Brian Ross to report and provide analysis on the arrests of twelve people in the U.K.-considered the largest Counterterrorism operation in months. Big story, and fittingly, GMA had its chief investigative correspondent on it. But later, when police found a Suspicious Package at Newark Airport, things got scari...

Charleyworld: Lame-duck Congress an insult to all poultry
By Charles Memminger Watching a Lame Duck Congress in action is more painful than watching a bear gnaw off his foot after getting caught in a steel trap. Where are the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals when you need them? This Lame Duck needs to be put out of its misery while there are still a few pennies left in the national till. Oops. Too late. The national till is as empty as Billy’s piggy bank after daddy goes on a meth bender. We should have known we were in trouble when ...

Jim DeMint Is Still Upset About Having To Work During The Month Of December
As you probably have heard, Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is not happy about having to work during the Lame Duck session of Congress, where legislators are attempting to unwind many issues they did not consider in the previous, non-lame duck session of Congress, because the Senate is terrible and men like DeMint have been pointlessly obstructing measures like the re-ratification of the START Treaty. DeMint has famously drawn his line in the sand around the Christmas holiday, saying that working...

House passes bill to evaluate government spending on heels of two reports
The House cleared Legislation Tuesday that will require federal agencies to identify overlapping programs and do quarterly evaluations of Government Spending. The House Blue Dog Coalition touted passed of the measure as part of its blueprint to improve government accountability and reduce waste in Government Spending.  Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) led the House charge on the bill while several Democrats Sens. Tom Carper (Del.), Mark Warner (Va.) and Daniel Akaka (Hawaii) urged passage of the ...

Are Obama's Job Approval Numbers Bouncing Back?
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. The latest CNN/Opinion Research poll of national adults finds Barack Obama's Job Approval split -- 48 percent approve and 48 percent disapprove. This is up substantially from September, when the poll found 42 percent of adults approving and 54 percent disapproving The shift was enough to prompt a short item from Politico, with this opening: "President Barack Obama may be staging a comeback in the eyes of the American People ." So, i...

S01E15 - The Merkley Proposal (Season Finale!)
Status: Currently in discussion within the Senate Democratic Caucus, this proposal has emerged as the most prominent and feasible comprehensive rules reform measure. If the Democratic majority exercises the Constitutional Option on the first day of the 112th Congress, they will have an opportunity to reform the Filibuster rules with simple majority support. The Democratic Caucus will have 53 members at the time, including Independent Sens. Lieberman and Sanders, so they can only afford to lose t...

Here Come More Secret Recordings That Could Break Apart The UK Government
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. A bombshell Scandal is rocking the UK government. Earlier we mentioned how UK Business Secretary Vince Cable was secretly recorded threatening to bring down the Coalition Government (and also threatening war on Rupert Murdoch). Cable was brought into the government as a member of the Liberal Democrats when it and the Tories formed a coalition after Elections earlier this year. Anyway, now there are more recording. Sky News reports that The Tel...

Barack Obama and the War on Christmas
By Michael J.W. Stickings Photo from The Globe and Mail: "US President Barack Obama gives a high-five to a girl named Malia, like his daughter, after reading the book Twas the Night Before Christmas, to Students at Long Branch Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, during a surprise visit." Christmas? Christmas?! What the hell is the president of the United States doing reading Christian Propaganda to a group of easily-indoctrinated kids? Isn't he a Muslim? Or a Marxist? Or a godless liber...

START Treaty: What Republicans Can Learn from Reagan
Take comfort, Obama: Conservatives blasted Reagan's attempt at arms reduction, too. Stanley Weiss on how critics of today's START Treaty put politics above security....

alicublog
NUMBERS RACKET. The new Census numbers are here, and there are few surprises, though I have to admit it is a shock to see that California gained population (though not House seats) -- to hear Conservatives speak of it, one would have expected most of its citizens to have emigrated to Galt's Gulch, in desperate search of bootstraps. But this is unfair -- all states except Michigan grew in population. I guess those 10 years of socialism weren't such a turn-off, after all. In other news, statist st...

Put Personhood Amendments Aside to Defeat Obama, Stop Abortion
From the diaries by Erick With today’s release of new Census figures putting the focus back on the must-win states necessary to defeat Obama in 2012, it’s important for social Conservatives to understand something necessary to achieve that goal....

The lame duck wins are adding up for Obama
Despite their leaders' bluster, Senate Republicans do not have the votes to block ratification of the New START treaty. When a vote to end the GOP's Filibuster was called on Wednesday afternoon, 11 Republican senators broke with their party. With a total of 67 senators voting to kill the filibuster, the path now seems clear for the chamber to formally ratify the treaty, which calls for the U.S. and Russia to pare back their nuclear arsenals over the next seven years, on Wednesday....

Census 2010 shows red states gaining congressional seats
The congressional map continued to shift toward Red States Tuesday, as the U.S. Census Bureau released new apportionment data. The Census numbers reshuffled the number of seats in Congress for 18 states, based on population gains and losses over the past decade. Most states gaining seats went for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the 2008 Presidential Election, while almost all states that lost seats were won by President Obama -- many of them in the Rust Belt. The westward movement of the U.S. popu...

Employees To Be Told of Right to Unionize
By Melanie Trottman Democrats failed to get a top priority of union organizers through Congress during their two years in control, but the Democratic-dominated National Labor Relations Board is taking other steps to boost workers who want to unionize. The board’s acting General Counsel, Lafe Solomon , charged in a memo released Monday that unfair labor practices are “severe” during organizing campaigns. He said he is putting a priority on protecting “employee freedom of choice with rega