I Am Smarter than Charles Schumer

On November 9, 2007, I wrote a post calling out Charles Schumer in incredibly strong terms for his support of Michael Mukasey.

I hope one of your kids is arrested on suspicion of terrorism, imprisoned secretly with no access to a lawyer, and waterboarded.

You are scum, Senator Schumer. You are a bad Jew, a bad Democrat, and a bad person. You are a hypocrite who gladly trots out Holocaust victims when it serves your mealy-mouthed political purposes, but when the time comes to stand up for our rights, rights that millions of American fought and died for, you take the side of the fascists and the Nazis. You are a sellout. A pig. A pile of dogshit that should be scooped up and thrown in the trash where it belongs.

On the slim chance that there IS a God, I hope he throws you into the deepest bowels of Hell. I hope you burn Senator Schumer, and I pray that you never sleep another restful night for the rest of your stupid miserable life. And I hope that when death comes for you, that it is drawn-out as long as possible, a tortured screaming death that eats you from the inside out, leaving you without strength or the ability to communicate, but fully cognizant of the pain you’re going through.

I was angry with Senator Schumer, who offered the following rationale for voting in favor of Mr. Mukasey:

Judge Mukasey’s refusal to state that waterboarding is illegal was unsatisfactory to me and many other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But Congress is now considering — and I hope we will soon pass — a law that would explicitly ban the use of waterboarding and other abusive interrogation techniques. And I am confident that Judge Mukasey would enforce that law.

On Friday, he personally made clear to me that if the law were in place, the president would have no legal authority to ignore it — not even under some theory of inherent authority granted by Article II of the Constitution, as Vice President Cheney might argue. Nor would the president be able to evade a clear pronouncement on the subject from the courts. Judge Mukasey also pledged to enforce such a law… If we block Judge Mukasey’s nomination and then learn in six months that waterboarding has continued unabated, that victory will seem much less valuable.[waterboarding, as of 1/30/08, continues unabated.]

To defeat him would be to abandon the hope of instituting the many reforms called for by our investigation. No one questions that Judge Mukasey would do much to remove the stench of politics from the Justice Department.

Would anyone, other than Charles Schumer, be surprised to learn that Mukasey’s assurances were worthless? Watch Senator Torture get the the ol’ stonewall treatment from his good buddy Mukasey, who refused to answer any of his questions (h/t TPM Muckraker). Watch Senator Torture’s panties get all bunched up as he realizes his pal, who he assured everyone in the pages of the New York Times would “remove the stench of politics from the Justice Department”, has just made the Senator look exactly like the jackass that represents his party.

Pretty funny, eh? Except it’s not: Chuck’s lack of foresight helped replace Alberto Gonzalez with Alberto Gonzalez.

If you want to have some fun, call his office at 202-224-6542 and ask his staff why Chuck didn’t see that coming, when pretty much anyone with a drop of common sense was telling him “NO!”

It should happen to Chuck. And his children, while Chuck’s forced to watch.

One Response to “I Am Smarter than Charles Schumer”

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