Chuck Schumer delivered the Democratic Radio Address today. Chuck really is one smart, tough SOB. He asked Bush to put a halt to the right wing radicals, AP reports:
Sen. Charles Schumer, a leading Democrat in the fight over judicial nominees, urged President Bush to intervene and rein in the strongest conservative critics of Democratic opposition to some candidates.Looks like the plan is to make Bush liable for the extremists in the GOP. Good, because Bush is responsible. When his allies evoke Stalin, the KKK and violence against judges, Bush owns it. That's the standard the GOP created for John Kerry last year..."the Whoopi Standard." More from AP:
Schumer, D-N.Y., delivered his party's weekly radio address Saturday, in which he decried "a whiff of extremism in the air the likes of which we haven't seen in decades."
In his radio appeal, Schumer sought to draw Bush more directly into the fray by urging the president to denounce some conservatives who have used harsh language to criticize the Democrats.The Senate comes back in to D.C. this week. Frist will be under enormous pressure from the nuts to push the nuclear option (as the GOP named it). All the extremists will be working over time and going even further over the edge.
"I am making a heartfelt plea to you, Mr. President. When you came to Washington, you said you wanted to change the climate in D.C.," Schumer said. "Those stating these abhorrent views count themselves as your political allies. One word from you will bring a halt to these un-American statements. That would be a way to strengthen democracy here at home."
The senator referred generally to some activists comparing judges to the Ku Klux Klan and terrorists.
Bush is their leader. Schumer's right. One word from Bush would stop the madness. My bet is we will never hear Bush utter any word in that direction.
