Michael Stuart Kelly Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Schumer's New Three Branches of GovernmentThere's not too much to say about this one. Gaffes are gaffes and everyone makes them. But this coming from a USA Senator--Senator Charles Ellis Schumer, Democrat from New York--is way beyond gaffe. Dumbass is more like it.<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fG0Jpu9geWY" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>You know, we have 3 branches of government -- we have a House, we have a Senate, we have a President...Are those reading the Constitution sessions for Congress members still going on?Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Campbell Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 After today's ruling concerning ObamaReidPelosiCare, I doubt Schumer will make the same mistake again.Robert Campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Alfonse Damatto once referred to Chuck Schumer as Senator Shmeckle-head (Senator Putz Head). He was definitely in range of the target.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Bissell Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Schumer's New Three Branches of GovernmentThere's not too much to say about this one. Gaffes are gaffes and everyone makes them. But this coming from a USA Senator--Senator Charles Ellis Schumer, Democrat from New York--is way beyond gaffe. Dumbass is more like it.<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fG0Jpu9geWY" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>You know, we have 3 branches of government -- we have a House, we have a Senate, we have a President...Are those reading the Constitution sessions for Congress members still going on?MichaelNot bad, but for my money, the best one I've ever heard was Obama (I think, during the 2008 campaign) saying that the U.S. had 57 states. You might expect a person born in Kenya or a Muslim to say such a thing, but a Christian born in the United States??? ;-)REB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Bissell Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Alfonse Damatto once referred to Chuck Schumer as Senator Shmeckle-head (Senator Putz Head). He was definitely in range of the target.Ba'al ChatzafMy favorite nickname for this bozo is the one given him by Rush Limbaugh: Chuck U. Schumer, obviously a takeoff on the old Mad magazine character, Charles Ulysses (Chuck U.) Farley.REB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william.scherk Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 You know, we have 3 branches of government -- we have a House, we have a Senate, we have a President...Hilarious. I suspect the only ill-informed people in the Senate are Democrats, since no Republican has ever said anything quite as off-putting.Mind you, the next generation of Democrats is likely to be just as stupid. Remember the National Constitution Center's poll in 1998?More Teens Can Name Three Stooges Than Can Name Three Branches of GovernmentWASHINGTON, D.C. (September 2, 1998) A new national survey released today at a US Senate hearing shows that when asked, more American teenagers can name three of the Three Stooges than can name the three branches of government (59% to 41%) know the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air than know the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (94.7% to 2.2%) know which city has the zip code "90210" than the city in which the US Constitution was written (75% to 25%), and know the star of the motion picture "Titanic" than know the Vice President of the United States (90% to 74%). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 William,There are plenty of Republican clowns in Washington.Usually it's a different flavor, but the same crap.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william.scherk Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 There are plenty of Republican clowns in Washington.Usually it's a different flavor, but the same crap.That may be true, but do you honestly think that a Republican Senator could mix up the three branches? Here's another sobering reminder that Democrats are uninformed about civics, from a 2005 Harris Poll sponsored by the American Bar Association, as reported by CBS News:The ABA poll, being released Monday, shows that just over half of adults can correctly identify the branches.One in five incorrectly said that the three branches were Republican, Democrat and independent, and 16 percent thought the three were local, state and federal.While eight in 10 people said that separation of powers is important, less than half, when given four choices, correctly picked that "Congress, the president and the federal courts each have different responsibilities." Nearly a third said it meant different federal departments have different powers."There are some significant gaps in people's knowledge," Greco said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Campbell Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 At present, Chuck Schumer, who most likely would have become Majority Leader had the Democrats kept their majority without Harry Reid, is more powerful than most of the Republican clowns in Washington.All of that is subject to change, of course.Robert Campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 The Senator's statement from the context he was speaking was actually correct. In the creation of legislation the Supreme Court is out of the loop. Since appropriations bills have to originate in the House of Representatives and there are two houses of Congress, the other being the Senate, and the President has a role if only to sign off on what is passed to make it a law--absent an over-ride--that's effectively three branches each giving and taking and coming up with something or nothing, nothing sometimes amounting to its own something. That's not the classical, formal view, of course. --Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Well at least Schumer did not have a chart of the three branches and still get it wrong like Chris Mathews did this week with the map of Egypt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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