By Chuck Schumer’s Definition, 48% of the Country is ‘Extreme’
**Written by Doug Powers
Democrat caucus-parrot Chuck Schumer is sticking to his claim that the Tea Party is “extreme”:
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said he doesn’t regret reporters overhearing him telling Democratic colleagues that Republican budget cuts should be painted as “extreme.” Schumer and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., sparred on just where the Tea Party political movement stood in relationship to the American people, in an exclusive political debate on “This Week.”
Schumer stood by the remarks he made when he was apparently unaware his microphone was open to reporters.
“I have no problem with reporters hearing that,” Schumer told anchor Christiane Amanpour. “I said a few hours before [the call] on the floor of the Senate. I’ve said it on this show. The Tea Party is the group standing in the way. They are extreme,” he insisted.
By “extreme” you’d expect to be able to peg this extremely extreme group of extremists as a small band of irresponsible crazies, but according to this Rasmussen poll, under Schumer’s definition, almost half the country is extreme:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters say when it comes to the major issues facing the country, their views are closer to the average Tea Party member as opposed to the average member of Congress.
Calling almost half the country “extreme” just because they don’t want to bankrupt the country is pretty… well, extreme (that’s what the caucus instructed me to use).
(h/t Washington Examiner)
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Please remember Chuckie is just repeating the talking points. He doesn’t really believe them.
And the other half?
If it’s extreme to want small government, balanced budget, Constitutional adherence, border security, uncorrupted elections, capitalism, using the resources of our own country, lower taxes, less regulation, freedom of religious expression, and freedom from threats and harrassment by our own government…then paint me EXTREMELY EXTREME!!!
That’s a pretty creative way for Rasmussen to paint the tea party as mainstream when it consistently (see, e.g., here and here) has Palin-like favorability ratings.
Don’t you hate it when Rasmussen steals your playbook?
I’ve started reading more about this country’s founders…I mean more about their lives. These patriots were fearless in many ways, not sure about their country’s future, their own future, and the future of their children. They were the epitome of risk takers…many lost their homes, their land, and even their children. Politicians today are small-minded cowards, unwilling and unable to risk anything, especially their privileged life as congressional reps. They have no guts, not vision, no common sense, and thus, no ability to act as a representative of anyone. They are spineless leeches on the US body.
Do you remember how the Dems were absolutely shocked by the Tea Party rally’s. They had two responses: 1) Who do these people think they are? 2)How did this happen when we just elected the most wonderful guy ever? They were totally clueless and, worse, hated hearing from the “common man”.
It is CRITICAL that people go to Tea Party Rallys and voice their concerns. What Reid and his ilk really want is our silence. NO! We cannot remain silent. We must, if we are truly patriots, show some kind of resolve and courage as did Americans during the American Revolution – or we will surely lose the Republic.
November 2010 begs to differ.
What’s that? 48% agree with the tea party?
OK, where are they?
Number of people marching on DC…..
No, it’s you who’s trying to be creative here. Those poll questions you cited were about the Tea Party movement. Rasmussen’s poll was about agreement with the Tea Party’s views, which of course is the more relevant factor here.
Can you imagine how bad things would be if groups like the Tea Party weren’t trying to prevent Chucky from achieving his communist goals?
Chuck, you are growing government faster than at any other time in history. The deficits are at 1.3 trillion and your party just passed a healthcare bill that will allow you to control 1/6th of the U.S. economy, in addition of course to the percentage that you control now. You have made progress toward controlling the majority of the economy and despite all this, you are complaining about people standing in your way? Are you serious? Is this suppose to be an April fool’s inspired moment?
Damn-after all these years and I am STILL a minority.
Or perhaps we are RARE GEMS?
Odd but I am extremely unhurt by Lil Chucky’s scorn.
–>insert big yawn and little tear here<–
===
As Vice President Biden was heard to say:
There is Chuck now-Up Chuck!
Well chuck-e-poo, I guess I am one of the ‘extreme’! Gotta love this and all the little darling d’s don’t you? The msm stat talking point out today, go get those nasty TP members who want to see to it our Constitution is upheld by you slug slimes in dc? Wow blow me over with a feather, you guys got me!
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That’s because, according to the Democrat playbook, the only thing worse than stepping on your crank in public is to admit you were wrong, and show weakness (see Bill Clinton).
RSS,
Would you rather them have Pelosi or Reid like favourability ratings?
Right, but they didn’t actually poll on tea party issues. They just had respondents guess as to what those issues are. On the tea party’s bread-and-butter issues like keeping the Bush tax cuts for the rich and reducing entitlements, the public overwhelmingly disagrees.
I wish we could count on 48%. Most people I talk to aren’t particularly left or right, but they can tell you all about their favorite TV show.
Chuck U. Schumer is one of those elitist snobs who thinks he is better than the “chattering class”. He needs to be taken down a few pegs, first by being soundly defeated in the next election and second, by finding all the many skeletons in his closet and putting him in prison.
Fixed it for you. No charge.
How sad indeed that the founding fathers had to steer the ship of state without instantaneous access to polls.
I think these two parts of the poll speak even more to the point:
But, but, they didn’t have things distracting them like American Idol!!!/sarc
RSS, you do realize don’t you that rich people pay more in taxes than do poor people?
If rich people are already paying more in taxes than poor people, why do you feel disgust toward letting them keep the rest of their money? What percentage of taxation against the rich would make you call off your crusade for economic justifce? More importantly, if your side is spending 1.3 trillion dollar deficits, what percentage of income taxation do you believe would bring budgets into balance. And even moreso, do you think that higher levels of taxation would be the most efficient and effective way for the average person in America to build wealth?
And the polls you cited are different…how?
What about reducing domestic spending – you know, the actual point of controversy here? How do you think they’d feel about taking it back to the Clinton years (as a percentage of GDP)? Go ahead, take a guess.
(and as it is, the Republicans aren’t even trying to go that far)
If we’re the extreme ones…I wonder what Alan Grayson would be?
Whats he supposed to say when he gets caught with his pants down?
After all, he’s got Weiner on his side.
This is a made up story. It is not a bread and butter issue for the Tea Party.
Well, for one thing, one of them was from April 2010. I think that makes it somewhat OBE.
He is meth-crazy!
Well, the goal is to make the extreme left look moderate, so they have no choice but to make the average moderate american look extreme. Obviously we are not fooled.
It’s bread and mustard for a wiener, not bread and butter. Cheeez….
{Unless, of course, your last name is Frank}
I suppose Frank would prefer mayonnaise on his weiners, all things considered.
Somebody show Barry what the logical end of all this spending is. The money supply is finite (see Weimar Republic- get someone to look it up for you)
If he would just flip-flop one more time and take the lead on this debt stuff, he could come off as the greatest US president, ever.
Right now, he’s making Jimmy look like a fiscal genius.
I think Frank would say Wiener is behind him all the way.
Schumer probably finds that extreme also unless the caucus tells him differently.
I’m not “extreme” per se. “Ultra” is more accurate.
Chuckiepoo needs a reality check. Of course, if it came from the US government, it would likely bounce.
Red State Skeptic said:
I would have thought you would have taken the following data and printed it out to refer back too every time you feel the need to throw out the class warfare crap:
The Top 1% of earners pay 37% of Federal Tax
The Top 5% of earners pay 57% of Federal Tax
The Top 10% of earners pay 68% of Federal Tax
The Top 25% of earners pay 85% of Federal Tax
The Bottom 50% pay 3% of Federal Tax
Villify the Tea Party is all they have left in their to throw at us.
The Left always will tell you what truly scares them. They are deathly afraid of the Tea Party.
That is the one thing Democrats and the GOP leadership agree on.
Then there are the asset-wealthy for whom “earning” isn’t exactly the right word. Of course, those often happen to be Democrats.
http://www.nerepublican.com/index.php/2004/10/28/tax-hypocrisy/
Yes! Amen, Brother.
And the Left will always use their polls and their media to tell the Right who the conservative candidates are, and what the conservative issues will be.
Nice ‘talking points’ Chuckie.
Here are some of my talking points..
The Ten poorest cities and percentage of population below the poverty level:
1. Detroit , MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY 29.9%
3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%
5. Miami , FL 26.9%
6. St. Louis , MO 26.8%
7. Chicago, Ill. 26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
10. Newark , NJ 24.2%
U.S. Census Bureau, 2010
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common? THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, HEAVY UNIONISM
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1954.
Cincinnati , OH (3rd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1984.
Cleveland , OH (4th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1989.
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor.
St. Louis , MO (6th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1949.
Chicago, Ill (7th) has never had a Republican mayor.
Milwaukee , WI (8th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1908.
Philadelphia , PA (9th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1952.
Newark , NJ (10th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1907.
Reason: The people in these cities elect Democrats and belong to unions because of their socialistic
agendas and it is clear it is not working. Their failure is a burden on us all. Barry Soetoro is no
different, he is and he backs the very things that led to the demise of these cities. WE CAN NOT
SUSTAIN WHAT WE HAVE BECOME. WE, LARGELY, ARE JUST LIKE THESE CITIES AND WE
ARE ON A PATH OF FAILURE. IT IS TIME FOR INTELLIGENCE TO PREVAIL NO MATTER WHO
PROTESTS. In the history of our federal government:
* 5 Representatives have been expelled. All 5 were Democrats.
* 14 Senators have been expelled. All 14 were Democrats.
* 21 Representatives censured. 16 Democrats, 5 Republicans.
* 7 Senators have been censured. 4 were Democrats, 3 were Republican.
* 2 Presidents have been impeached. Both were Democrats.
A ten year old child can look at the facts above and see the common threads. Barry and the other socialists in the government have us headed toward ruin. If it continues, you have one person to blame, he/she is in your mirror.
Off-topic, but needs to be shared…
While you were sleeping…
Enlightenment on Cote d’Ivoire
Ooooh! The capitalist boogey man is gonna git ya!
So, would someone please tell me the last time a poor person started a business, hired employees, created a successful business plan, filled out a payroll, produced a product or service, sold it, dealt with socialist regulation intent on stoppping him at every turn, overcame that and still made a profit, and PAYED TAXES OWED!!!
Let me guess, that would be…NEVER!
Without the rich doing that, very few of us would have jobs. And that includes the gov’t employees, too. Without the rich paying the taxes they currently pay, you can pretty much kiss many gov’t jobs goodbye.
Red State Skeptic… JUST FOR YOU…
Make it impossible for me to have any jobs to provide
Stoner in car :”rude f*#$in’ doll”
-Bride of Chucky
An unemployed crazy person.
If you were paying taxes you received a tax cut. Have returned yours to the treasury each year to protest the unfairness of these tax cuts? If not, do you feel guilt for spending that money on yourself?
Leftists are only self-righteous about their neighbor’s money.
You know like the thief that lives down the street from you.
Being a water carrier/errand boy/tool for Phonie and Fraudie isn’t extreme. Cheering for Bailout bucks, isn’t extreme. Being in the Lender’s hip pocket isn’t extreme.
That being the case, we can all hope Chuckie has a ‘mellow’ exit at the end of the next election. This guy is pure scum.
If you’re going to start throwing that amplitude of ‘extremes’ around, they should be able to fit in the Unibomber’s MT shack w/ room ta’ spare.
battleaxe said:
ooohh, very good.
Lol, good, good. Look, the whole debate is moot when you think about it? Looking at the PEU’s ( the reason we’re IN this mess ) I’m tired of hearing “we need to make things ‘right’ by them!”
No we don’t. Or rather we already have! The got their piece of the pie upfront. As in guar. income, overpaid like a muthuh, and benefits to boot! It was a nice ride, now it’s over. We ‘owe’ you NOTHING!
Extreme enough for you Chuckie?
M_W,
I think you have the extremely extreme down !
I checked the Forbes list of the 100 richest Americans. All of their net worth, in my estimate, is about $600 billion. If you seized every penny they owned, not just taxed them, that would still be about $800 billion dollars short for this years deficit.
And then theres next year…
How exactly do you expect taxing the rich is going to pay for Obama deficits?
Changed it for you.
Even if you seized all of the assets of every billionaire in the country (about 400 people) you still would only come up with $1 trillion, still $400 billion short of an Obama deficit for one year.
Extreme, indeed, Schumer.
Southpaw,
Check this out. Bill Whittle does an excellent job of putting that Leftist drivel to bed once and for all!
http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=42747
Well, by being caught on open mike talking about what propaganda phrases to use, the word “extreme” is now so overused that it has been rendered meaningless. This guy needs to just shut up. Cavuto skewered him at the end of his 4 pm show today on foxnews.
He explains it way better than I was trying.
Tax the rich, indeed.
Real Men don’t speak to C.A.
Of course someone who is himself a hopelessly idiotic collectivist would think that those who oppose him (even though we USED to be the status quo merely 40 years ago) are “extremists.”
Chucky Schumer: “You are a patriotic American who believes that the government ought to perform its duties in conformance to the Constitution? YOU ARE AN EXTREMIST?!?”
Since the recession, a lot of the wealth in this country is GONE! Pretty soon there wont be many “rich” left to tax.
I heard that. He really scorched him good. Even threw in a few cuss words. I loved it! Hopefully, Schumer saw it too and maybe realized that Cavuto has higher ratings than all the alphabet stations on at that time slot. LOTS of people heard all about the “classy” Chuck U. Schumer.
A vision lost for too long and adopted by the Tea Party —”A wise and frugal government… shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” – First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 by T. Jefferson
Southpaw,
Really just a matter of having the time, sitting down, and slogging your thru it. Like so much of the misinformation The Professional Left deals in, they throw something out there, allow it to get traction among unquestioning Huff/Kos dips.. and presto change-o! It’s a ‘fact’!
Possibly OT, but then maybe an example of why people might be “extreme” in their views of these raging buffoons who insist they know better in how to run (ruin?) our lives.
…and I thought government-run health care was so perfect…
Report: Vet on Death Bed Ejected by VA
That’s OK. I’ll stick to my more credible claim that Schmuckie Schumer is an ass.
The only extreme that is hacking me off is that the government is digging extremely deep into my pocket robbing me of my money to support the parasites of this country. The is some that is extreme and we are sick of it.
°O° chooses Pelosi’s poodle as DNC chair.
No man to man talk huh?
I’m sure Christiane registers higher on the T-scale than Chuck.
I’m sure she kick-starts her vibrator, and probably rolls her own tampons.
Alright, there goes the keyboard and monitor!
Red State Skeptic
(Laughs)
You expect us to trust CNN or Gallup over Rasmussen? Rasmussen polling has a third of its sample independent, democrat and republican each and all within 2.0% points of 33%.
CNN, gallup, CBS, time, ect. are all know to tilt thier numbers (and reporting) in favor of democrats.
Also, Rasmussen releases the details of its polling to members.
I don’t see the same service offered by the pollsters you quoted, RSS.
I wonder why that could be.
The TEA PARTY made its mark on the 2010 election, where it counted the most.
PS—I’d rather have Palin’s ratings that those of Reid or Pelosi.
I’d rather have Palin’s anything than Reid or Pelosi.
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Provide a warning next time! Or volunteer to help clean up the spills.
Chuck Schumer fails the test of history. No one can live beyond their means forever. Bills eventually come due.
We are not all TEA Party members out here in flyover country, but a large majority of Americans have a single idea.
Stop. The. Deficit. Spending.
Extreme? Not at all. Just a simple attack of sanity, Chuck. Try some…
Shumer makes me want to extremely puke.
Repeat lies long enough and they become the truth. Dems, and their lapdogs in the media, would make Goebbels proud.
Numbers don’t matter to political bigots. The only thing that is important to political bigots is spreading their bigotry.
The Democrats have taken the racial bigotry of many decades ago and replaced ‘blacks’ or N’s with ‘conservatives’, red’s and R’s. Where, in the mantra of racial bigotry blacks were too stupid to know how to take care of themselves, that’s now Conservatives are stupid, gun totting, bible thumpers who are mean and nasty to the point they can’t be trusted to take care of themselves, let alone the nation.
Political bigotry is sold to left leaning blacks, and other politically twisted left leaning bigots as a way to get back at the supposedly racial bigoted upper crust whitey’s. Very little if any of this is true, but truth doesn’t matter to the politically bigoted. The more outrageous the scam the better.
One of the silent enablers of this are the RINOs, who would just as soon see tea party conservatives go away… So they sit on their hands during politically bigoted outbursts of the left.
Expect it to continue until it’s challenged openly and continuously for the political bigotry it is. Then, even blacks are likely to sit up and take notice. But then don’t worry, this sort of stuff isn’t what the GOP LOSERSHIP is all about…
These common sense observations aren’t contagious, so don’t worry pondering about them….
I wouldn’t expect Schumer to do otherwise than defending his stupid remarks. When the Dims have so many willing believers, it’s easier to say, “I meant it. But that’s not important because the Repubs had the nerve to (fill in the blank)” than to express any kind of remorse that would make him look wrong.
And so all the little lemmings nod their empty heads, say okay, and continue to watch “Dancing with the Stars” because thinking makes their heads hurt.
I have a question. Does that mean for anyone that is not a dimoturd must act like one in order to not be considered extreme? What I mean is do we have to be as racist as they are? Maybe riot in the streets of WI? Or maybe get some good old fashioned death threats directed at politicians like they do?
I guess I am confused at what exactly these worthless scum, their useful idiots in the media and their sheeple like followers consider as not extreme.
That’s from what page of the democrat party playbook? How unoriginal.
So, when did you hand over extra money to the IRS?
Oh, you didn’t?
Obviously you’re under taxed and feeling extra guilty. I’ll be glad to relieve you of your guilt and accept any of your extra income due to the “bush tax cuts for the rich” that you did not pay to the IRS.
I’m waiting. Check please
Let’s ignore the fact that the Bush tax cuts reduced the lowest tax bracket from 15% to 10% and focus instead on who the “rich” really are. Since the “poor” don’t employ anyone (at least not for long), the “rich” are the nation’s employers.
So, by all means, let’s tax employers into oblivion until we are all unemployed and completely dependent on the government. Yeah, That’ll show em, and make Democrats happy at the same time. Come to think of it, it’s one of the few democratic strategies that actually works as intended — that is until there are no more “rich” left to fund big government and the Chinese refuse to continue financing our ballooning deficit. Then what?
What’s extreme, Mr. Schumer, is the selfishness of lawmakers like you who forge our children’s names to your IOU’s and thereby enslave them to a debt they can never repay. And you do it so you and your moocher friends can live the good life at their expense. But because they don’t have a say in the matter, it’s called “taxation without representation” and goes against the values of every founder of this nation.
Hell, by most in the GOP, the Tea Partiers are extreme! You don’t even need to talk about the other party!
I often find it interesting that most people who call themselves “conservative” are against people who believe in following the constitution. They seem to like “origionalist” Justices, but are opposed to “origionalist” Congressmen and Senators. Yet, the #1 job of a Congressman or Senator is to follow their Oath to defend and protect the constitution!
I guess that’s why I became an Independent.
Schumer would sell his mother’s body parts for votes… before she was dead.
He’s the scum of th earth. King of the Sunday Press Conference to proclaim that he’s saving children…. that is right after boosting Planned Parenthood to see that lots of children are killed.
Chuck. He’s what’s wrong with DC.
And New York.
That is how most sane people see it. However, the #1 job of lib pols, and too many so called conservatives is to park their a**sses in the Halls of Congress for as long as they can, to enjoy the perks and power, and then one day retire to sell their influence for millions. The Tea Party is the only thing standing in the way of complete economic collapse. If the TP does not prevail, this Country will be lost, exactly what Dems want, so they can install their socialist scheme into America.
I urge everybody to write their Senators and Congressmen and tell them to shut it all down on Friday. The majority of the American people are behind them.
UpChuck Schumer is another LSOS (Lying sack of…) congresscritter who is knowingly, willingly and gleefully going to lie even when the facts clearly show he’s lying. It’s dipwads like that who deserved to be pimpslapped on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
GEL #40, great post. Just as the John Stossell show Freeloaders showed about the indian tribes. If you rely upon the gubmint to take care of you, you are destined for a life of poverty and degradation. If you go out into America and work for your supper, you have the chance (as millions of legal and illegal aliens find each year) of becoming successful. The Democrat party of socialists and communists would rather keep you in poverty and voting for the politburo every year, than ENCOURAGE you to go out there and make something of yourself and decide that you don’t need handouts from the democrat party. Communism has always been easy to sell, because all of us are basically lazy, but the problem is that it can’t be sustained. Lazy always outnumber industrious, other people’s money always runs out, and isn’t it funny that the only people who espouse communism are people who can’t be fired for incompetence,Educators and Government workers.
Democrat Math:
CUTTING $100B out of a $3,600B budget = EXTREME
BORROWING $1,600B to add to our NATIONAL DEBT = COMPROMISE
Here is a GREAT link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ&feature=player_embedded
And a preview for Red State Lunatic:
One of the 10 commandments is…
‘Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s house; thou shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’
This commandment is being broken everytime you hear some leftist say “the rich need to pay more taxes.” Worry about yourself and your family, not about what someone else has and you don’t!! That is what God wanted. If you don’t believe in God fine, but stay out of someone else’s business.
After 2012 we have to look at rescinding the right to vote for anyone getting a Gov’t handout. Why should people who are getting free stuff or pay no federal income taxes be able to vote to raise my taxes?!?!?