Between Schumer and a Camera
Jay Ambrose tries to make sense of Sen. Chuck Schumer leaking a letter that cause the IndyMac Bank run. The only thing that makes sense to him is Schumer desire for attention:
So why in the name of political maturity, prudence and just ordinary common sense did Schumer do this incredible thing? Because he is blessed with none of the above, or so it would seem from a Senate record that includes denigrating the success of the Iraqi surge, making proposals that might pointlessly keep Americans from acquiring homes, aiming to rob oil companies of profits needed to help wrest us from crisis and fighting obnoxiously against perfectly well-qualified judicial nominees because they aren’t liberals.
What he is really, really good at is getting publicity, which serves his re-election prospects, his ego, his national prominence and the fortunes of his party, I suppose. One Internet source says it was the always-perceptive Bob Dole who joked that “the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera.” Schumer’s prompting of a bank collapse instructs us that this insatiable desire for the spotlight, along with his recklessness, can create dangers outside of Washington as well.
“Reckless Schumer Kills a Bank, Thousands of Jobs”
