I sincerely hope that Chuck Schumer has a grand plan & isn't this naive.

[catbyte]

I know it's against TOS to criticize Democratic public figures, and I'm really not trying to do that. Seriously, I'm just baffled as to what his strategy is and what he hoped to gain by doing that.

Link to tweet

Chuck Schumer called Donald Trump to urge him to appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court as a way to unite the country. When are the leaders of the Democratic party going to wake up? Trump and the GOP are not trying to unite the country. They are trying to take it over.
1:36 PM - Jul 5, 2018

[Anon-C]

1. I'm embarrassed frankly.

[lagomorph777]

2. Schumer knows that. But it's his duty to point out the obvious: a stolen SCOTUS seat

is now available again.

[hlthe2b]

3. I don't get it either... Seems incredibly naive' and self-defeating.

Schumer knows Trump well, so I'd like to think there was something strategic about this, but I am certainly not seeing it.

[awesomerwb1]

15. Like when Schumer was caught saying

"Trump likes me" and then Dump proceeded to do the opposite of what Schumer wanted?

Fool me once, fool me 300 times.....

[zipplewrath]

4. What'd he have to lose

If Trump actually did it, it's a win. If he doesn't, Schumer establishes that Trump isn't interested in uniting the country. Basically Schumer is getting out ahead of this one.

[RKP5637]

6. Yep! n/t

[catbyte]

8. That's my best guess, too.

[Guilded Lilly]

10. I agree on this one.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I tend to agree

Schumer doesn't have many options, but at least we know that Trump only cares about his base.

[lapfog_1]

19. this was my thought

I see a lot of breast rending and gnashing of teeth here over this and I wonder "why?"

Of course it's not going to work. But what do you have to lose... it's like buying a lotto ticket. Sure its money down the drain... but if DJT has a brain fart and agrees to it... repuke heads everywhere would explode.

[secondwind]

5. I think that this was a good idea... n/t

[unblock]

7. Ffs. If he doesn't point out that Garland deserves the seat, he gets pilloried for not taking

a righteous stand.

Can't win with some people.

He knows full well Donnie's not going to listen to him. That's not the point of asking.

[catbyte]

11. I'm hoping it's a set up for some ads this fall.

[northremembers]

9. If he had a plan last year was the time to it.

I like Chuck, but I'm hoping he sees he's not they leader for 2019. The best thing he can do right now is step back and let the newer generation take the spotlight. Trump will go as far right as he can. All we can do is filibuster until January. That's what they do. Time to play by their rules.

[GulfCoast66]

17. You supposition leaders 'stepping aside' for some unnamed 'newer generation'

Is as mistaken as your request that we Filibuster till January.

We cannot filibusters the Supreme Court. All they need is a simple majority. They have a simple majority.

There is nothing in creation Schumer can do to stop them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. It was a Hail Mary pass.

A good faith effort, even though it was doomed from the start.

[Garrett78]

13. He has nothing to lose in this case. What I don't support is criticism of Congresswoman Waters.

When all she did was advocate for nonviolent protest of people who are actively destroying lives.

[sarah FAILIN]

16. I have no problem with it

Now nobody can say it wasn't suggested.

Wouldn't it be terrible though if MG was appointed and he was worse than Gorsuch?

[pnwmom]

18. There was no downside to doing this.

If Trump said yes, we'd have Merrick Garland.

If he said no, we'd be no worse off. And Schumer would have reminded everyone that the seat was stolen.

[displacedtexan]

20. Schumer just put the stolen Supreme Court seat on the record, making it

a serious subject for debate leading into the midterms. By attempting to appeal to Trump's "better angels," Senator Schumer just poked the dumbass deplorable with a sharp "why can't we all just get along?" stick.

[Tatiana]

21. He's just doing what he knows how to do. And this is why we need new leadership.

You can't negotiate with terrorists. You have to fight and beat them.

But we still have a segment of leadership that believes the base will make do with grandstanding and talk of "uniting the country."

Who wants to be united with a bunch of misogynistic, child-terrorizing racists?

[kcr]

22. Of all the things to criticize Schumer for, this isn't one.

I don't get this post at all. What would you have Dems do? ETA and by the way, the tweet has it wrong. It was the other way around.
Trump was actually the one that called, not Schumer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. I'm pretty sure

that he's not expecting this to go anywhere but it doesn't hurt for him to ask. I mean, what's he losing? And he's drawing attention to the stolen Senate seat.