The Atlantic: Chuck Schumer's Cure for Democrats

[LiberalElite]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/chuck-schumers-cure-for-democrats/383175/

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The New York senator, a longtime ally of the party's Wall Street wing, now says it must return to its "pro-government" roots in 2016.
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[Thinkingabout]

1. Getting back to Democrat basic ideas would be a good move.

Exposing the GOP refusal to sit and talk about simple issues as minimum wage increase would help those struggling perhaps with children and trying to have two or more jobs and still failing to provide for their children. Higher wages would put more money on the street, more products demanded and the economy starts rolling.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. And of curse Schumer's just the boy to lead us…

back into the slaughter.

[craigmatic]

3. I'm sick of Schumer. He's a publicity hound more than anything. I wish Feingold was still in office.

Now there was a guy who had good ideas.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Schumer is part of the Dems'

problems. He is hardly the leader needed for a cure.

But I do agree that Dems should make the excellent case that exists for government because so far they have mostly let GOPers make the case against and rolled over to do so.

Spine transfusions are very badly needed for many, including Schumer.

[hollowdweller]

5. I think he's right.

In 2008 Obama should have used the financial crisis, public goodwill toward him and his election, combined with the bully pulpit to permanently discredit trickle down and deregulation, in the same way Reagan used inflation and the dems handling of the economy to destroy and discredit liberalisim in the early 80's.

Instead he tried to reach across the aisle and make nice.

However Schumer also notes the ways that would be hard, since any time a gov't program has some sort of a glitch like the solar tax credits, the IRS, etc the GOP and the media use it as an excuse to discredit any gov't intervention.

To Obama's credit he has really done a lot to try to police gov't programs to make them more efficient and work better, but this is reported in a way that it makes it look like the GOP is right rather than that gov't is getting good at self policing.

Also many of the successes are not being adequately reported or pimped in a coordinated manner by members of congress interacting with the media.

I really hope the dems figure this out.