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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052000759.html?hpid=topnews

Democratic New York senator Chuck Schumer is poised to become majority leader

By Jason Horowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 20, 2010; 5:00 AM

On Mother's Day, Chuck Schumer delivered two commencement speeches upstate, flew back to Brooklyn to eat dinner with his wife, mother and daughters and at 7:38 p.m. toted a briefcase into his midtown office for the political ritual known as the Sunday press conference. Picking his way through a line of television cameramen, he joked: "It's like football. No holes. Can't get through," then settled into his habitual spot between a lectern and a ratty blue curtain.

"The Times Square car bomb should be a wake-up call for the administration," Schumer said into a bouquet of microphones, demanding that President Obama increase New York's share of antiterrorism funding. "I'm going to pursue that legislatively."

During his three-decade legislative career, Schumer, 59, has developed a reputation as a razor-elbowed, shamelessly self-serving, media-addicted political monster. He is also arguably the single most effective lawmaker of his generation.

Now, with confidant Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) hanging on to his seat by a thread, the Brooklynite is nearing the goal line of his long game. Succeeding Reid would make Schumer the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history and, more important for the uber-competitive politician, the first among peers. Schumer has thrust himself into the center of issues ranging from jobs to immigration to Supreme Court hearings, but as that momentum has carried him into a more intimate arena where popularity matters, the grating architect of the current Democratic majority has become noticeably more collegial. Perhaps not coincidentally, his colleagues see him as the front-runner to be their leader.


I don't even LIKE Harry Reid, but damn, I hope he can hold onto his seat. Schumer has radical views on Israel and has publicly reprimanded the President on that issue. Schumer is also in bed with Wall Street. His supposed fight for the public option was a craven pander to the netroots, while behind the scenes he did little to keep it in. It will be just very bad all around if he is majority leader. He has repeatedly stabbed Kerry in the back, who btw, has never wanted to be majority leader or even a whip. Maybe if Obama gets re-elected and Hillary resigns as SoS (which is pretty standard -- usually SoS's stay on for one term only), Kerry can get that job. Because having to deal with Schumer will make life a whole heckuva lot less fun, I can tell you.