What Would a Senate Led by Chuck Schumer Look Like?

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PJ Media:

WASHINGTON – With polls leaning toward a Democratic takeover of the Senate, Sen. Chuck Schumer suddenly faces the possibly of morphing into the upper chamber’s most powerful figure, charged with trying to place what many voters disparage as a derailed train back on line.

 

Schumer, Brooklyn born and raised, isn’t as well-known as some of his Empire State colleagues, folks like the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the woman he may wind up working with if she succeeds in her own campaign for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

 

But members of the Democratic caucus profess confidence in his abilities.

 

“I call him the Jewish LBJ,” Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) told the Washington Post.

 

The renowned Lyndon Baines Johnson, Senate Democratic leader in the late 1950s before becoming vice president and, eventually, president is generally upheld as the archetypical Senate majority leader, spirited, tough and relentless.

 

And while Schumer shares some of those qualities, LBJ had something the lawmaker headed for his fourth six-year term won’t – a strong Democratic majority. Navigating a route through ever-rebellious Republicans with major issues pending would stretch anyone’s skills.

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The Chuck Schumer era?