The oh-so-progressive Senior Senator for New York relucantly took a seat with the hoi-polloi on fifty minute flight.
SEN. Chuck Schumer is still taking a back seat to New York junior Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton – as evidenced by their seats on the 8 p.m. U.S. Air shuttle from Washington to New York last week. As Schumer shuffled aboard, he spotted Clinton tucked into the window seat in the first row of first class and Rep. Charlie Rangel in the aisle seat in the row behind her. Schumer then trudged off to coach, booming that he was “going to sit with the regular people,” reports The Post’s Ian Bishop.
Power to the People, Chuck. (from Page Six, reg necessary but don’t we all already have it?)
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13 Comments
1. richard mcenroe:What the hell did the regular people do to deserve that?
Jul 20, 2005 - 7:34 am 2. JohnAnnArbor:booming that he was “going to sit with the regular people,”
How self-conciously pretentious can you get, Chuck?
Jul 20, 2005 - 7:41 am 3. RBMN:I’m sure Sen. Clinton thinks that a first class seat on a commercial shuttle is humiliation enough–almost as bad as having to live in Little Rock.
Jul 20, 2005 - 8:03 am 4. Barry Dauphin:No matter what, Chuckie boy manages to get quoted.
Jul 20, 2005 - 8:13 am 5. Kevin P:Roger:
Chuckie doesn’t do the prole hero schtick very well. He may think he is Danton but he comes off like a 10th in the line of succesion prince.
Kevin Peters
Jul 20, 2005 - 10:04 am 6. Fausta:Rich Galen observes,
In the 1955 movie, “Mr. Roberts” Henry Fonda’s title character says of the character played by James Cagney, “I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel, but where did they ever scrape you up?”
Much the same can be said of Chuck Schumer. If you look closely enough you can see barnacle marks on his butt.
Ouch, and ouch again.
Jul 20, 2005 - 10:07 am 7. Kyda Sylvester:Chuck Schumer first appeared on my radar screen as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during impeachment. He stated pubicly and unequivocally at the time that not only would he not vote to impeach Clinton based on the evidence presented, but were he a senator, he would not vote to remove Clinton from office.
Fast forward to the impeachment trial. Chuck is now Senator Schumer and instead of recusing himself from the proceedings given that his mind was made up long ago, Schumer instead swears an oath to render impartial justice in the case. That was as much as I ever needed to know about Chuck Schumer.
His constituents are devoted to him, however, which proves once again that there’s simply no accounting for taste.
Jul 20, 2005 - 11:15 am 8. someone:Funny, the only place I ever see Schumer is in the ritziest boxes of the Metropolitan Opera.
(Seriously.)
Jul 20, 2005 - 11:32 am 9. everyman:Interesting tale about people for whom I have little regard. But then, there’s this, from the website of U.S. Airways: First is not offered on US Airways Express flights.
We have to be careful, Mr. Simon.
Jul 20, 2005 - 12:52 pm 10. richard mcenroe:At least Schumer admits he’s irregular… hmm. maybe not the best guy to share an airline seat with…
Jul 20, 2005 - 4:37 pm 11. Knucklehead:His constituents are devoted to him, however, which proves once again that there’s simply no accounting for taste.
Oh, man, Kyda – ain’t that the truth. What is it they like about that greasey, rubber-faced, egotisical, mental-masturbatin’ blowhard? Just freakin’ bafflin’, that’s what it is.
Jul 20, 2005 - 5:58 pm 12. richard mcenroe:Knucklehead รณ They’uh from Noo Yawk Citteh…
Seriously, they’re used to politicians that are no talk and no results. Remember the traffic sign from The Simpsons: “Welcome to New York: Home of the World-Weary Poseur”
Jul 20, 2005 - 7:37 pm 13. dick:Trust me, not all his constituents love him. I personally hate the b***tard. I think D’Amato was right when he called Schumer a putz!!
When I read your posting all I could think of was why didn’t that plane crash!! The country would have been much better for it. I don’t like myself for thinking that but I did.
Jul 20, 2005 - 10:36 pm