Chuckie Schumer Speaks with Forked Tongue

It has long been said that the most dangerous place in America is to be between Chuckie Schumer and a TV camera. Chuckie has been running around trying to look like some sort of statesmen and insisting that if the President just simply negotiate with him and his allies, there shouldn't be any problems getting his kind of nominee approved. Of course, his kind would be a staunch left-wing liberal, and anything else would be unacceptable.

However, there are two Chuckies: the public "statesman" Chuckie, and the private "wacko" Chuckie, as evidenced by this cellphone conversation overheard on an Amtrak train and reported today on Drudge:

Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer got busy plotting away on the cellphone aboard a Washington, DC-New York Amtrak -- plotting Democrat strategy for the upcoming Supreme Court battle.

Schumer promised a fight over whoever the President’s nominee was: “It's not about an individual judge… It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court.”

The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!

Schumer proudly declared: “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”

Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”

Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.

“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”

By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.

Byron York has more on Chuckie here. It's worth reading to see what's really going on.