Why does Schumer have to "share power" with McTurtle?

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58. I ate some dinner and got to thinking..

And I thank you for that....

When I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, I was privileged to consort with faculty who saw fit to demean others as a matter of course. This was a measure of their personal inadequacies. The fact of the matter is, as an observer of politics since 1961, my statement that I distinctly remember some thing is quite valid and applicable here at DU. This is a message board, not a PhD thesis. I am under no obligation, and neither is anyone else, to cite chapter and verse on a message board. Rather, what is more appropriate is to discuss particular impressions, memories, aspects of the civilization which appear to the individual to be factual. If you don’t happen to agree with something, that is your certain right, but the notion that you are the arbiter of requiring citations When things don’t go your way is noxious. Everyone here is entitled to their deep-seated feelings, including those of us who feel the Democrats cave too quickly and too much. I will cite for you The incident when Ed Rendell, less than one week after the election of 2000 stated on the Brinkley show, that as head of the DNC, his opinion was it Al Gore should concede the election immediately. No Republican office holder or advisor would ever make that statement in public. This is quite typical of how Democrats act, when we feel that we want to be bigger then the other side.

I found your commentary to be insightful, I am not questioning the rationale for the dealmaking, I am extremely frustrated however that we are always the ones called upon to compromise and the Republicans come out of the box with right upper cuts aimed squarely at the chin. That is my opinion and I am of course entitled to it and in fact it will be borne out, I am certain, to be a valid concern. As a Party, we rarely play hardball which the other side plays artfully. It is no coincidence that the most effective advertising spots during this election cycle were conceived by former architects of the Republican Party’s candidacies, The Lincoln Project. They know how to hate. We need to learn.