Greenwald on Chuck Schumer

I don't know anything about Charles Freeman. Glenn Greenwald writes about The agenda of Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about his history of confirmation votes.

"You can break the law when spying on Americans.  You can store massive amounts of data about the activities of American citizens without the Congress authorizing or even knowing about it. You can give cover to torture, endorse the idea that Americans can be imprisoned without charges, and assert that the President can attack Iran without Congressional authority.  You can advocate aggressive wars against Iraq and Iran and even take positions too extremist and belligerent even for the Bush administration. That's all perfectly fine for Chuck Schumer.  All of that is perfectly consistent with occupying the highest and most powerful positions in Government.

But you can't make 'statements against Israel.'  Even for far less important and influential positions, even for positions that require far-ranging debates of ideas, that will cause Chuck Schumer to call Rahm Emanuel and -- echoing the views of the further-right members of the Senate -- demand that you be disqualified from serving in the American government, and then run around boasting that making 'over-the-top' statements 'against Israel' is the supreme sin in American politics. Chuck Schumer represents nothing other than the rotted ways of Washington. "

I like Schumer's politics, but I'm liking him less and less when he speaks. I saw him with Lindsay Graham on a sunday morning show I think last weekend, and I was impressed with how useless both of their statements were.