Schumer’s Tantrum: One Purple Crayon Away from a Shutdown

By David Manney

 

Chuck Schumer has 63 crayons. He’s got funding for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense, Education, Infrastructure, Emergency Services, and half a dozen more he can barely keep track of. But you take one purple crayon away, say, $9.4 billion in spending from a $6 trillion government purse, and Chuck doesn’t reach for a reason. He goes for the matches.

The Senate majority leader is stomping around in diapered outrage, threatening a full-blown government shutdown because House Republicans dared to introduce a rescissions package that trims a fraction of a percent from the federal budget. Not 5%. Not 1%. 

Less than two-tenths of one percent.

You wouldn’t burn down the house over a misplaced couch cushion. But Washington isn’t rational. It’s theatrical. And Chuck Schumer isn’t behaving like a leader. He’s throwing a tantrum in the toy aisle and daring anyone to stop him…

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