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March 21, 2026

I'll Have a Manhattan on the Rocks

Timothy Birdnow

Chuck Schumer, Leader of the Senate Democrats, is on the rocks as a full blown revolt seems to be brewing in his caucus.

You might say Chuck's a Manhattan on the rocks.

His underlings are growing increasingly desperate as Schumer's schemes keep backfiring and I have little doubt internal polling shows this TSA shutdown is being blamed on the Democrats (which is why we are not seeing any polling about the shutdown in the news). They have about had enough of his Old Fashioned approach.

From the P.J. Media article:

According to this latest report, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) sat down to dinner with progressive activists at a French restaurant in Georgetown last month, during which Murphy told the group that some lawmakers had already done informal vote counts to gauge whether enough support existed to remove Schumer from leadership.

Murphy added that Schumer had the votes to survive — for now.

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Despite Murphy’s attempts to downplay the situation, more than four dozen interviews with Democratic senators, candidates, current and former aides, activists, and advisers point to the same conclusion: concern about Schumer's leadership is widespread and growing.

Bear in mind Schumer couldn't be playing any harder ball than he already is; he's shut down the branch of government tasked with stopping terrorism at a time when we are at war with the world's top sponsor of terrorism. What more can Schumer do? So it isn't that.

I have little doubt Schumer is the one pushing the shutdown because he fears a backlash by the lunatic fringe in his party. And the rest of the Democrats in the Senate probably realize this is killing them.

I find this little nugget interesting:

Donor frustration with Schumer has already been hurting a super PAC aligned with the Democratic leader, donors and consultants said. Senate Majority PAC was outraised by the Republican leadership-aligned super PAC last year; the Democratic super PAC started 2026 with $36 million in the bank and $12.4 million in debt, while its GOP counterpart had $100 million and no debt, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Well, well, well....

Have donations dropped off OR has the Trump Administration disrupted the flow of dark money that the Democras were receiving through nefarious means, like Somali daycares or foreign aid handed out by USAID? I've long believed the Democrats have always been flush with cash because they were gaming the system, stealing taxpayer dollars and laundering it back to themselves. Trump and Musk have disrupted that flow and now the Democrats are struggling to raise money. Surprise?

It's certainly not Schumer's fault; he tried to save the embezzlement but couldn't do it.

The article blames the radicals in the Democratic Party for Schumer's problems and they are unquestionably a big part of that - they want Schumer to invade the White House with troops to seize Trump and hang him from the roof of the building. Schumer knows he can't oppose Trump any more than he has but the radicals are insane and want blood. But they are not his ultimate problem; it's the moderate (for Democrats) Senators who see disaster looming and want to fix it. Yes, they want the money the crazies donate, but those donations aren't the bulk of their funding anyway. The bulk comes from people like George Soros, or Big Tech, or the dwindling labor movement. And Trump has co-opted many working class folks, the traditional base of the Democrats.

No, I think the problem is that the Democrats are swimming against the tide, promoting illegal aliens over native born Americans, pushing increased taxes and regulations in an era where the public wants things to be cheaper, and now this government shutdown which is intentionally designed to cause pain to the American People in a hail-mary pass designed to change the narrative and force the President to bow to their will about illegal aliens (their base now). The public just isn't buying it. Americans overwhelmingly support the changes to immigration Trump has made. OH, and crime dropped to the lowest level we have seen in a hundred years; that doesn't hurt the GOP either.

Schumer is between a rock and hard place.

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