Schumer Smoking Latest Herb Off The Boat

The only way I can think to justify Senator Chuck Schumer of New York's latest line of totally insane commentary is to assume he's rockin' the ganj. Check this from NRO.

Chuck Schumer went to visit the New York Daily News today, Ben Smith reports, and declared that the GOP doesn't comprehend the trouble it's in because "they don't realize that Reaganomics is dead, that the Reagan philosophy is dead."

According to Schumer, "The old Reagan theory which dominated — which is, 'Government is bad, it's out of touch, chop off its hands as soon as it moves.' — is over."Interestingly, he contrasted this supposed blindness with his party's own philosophical weakness: "We realize that New Deal democracy, which is still our paradigm, which is sort of appeal to each group ... that doesn't work any more."

Yes, that's the same Reaganomics that has given us the lowest unemployment in a decade, a period of growth that surpasses even the "Roaring '90's" and the largest tax receipts ever seen. Apparently, Chuck's version of "dead" doesn't quite square with the average coroner.

The Reagan philosophy of limited government, personal responsibility and increased individual liberty, which by the way was pretty much how we lived until his beloved "New Deal" is anything but dead and is more relevant today than it ever has been, even as people like Schumer try to strip it from us. Perhaps it is his threat to us, that we'd better kiss goodbye the thought of individual freedom, because now the Democrats are going to show us what a true nanny state really is.

Oh, but he said New Deal democracy doesn't work anymore, you say. Doesn't that mean he's turned over a whole new leaf? Looking at his leftist voting record, I'm left to conclude that he figures it didn't go far enough. Now you're going to see what their Real Deal will do to you. And if you think you had high payroll taxes, property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes and vice taxes before, wait til you see what they've got in store for you!