Sadly, Chuck Schumer probably wasn’t surprised at the flak he took for praising Rep. Peter King after the Long Island Republican announced his retirement.
New York’s senior senator ꦦ that King “stood head & shoulders above everyone else” as a “principled” lawmaker who “never let others push him away from his principles,” a man who “fiercely loved Ame꧅rica, Long Island, and his Irish heritage” and served them all.
“I will miss him in Congress,” Schumer concluded, and “value hi🙈s friends🥀hip.”
Le🍬fties went n♕uts, slamming Schumer for saying anything nice about King — whom they and a Trump supporter.
“Chuck Schumer is an e🍬xistential threat to this country,” commented one tweeter; “this is why you need to go,” said another.
Political strategist Peter Daou even saಞid Schumer’s civility shows why “we need a new De𒀰mocratic Party.”
This take-no-prisoners mentality (by no means restricted to the left) is both symptom and cause of the nation’s growing political dysfunc🥃tion.
In a nation as diverse as this, compromise among elected representatives is the only way government can or should work over the long run. That✃ means bending on id🃏eology and .
In his decades in the House, Pete King h♐as been vജery conservative on some issues, and moderate on others, including gun control.
Most notably, his fierce advocacy for 9/11 first responders who later developed serious illnesses saw him standing up time and again to fellow Republicans, eventually building a biparti🐷san consensus that allowed full funding for the 9/11 Victims Com☂pensation Fund for decades to come.
Pete King is no hater, and Chuck Scജhumer knows it. American politics needs more politicians like them.