If you think the big O stands for overexposed and obnoxious, just wait. Should the Senate remain in Democrat control after Election Day it is likely that Chuck Schumer will take over the deposed Harry Reid's majority leader seat. If that happens you'll quickly learn what real obnoxiousness and overexposure are all about -- directly from the guy who wrote the book.
Sen. Charles Schumer's craving for publicity is well-known to his constituency, 
which, unfortunately includes this renegade scribe. Holding a press conference every Sunday is a long-standing Schumer tactic designed to force the influential New York media, particularly TV stations, to cover his generally insignificant pronouncements (for lack of anything better to do) on what is usually their slowest news day of the week. Thus, Schumer sets up free dissemination of his whiny sound bites and videos that his constituents (and sometimes even non-New Yorkers) see and hear on Mondays.
Many jokes have been told about Schumer's egotism and camera hogging by pundits and fellow politicians. New York City talk radio host and Guardian Angels founder/leader Curtis Sliwa hardly lets a day go by without talking about "lens lice" -- self important camera hogs like "Chuck E. Cheese Schumer". Sliwa also refers to the senator as "The Schlepper" -- a New York-ese pejorative derived from a Yiddish word used to describe a porter or servant and, in this case, someone who drags (schleps) things around with him from place to place.
But the First Lady of Pants Suits, who served alongside Schumer as New York's junior senator, once cracked this gem as she introduced him at a gathering: “What can I say about Senator Schumer that he hasn’t already said?” Hillary Clinton asked. “You know, on the seventh day, the Lord rested and Chuck had a press conference.”
Unfortunately, even those of us who are well aware of Schumer's blatant egotism occasionally fall into his media trap and are forced to listen to one of his nasal whines for the inability to find the remote in time. At a Sunday lens and microphone-hogging session earlier this year the New York Democrat made yet another hollow "personal plea" to the Treasury Department to rule that carry-on bags are a necessity for travel, which would make them exempt from a separate fee outside the ticket price.
"Airline passengers have always had the right to bring a carry-on bag without having to worry about getting nickeled and dimed by an airline company," Schumer whined. "This latest fee is a slap in the face to travelers."
Sure, we'd all like to see the cost of travel stabilize, if not decrease. But fees like these are completely legal. Regardless, the larger point about the future cost of travel -- and nearly everything else -- is that the prices of goods and services will increase dramatically if the remaining Obama agenda items are foisted upon us by Democrats like the self-proclaimed defender of middle class consumers, Chuck Schumer, who helped spearhead the movement to get ObamaCare "passed" against the wishes of the majority of US consumers.
Specifically, if Cap and Tax were to become law, the cost to airline companies for petroleum products will skyrocket, forcing higher fares whether or not they choose to "nickel-and-dime" us additionally for carry-on baggage.
Actually, carrying on is what Chuck Schumer does best. Perhaps you
remember Schumer's other airline hissy fit when he used the B-word on a flight attendant on a Newark-DC Continental Airlines shuttle flight. The attendant was following standard safety procedure but Schumer refused to promptly turn off his cell phone as requested. Instead, the senator whined loud enough for everyone on the plane to hear:
"It’s Harry Reid calling. I guess health care will have to wait until we land.”
In the end, who is really nickel-and-diming American consumers? Of course, it is the government -- more and more each day -- as a result of progressives' eagerness to spend and tax us into oblivion. The shocker, until fairly recently, is that everyone wasn't carrying on about the Obama agenda and the lock-step enablement he has received from similarly arrogant, egotistical politicians like Chuck Schumer.
If the Senate's majority remains with the Democrats and Chuckie gets the nod to replace his cell phone buddy Harry, an overexposed, obnoxious Schumer's popularity will tank deeper and quicker than Pelosi's and Obama's ever did. Middle Americans are traditionally not so fond of obnoxious New Yorkers, for which Schumer is the stereotype.
But then again, and especially after nearly three years of incessant ostensibly purposeless Obama appearances, yet another overexposed narcissistic rhetorical obnox like Schumer will certainly make people want to finish the job on the Democrats in the next election.
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