Chuck Schumer: Focus on Obamacare was wrong.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Schumer is horrible.


That said, he did have some good points. Plus having actually watch his statement or at least most of it, I think his point was that the Democrats should have done a bunch of economic related things first and then proceeded to advance to healthcare. He also acknowledged that letting the Republicans control the messaging on the bill created the opening for Republicans.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Schumer is an idiot.  It's Democrats like him that make people stay home on election day.

His underlying theme is close to what the Democrats should focus on (as I said in the other thread) but neither Clinton, nor himself are the ones to sell it to the people.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

And realistically, how many house/senate seats would the Dems have now without Obamacare? Would they really still have control of the Senate? I actually doubt it.

Democrats expected that the numbers would prevent them from losing, especially on this scale after 2008. Schumer even says that Republicans will ensure a Democratic majority sooner or later. His theory is that Republicans would not have been able to claim the Democrats were distracted from the economy by focusing on healthcare. As he said, the Republican have nothing to offer a country with falling incomes because they are philosophically opposed to useing gov't as a solution and therefore whenever Democrats advocate using the gov't to solve problems and Republicans do nothing or at least nothing coherent, the voters will give the Democrats a solid a majority in 2016.