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BACK TO CHUCK. DAVID HARSANYI: Chuck Schumer’s bad shutdown bet. One can certainly appreciate Schumer being tempted by a shutdown. It allows him to show a little “fight.” Polls continue to find Republicans leading on every issue that matters to voters, including the economy, immigration, and crime. Democrats still want to make the fight about President Donald Trump, who, at a 46% job approval rating on the RealClearPolitics average, is faring slightly better than the recent historical average for second-term presidencies. At this point, if Democrats agree to a deal without any concessions from Republicans — or at least, the government partially closing for a few days — they risk looking weak and feckless to the activists. But empty gestures aren’t always harmless. One of the self-destructive habits of the pre-Trump GOP was overpromising the base, creating the impression it could achieve things that were never going to happen, among them overturning Obamacare. Democratic leadership is now engaged in the same cycle. In every one of the 21 government shutdowns since the passage of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the opposition party has controlled at least one house of Congress or the White House. The Democrats do not. The opposition party in Congress can’t really do much but attempt to obstruct. Though the Left endlessly grumbled about “obstructionism” during the Obama years, it’s a perfectly legitimate tool. But the leverage Democrats hold today is minimal. The upside of the shutdown, negligible. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3830403/chuck-schumer-bad-government-shutdown-bet/ I suppose “negligible” was also Schumer’s only possible upside, so he went for it. The best part, however, is watching Schumer walk eyes-open right into the trap Dems used to set for Republicans. .

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DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF RADICAL CHIC AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The Chicago Teachers Union Is Exactly Who You Thought They Were. If you spend any time on social media, you have likely heard about the latest outrage from my city’s Cthulhu-like public sector behemoth, the Chicago Teachers Union: On Friday afternoon, to note the death of radical left-wing Sixties terrorist Assata Shakur (born Joanne Chesimard) in Cuba, the CTU’s X account issued the following statement: Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur. Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle. Assata refused to be silenced. She taught us that “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Keep in mind, as Noah Rothman eloquently explained yesterday afternoon, that Shakur was a cop-killer who escaped from prison to live the rest of her days in a totalitarian country. My readers tend to be a fairly savvy bunch, so I suspect many of you are asking yourselves why a teachers’ union would have felt the need to celebrate the passing of an infamous American terrorist murderer. (For those wondering — because it occurred to me to check — Shakur was never a teacher herself, unless her job was to instruct people in criminal undertakings.) But while this question may puzzle out-of-towners, it makes all the sense in the world to us locals. The Chicago Teachers Union is (as I have explained many times in these pages) arguably the single most radical major union in America, a throbbing, graft-bloated parasite attached to Chicago city government the way a tick burrows deep into a pig. And much like a tick, the CTU isn’t content merely to suck money out of the city’s taxpayers. It gives back as well — in the form of Mayor Brandon Johnson, former CTU lobbyist and current laughingstock of America. https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-chicago-teachers-union-is-exactly-who-you-thought-they-were/