What’s up, Chuck?
President Donald Trump has taken a good bit of grief for suggesting what the country needs is a military parade.
Elected Democrats and others have had a field day. The former SEAL Team Six member who killed Osama Bin Laden tweeted it was “third world bull–.” Former Army Ranger Andrew Exum, a native of Chattanooga, said in an article in The Atlantic, “Americans don’t have a problem of appreciating the military too little. Americans have a problem venerating the military too much.”
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.? Well, he can’t say a whole lot. After all, he called for a military parade of sorts in 2014. It would have been a ticker tape parade in New York City that would have marked the end of combat operations in Afghanistan and thanked participants for their efforts. It was to include military brass, color guards, military bands and flyovers.
This is the same Schumer who could only fume when Trump Cabinet nominees were approved by majority votes because his predecessor, Harry Reid, changed the rules. And this is the same Schumer who received the lion’s share of the blame when the government was shut down recently because he demanded the legalization of illegal immigrant children.