CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued his attacks on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show, calling his recent actions around the impending end to the government shutdown “obviously a failure of leadership.”
Citing an article from CBS, Colbert lamented, “Things are getting chilly up on Capitol Hill. After a small group of Democrats voted with Republicans to end the shutdown. To end the shutdown without restoring health care subsidies, Democratic leadership is taking heat from the rank-and-file. Chuck Schumer, who is supposed to be the leader of the Senate Democrats, reportedly gave the deal quote ‘neither a blessing nor a curse, and it did not direct senators on how they should vote.’”
Colbert then introduced an edited clip from Bravehart by sarcastically praising Schumer for his “Bold leadership! Reminds me of the stirring words of William Wallace.”
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