Democratic Senators Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, and Charles Schumer look on as the
Senate Judiciary Committee issues new subpoenas in the Russian election meddling investigation.

Chuck Schumer had a public eleventh-hour epiphany:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a thinly veiled message to Hillary Clinton, saying that “you blame yourself” if you “lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity.” Schumer never explicitly mentioned Clinton but there was little doubt who he was talking about while discussing the broad effort by the Democratic Party to come up with a new messaging strategy ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

“When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things — Comey, Russia — you blame yourself,” Schumer said in an interview with the Washington Post.

That means that when Americans finally realize that the "Russian-interference-in-the-Election" story is politically concocted bullshit — they won't be able to point a finger at Chuck Schumer. He got himself rehabilitated just in time. Schumer will point to the Deep State Neocons who signed off on the logically insupportable propaganda. Even the internet security industry is pushing back on the "evidence" and getting some professional distance on the geopolitical mess that has resulted.

Meanwhile, Schumer was plying the news circuit on the weekend touting the Democratic Party's new "messaging strategy," which sounds nothing like the austerity policies and the "no can do" attitudes that it has pushed upon the American People in recent decades. Monday's grand unveiling of the Party's new and improved economic platform is eagerly anticipated by pundits, in part for its hyperbolic slogan bubble that promises to launch a thousand parodies:

And, the debut gets even Better:

Did you know that single payer health care was always on the table? It turns out single payer was never really impossible, after all. According to Schumer, when it came to proposing positive policies for a stable health care system, the Democratic Party was just “too cautious.” And, there was all that donor money from Big Pharma and the health insurers thatl was still in play. But it's a new day:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) argued Sunday that it’s time for the Democratic party to take a “bold” approach on economic issues, adding that a single-payer health care system is “on the table.”

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Schumer offered a preview of the economic agenda his party plans to roll out this week. He acknowledged that the prime reason that Democrats failed to win over voters in the 2016 election was their unfocused economic message. The coalition plans to change that he said.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pressed Schumer on whether that would include support for a single-payer health care system, in which the government would pay for care, rather than private insurance companies.

“We’re going to look at broader things [for health care],” he said. “Single-payer is one of them.. Many things are on the table. Medicare for people above 55 is on the table. A buy-in to Medicare is on the table. Buy-in to Medicaid is on the table. On the broader issues, we will start examining them once we stabilize the [health care] system.”

Until now, Schumer has mostly declined to weigh in on whether he thinks a universal program is the right approach.

Does this mean the Democratic Party now repudiates its failed neoliberal policies? For decades they collaborated to deregulate, privatize, monetize, and globalize public utilities and Federal programs that were originally designed to protect society and enhance the economic security of the American people. Does this mean the New Deal is back? Not yet. It's been stripped apart over the years and Americans are now caught in in a long cycle of intensifying austerity; the threat of brutal cuts to the nation's social safety net always hangs over them. The Millennials are facing a bitter, dystopean future where they will be dogged to the end of their days by crippling student debt. Does the Democratic Party have a plan to end this middle class nightmare that their policies engendered? By what mechanism?

Democrats are keeping their cards close to their chest for now but Schumer said on ABC’s This Week that the goal is to appeal to both the Obama coalition and the voters that abandoned the party in favor of Trump. “Week after week, month after month, we're going to roll out specific pieces here, that are quite different than the Democratic Party you heard in the past,” Schumer said. “We were too cautious. We were too namby-pamby.”

So, who exactly are the Dems Schumer is talking about? Does the "Obama coalition" refer to people who voted for Hillary, while the latter group is the disenfranchised blue collar workers who saw their unions crushed? Finding a "messaging strategy" that would work for both is very tricky business — these groups have widely divergent interests. One is Neoliberal progressive and the other is union-oriented working class. One leans socially liberal and the other leans socially conservative. That's gotta be some strategic messaging — because the working class will not be easily tricked, again.

And the American Left? They form the authentic umbrella of humanity that spans the Democratic Party. They carry the promise that all will survive and none will be permitted to asset strip the people or the state. Yet the Left is pointedly blocked from the discussions because they are also the real globalists; they are the one's who are inspired to travel the world for the sake of humanity in need. They are the independent witnesses to the horrific carnage that the US inflicts upon the world, images and ideas that are filtered out by the US media monopolies. They bear witness to the US war crimes and keep a moral tally on corporate war profiteering. Therefore, the Left is shut out culturally, despite their election-blocking numbers.

Not once on the weekend was the Left mentioned by this Lord of the Democratic establishment, or by his corporate media cohorts. There was not one word about the bloody US wars that are displacing millions worldwide and sucking the US treasuries dry. The topic is taboo. The Democratic Party's twisted and immoral alliance with the Deep State Neocons grows more depraved with each passing day. They actually think that we are not aware that the real cost of their mad quest for global Empire. The money lavished on the war industry profiteers is the very thing that annihilates all possibility of social and economic progress for the 99 percent. Social mobility continues on its steady dive.

These Party usurpers really believe they are going to get away with this, monopolizing a system that requires the thinking of a younger generation. From the outside looking in, they appear anachronistic and slow. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi puts her own clueless point on it:

The new plan is not a course correction…. it’s a presentation correction.

Unbelievable.