This week’s quote comes to us from none other than the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the lede paragraph from a story about progressive Democratic senators plotting to unseat their minority leader, Chuck Schumer:
Sen. Chris Murphy was dining with progressive activists at a French restaurant in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood when the conversation about how to advance their legislative priorities turned to a thorny question: what to do about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
- What struck us here at YSDA about that sentence?
A) We didn’t know progressives wanted to oust Schumer.
B) We didn’t know there were progressives in Georgetown.
C) We didn’t know progressives dined at fancy French restaurants.
D) We didn’t know progressives were dumb enough to tell the Wall Street Journal that they were plotting against Schumer at a French restaurant in Georgetown.
2. What’s the main problem with the Democratic Party today?
A) It’s too centered on getting a fair break for working people across America.
B) It’s too focused on giving everybody access to affordable health care.
C) It’s too obsessed with protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare.
D) It’s most influential progressive leaders all live in Georgetown or similar places and dine in elegant French restaurants where they discuss how to advance obscure and unpopular social causes.
3. The average Americans that progressives say they want to help:
A) Dine frequently at restaurants with names like L’ Etoile.
B) Prefer high end Italian cuisine.
C) Need to economize by only frequenting one star Michelan restaurants.
D) Eat at McDonald’s.
4. Which of these is NOT among the gripes about Schumer voiced by those Georgetown progressives who love French cuisine?
A) He’s favoring moderates in Democratic primaries because they have a better chance of beating Republicans in November.
B) He’s not fighting Trump hard enough, never mind that he’s keeping part of the government shut down at the bequest of the hard-left and yet having the only effect of keeping TSA personnel from a paycheck without having the slightest impact on ICE, the target of progressive rage.
C) He can’t tell a great Beaujolais from an inferior one to save his life.
D) He’s 75-years old.
5. Murphy and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are said to be among a group of hard-left senators testing the waters to see if Schumer might be replaced. What’s their group called?
A) The Fight Club.
B) The Wine Club.
C) The Book Club.
D) The Decemberists.
6. The debate about Schumer is part of a broader split in his party between:
A) Those who prefer nouveau cuisine and advocates of cuisine classique.
B) Those who believe the best Beaujolais is the traditionally light, fruity, and early-released Beaujolais Nouveau and those who stand by the more structured, age-worthy, terroir-driven Cru Beaujolais.
C) Devotees of Chez Billy Sud and those loyal to La Grande Boucherie.
D) Those who want to win elections and those who want to sound smart and righteous at Georgetown parties.
Answers
1: D
2: D
3: D
4: C, but Schumer’s lack of wine sense is also a major concern for progressives.
5: A
6: D
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