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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is soon to become Senate Minority Leader. The competition is stiff, but Schumer must be one of the most vile and conscienceless Democrats in contemporary politics. He has certainly earned recognition in the Department of Evil Clowns. He should be enough all by himself to turn a decent person off to politics.

I have occasionally documented his offenses against public decency or ordered thought in posts headed “Schuminations.” Who can forget his classic threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh? It was only four years ago. It would be sufficient to trigger a visit from the FBI if Schumer were an average working stiff instead of the Senate’s evil clown.

Now that the Senate’s evil clown is about to exercise his leadership in the minority, he has formulated Schumer’s golden rule: “Please don’t do to us what we were going to do to you.” This was Schumer’s post-election word cloud of last week:

“Another closely contested election now comes to an end,” he said. “To my Republican colleagues, I offer a word of caution in good faith: Take care not to misread the will of the people, and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation may be to go to the extreme. We’ve seen that happen over the decades, and it has consistently backfired on the party in power. So, instead of going to the extremes, I remind my colleagues that this body is most effective when it’s bipartisan. If we want the next four years in the Senate to be as productive as the last four, the only way that will happen is through bipartisan cooperation.”

Gag city. This is Byron York’s translation in the linked column:

The short version of that is: Please don’t do to us what we were going to do to you. Schumer is obviously concerned that Republicans might embrace a scheme to eliminate the filibuster and pass all sorts of consequential legislation with no Democratic input at all. That wouldn’t be bipartisan! Fortunately for Schumer, Republicans have been more principled than Democrats when it comes to the legislative filibuster, and to the filibuster in general. Republicans realize that even though they will have the majority for the next two years, they might be back in the minority at any time after that. So Schumer will not get it good and hard the way he planned to give it to Republicans.

The filibuster has always been the subject of hypocrisy in the Senate. The late Sen. Fred Thompson used to explain it this way: When we are in the majority, the filibuster is bad. When we are in the minority, the filibuster is good. It’s an issue that some lawmakers hop back and forth on, depending on whether their party is in the majority or minority.

But Schumer’s brand of hypocrisy is particularly egregious. He was not advocating whether this or that individual bill should or should not be filibustered. That goes on all the time. He was advocating changing Senate rules, on an entirely partisan basis, to eliminate the minority party’s ability to demand a higher standard of approval for controversial legislation. And then, when Schumer’s party loses, he instantly turns around and becomes Mr. Bipartisanship.

For that, there should be a word that goes beyond mere hypocrisy.

The word is Schumination.