Barack Obama’s address to Congress on Feb. 24 included only one clearly partisan shot at the rowdy Republicans in the chamber, but it was that line, a reference to “the deficits we inherited,” that prompted Senator Chuck Schumer to leap out of his seat like a contestant on The Price Is Right and laugh and point at his colleagues across the aisle.
In contrast to a White House that likes to try and depict itself as post- or bipartisan, Mr. Schumer is an unrepentant partisan warrior, the conquering political hero who led the Democrats to a majority in the Senate in 2006 and then expanded it in 2008.
