Schumer and the Double Standard ... But I Repeat Myself.

Fron NR Online:

In this New York Times flashback, Charles Schumer is complaining about Al D'Amato's role in investigating Whitewater while running the NRSC. Today, of course, Schumer is hot on the U.S. attorneys mess in the Senate, while running the DSCC.

October 18, 1998, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
THE 1998 CAMPAIGN: THE SENATE;
Schumer and D'Amato Look for an Edge
BYLINE: By ADAM NAGOURNEY

..."Do you know what he did right after he got elected?" Mr. Schumer said. "He became chairman of the national Senate Republican Campaign Committee, the most blatantly political position you can hold. Then, shortly after that, he embarked on his partisan and political inquisition of the First Family....