While he has been very good on some civil liberties issues, he has been weak on others and absolutely dreadful on national security.
If we are lucky, Schumer too will face a credible primary opponent next year, preferably one who can eloquently highlight the New York Senator's dreadful ties to the securities industry and to AIG.
Despite all the familiar fears of failure – of traffic snarl-ups, botched security arrangements and dreadful weather – we have surprised ourselves by staging a global event of infinite complexity with near-perfect success.
But they were much less familiar with the new complicated securities, with unsurprising dreadful results.
Nicky Bull, from Bath, described the airport as "dreadful", saying: "I appreciate all the extra security, but they just could not cope with it … everybody was getting crushed.
Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth insists that the dreadful attrition rate in Helmand is about protecting our national security.
Security, as you would expect after an incident of such dreadful magnitude, was tight.
A pattern of hiring truly dreadful people, ranging from Goldman Sachs lobbyists to private equity executives who worked with banks to bet against their own securities.
