Yesterday, Chuck Schumer, the senior Senator from New York, took to the Senate floor and inexplicably denied any success of the surge in Iraq, when even elected members of his own party who have been staunch critics of the President's Iraq policy have come back from inspection tours of Iraq touting the surge's success.  But he did so in a way that slandered the American troops, denying they were involved in anything that could be perceived to be a success regarding the surge.  Here's what Rush called this morning Schumer's macaca moment:

The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda, said to these tribes: "We have to fight al Qaeda ourselves."

Again, Schumer is saying the only perceived success in the al-Anbar region is specifically due to the failure of our American troops. 

Today, Schumer again rose to speak on the floor of the Senate, and attempted to walk back from what he said yesterday.  You can see the video for yourself.  Here's his three minute prepared statement he read:

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