During the 1980 presidential debates with President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan used that phrase several times when President Carter challenged Reagan’s positions on several subjects. The phrase also came up during President Reagan’s 1984 debate with Walter Mondale.

The phrase “there you go again” comes to mind lately when recalling statements made by our Senior New York United States Senator. During a March 2020 speech in front of the Supreme Court as the justices were hearing a case about a Louisiana abortion law, Senator Schumer fiercely challenged, some say threatened, the court stating “I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” I doubt if we would have ever heard such an outbreak from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who served New York from 1977 until 2001 in the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” In June that year a man who allegedly told police that he wanted to kill Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the Supreme Court justice’s Maryland home.

Recently on March 14th during 40-minute speech from the well of the Senate Senator Schumer basically called for new elections in Israel, saying “At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.” “I believe that holding a new election once the war starts to wind down would give Israelis an opportunity to express their vision for the post-war future.” “If Prime Minister Netanyahu’s current coalition remains in power after the war begins to wind down, and continues to pursue dangerous and inflammatory policies that test existing US standards for assistance, then the United States will have no choice but to play a more active role in shaping Israeli policy by using our leverage to change the present course.”

President Biden praised Schumer’s speech while many Americans recall administration statements that no country should be interfering in another country’s elections.

Maybe it’s time for term limits?