New York's senators: on the job

Gillibrand at Saks Fifth Avenue, September 2010

Un/underemployment remains at a seemingly permanent 20%, a rapid rise in energy prices threatens to kill off what's left of the US economy, and dangerous lunatics in the Middle East are dragging us into another ill-advised war.  So let's check this morning's headlines to see which of these national crises are top priority for the Finger Lakes' US senators:

Democrat Chuck Schumer is focusing robberies of New York pharmacies, which are running at 1.6 incidents per month statewide, or 0.3 robberies per county per year:

Sen. Chuck Schumer wants people involved in selling prescription drugs on the black market to get the same treatment as mobsters.

The federal racketeering law that allows law enforcement officials to wiretap mobsters also would apply to the drug sellers, under a proposal backed by Schumer, D-N.Y., and several Democratic colleagues.

Our hottest senator, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, is fighting for nationalization of driving age regulations: 

New York should raise to 18 the age that people can obtain unrestricted drivers' licenses — and the rest of the country should follow suit, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand said Tuesday.

Mrs. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said she is rekindling an effort in Congress to require graduated drivers' licenses nationwide, providing limited licenses until teens turn 18.

New York is already spending millions annually for an army of highly paid professionals to deal with both of these local issues.  Schumer is not our police chief, and Gillibrand doesn't work at the DMV.  These pompous twits should concentrate on defending the United States, while there's still a United States to defend.