"If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell." So wrote the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, "The Aeneid."

At the moment, congressional Democrats can’t move heaven, and they are not raising hell either. And polls show that raising hell is precisely what their voters want Democrats in Washington to do.

Sixty-five percent of Democrats told an NBC News poll last week that they want congressional Democrats to raise hell in opposition to President Trump and “stick to their positions even if that means not getting things done in Washington.”

People who voted for Democrats are tired of hearing comedian Bill Maher quip that a mule symbolizes Democrats because “it’s the other thing that just stands there when you beat it.”

That too-close-to-the-truth humor brings us to the case of Senate Minority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-N.Y.). He just voted for a Trump-backed plan to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year. It will keep the government open, but it also gives Trump more power to slash government programs.

Why did Schumer run away when he should have stood up to Trump’s power grab? Without congressional approval, Trump is already wildly firing federal workers, shutting down federal agencies and pulling federal funding.

Schumer decided it was best to go with Trump’s power grab and keep the government open.

The fury from Democrats nationally was so intense that Schumer had to cancel stops on his book tour.

"If we ended up in a shutdown, three weeks from now people would come to me and say, 'They just........

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