Chucku Schumer has got the same New York DNA-they are pretty much identical personalities.
"I don’t know the details, but I know him [Weiner] to be a person of integrity and I am virtually certain he had nothing to do with this." -- U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), 5/31/11
It's one thing to stand up for a fellow Democrat for purely partisan reasons, but these are the kinds of people who take it very personally when they go out on a limb and end up looking like complete jack@sses.