What's amazing and encouraging to me is to see Schumer being so humble. Seems like he's off his high and mighty throne as if he senses that his policies and previous rantings havn't gotten very far. He's trying to soften his approach which is a sign of failure of previous approach(es). Let the 'reasonableness' begin........
I think you're spot on Doc!
The translation of a liberal saying "let's find some common ground" is "I don't have a bit of political strength to do something on this right now, so I'll lower myself to asking you to let me screw you over."