Barbella
Senator
but, as always, ignored, denied, or glossed over (“that’s different!”) by their sheeple acolytes:
In 2006, the current and future Democratic Senate leaders, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, initially resisted a comprehensive reform package sponsored by McCain and Kennedy because, Frank Sharry says, “all they cared about was winning back the Senate, and they didn’t want to hand Bush a victory.” But when it failed in the House and was replaced by a bill to build several hundred miles of secure fencing along the border, both Democratic leaders voted for it — as did Hillary Clinton and Obama, both senators at the time.
A year later, the Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress, and Gutiérrez thought the moment was ripe for immigration legislation. “I go to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and I say, ‘I got this bill,’ ” he recalled. “She says, ‘Go find me 45 to 50 Republicans who’ll sign onto the bill, and come back and we’ll talk.’ I’m like: What the [expletive]? We’re, like, in the majority. Why do I have this onus on me? But I knew why. Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to put the majority at risk.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/the-democrats-have-an-immigration-problem.html
In 2006, the current and future Democratic Senate leaders, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, initially resisted a comprehensive reform package sponsored by McCain and Kennedy because, Frank Sharry says, “all they cared about was winning back the Senate, and they didn’t want to hand Bush a victory.” But when it failed in the House and was replaced by a bill to build several hundred miles of secure fencing along the border, both Democratic leaders voted for it — as did Hillary Clinton and Obama, both senators at the time.
A year later, the Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress, and Gutiérrez thought the moment was ripe for immigration legislation. “I go to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and I say, ‘I got this bill,’ ” he recalled. “She says, ‘Go find me 45 to 50 Republicans who’ll sign onto the bill, and come back and we’ll talk.’ I’m like: What the [expletive]? We’re, like, in the majority. Why do I have this onus on me? But I knew why. Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to put the majority at risk.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/the-democrats-have-an-immigration-problem.html
