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It's Schumer and Pelosi versus the earlier Schumer and Pelosi.
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Dems’ words about the 2013 government shutdown come back to haunt them — and prove their hypocrisy Jan 21, 2018 by Chris Enloe 2013, Schumer said on CNN’s “The Lead” ... 2013, Schumer said on CNN’s “The Lead”: “I believe in immigration reform. What if I persuaded my caucus to say,‘I’m going to shut the government down, I am going to not pay our bills unless I get my way?’ It’s a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.” Charles Schumer 'This Week' Interview: New York Senator on Government Shutdown ( 4:49 ) ABC News Published on Oct 6, 2013 “The basic line is:No matter how strongly one feels about an issue,you shouldn’t hold millions of people hostage. That’s what the other side is doing. That’s wrong and we can’t give in to that,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.” He further explained: [Then-House] Speaker [John] Boehner comes in and he says, basically,it’s sorta like this.Someone goes into your house, takes your wife and children hostage, and then says ‘Let’s negotiate over the price of your house.’ You know, we could do the same thing on immigration. We believe strongly in immigration reform. We could say,‘We’re shutting down the government, we’re not gonna raise the debt ceiling, until you pass immigration reform.’ It would be governmental chaos. ... At the time, Pelosi called the GOP “legislative arsonists.” “I call them ‘legislative arsonists.’ They’re there to burn down what we should be building up in terms of investments and education and scientific research, and all that it is that makes our country great and competitive,” she said. According to the Washington Examiner, Pelosi later called the shutdown an “unthinkable tactic” employed by the GOP. “I join the American people in their disgust in what happened in terms of the shutdown of government. That’s an unthinkable tactic to use in a political debate,” she said. ...