Chuck Schumer: Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

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91. This is exactly, exactly the way to approach this.

Our relationships with politicians are policy oriented and transactional. The virtue of being in a leadership position does not innocculate one from criticism and, in fact, should require a higher moral standard.

Sen. Schumer has been in the Senate for a long time, and is an excellent fundraiser. He is responsible for a number of members getting elected to the Senate, but those days are behind him.

The world changed, and Schumer did not. Worse, he seems to be somewhat blind to the fact that he is out of step with his party.

He was the junior partner with Speaker Emerita Pelosi - it was quite apparent during any of their joint conferences. He is, at least to my tastes, too passive and too willing to negotiate on issues of moral clarity.