On Thursday of this week, behind
closed doors, “master
legislator” Nancy Pelosi upbraided a group of Democrats who had the
temerity to vote alongside Republicans on gun control legislation requiring ICE
(Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to be notified if an illegal immigrant
failed a background check to obtain a firearm.
Pelosi blew a gasket when 26
Democrats defied her when a motion
to recommit allowed the legislation to pass.
According to a published
report in The Washington Post Pelosi asked, “What is this? We are either
a team or we’re not and we have to make that decision.”
The report goes on to
say, “When one lawmaker talked about the peril of persistently voting with
party leaders on these motions, Pelosi responded that the party stood ready to
help team players: “We have a massive MASH operation and, frankly, it should be
there for those who have the courage to take the vote.”
Publicly and privately,
Pelosi has urged members to treat the Republican motions as a procedural gambit
that should be routinely ignored. “Vote no — just vote no,” she told reporters
Thursday, “because the fact is, a vote yes is to give leverage to the other
side.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY), who was also in the closed-door meeting, warned those who had rejected the plea by Pelosi to join in obstructionist groupthink were “putting themselves on a list.”
She said, “When progressive
activists ask her for a list of names to target, she’s going to give it to
them.”
This list, not unlike the
1930’s Gestapo Black
Book or Joe
McCarthy’s blacklist, guarantees a trip to the Party woodshed where they
will be forced to crawl on their bellies if they stray from the Party line.
Of the 26 Democrats who voted for that Republican "motion to recommit" (ICE amendment) gun bill, 22 represent districts Trump won in 2016; 18 of the 26 were first elected in November 2018. pic.twitter.com/w5bV9zo0bp— Greg Giroux (@greggiroux) February 27, 2019
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