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Democrats and Republicans have been playing football on the immigration issue. Yes, Democrats could have fixed it when they had control of both the House and Senate but they chose not to.
Demonstrably false.
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No, he didn’t kill it to appease the teabaggers. It was never alive because the teabaggers own him.
Perhaps you didn’t notice that the Dem-led Senate did pass immigration reform. When it got to the Rep-led House it died. Don’t make excuses for the Latino-bashing, racist homophobic sex-crazed scum in the Republican Scum Party.
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The Hispanic population will remember this in November as will the women the conservatives male justices screwed today and last week…We will all vote! For the other …not republican candidates!
Bonher knows the Senate bill would pass TODAY but the namby pants cretins would not allow it to come to the floor and boneher chickened out!
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And you know they will come out and vote? Democratic voters are the laziest of voters.
Yup, just ask President Romney.
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You mean he did it to appease his constituents.
If you thought that the Republicans, especially House Republicans, were going to pass ANY immigration legislation beyond, “let’s get rid of all the Mexicans” then I have bridge I want to sell you. And you are going to buy that bridge because you are not too smart.
Hit’em with the chair Harry!! then do it again.
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Go play on the freeway.
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The Democrats only controlled the House and Senate for 77 legislative days in the first Obama session. Franken wasn’t seated until July, but then Kennedy died in August, recesses, holidays and Scott Brown sworn in February 4, 2010. In session with 60 votes for 77 days only, not two years.
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Again you’re at the top of the posting list so you really ought to try to display a grasp of the facts as known to the reality-based world. You can only have your opinion, not your own set of facts.
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Could you not use “cretin” to describe a politician whose opinion you disagree with? Boner and his cohort are cowards without morals or conscience but they are not developmentally disabled.
The GOP just finalized their national political aspirations. It was not certain that passing IR would help them stay relevant but not to pass it has doomed them forever. Good riddance.
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Amen Harry… I expect to see that in ads for Dems from now to at least 2016
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Sen. Byrd was on medical leave part of that time too. There never was a time when Dems had 60 who were able to vote. it was a super-majority on paper only.
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It gets worse if you dig even deeper into the facts.
In 2009 there were 60 Senators who caucused with the Democrats for all of 47 days, the number of days between when Al Franken was sworn in after the lengthy recount fight with Norm Coleman and the day when Ted Kennedy died of cancer.
Even then, the Senate was only in session for 21 days between July 7th, 2009 when Al Franken was sworn in and August 25th the day Kennedy died. Furthermore Kennedy was out of the Senate the entire time because he was dying of brain cancer and was never present in the Senate, and had not cast a vote in the Senate a full 4 months before Franken was even sworn in.
And even if somehow Kennedy was wheeled in while he was dying, you could only get to 60 votes if you count on Joe Lieberman (who was by that time an independent) for that 60th vote, and he actively campaigned for the GOP ticket in the election that seated the 111th Congress.
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Boom!
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I’d be stressed too if I had stuff like that in my head.
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