Discussion: Republicans Leave Key Meeting Without DACA Deal As Discharge Petition Looms

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The 2018 campaign strategy for the Trump GOP is to run on pure unfiltered racism and nativism. Of course they don’t really want any reasonable deal that may discourage their base of deplorables from voting.

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ā€œWe’re at the beginning of the family meeting. Family meeting, ā€˜don’t anybody say anything other than family meetingā€™ā€¦ā€

That would be the Soprano family.

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Guys, enough with the Mussolini Look Alike Contest. You have work to do.
Mussolini

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So, if I remember correctly, this is the discharge petition that would allow a bunch of bills to reach the floor, including one that wants to throw out DACA kids and build the wall?

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Read what the Rude Pundit has to say about separating children from their parents!
A #MAGA Guide to Understanding Why Separating Children from Their Parents at the Border Is Bad

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Prop 187 worked out really well for the GOP in CA. They basically lost a generation of voters. Now the GOP has fewer registered voters than independents in CA. They really really can’t help themselves. They have to keep going back to that poisoned well hoping that this time, just maybe, the water won’t taste like shit.

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ā€œIt’s just like the last two minutes of a football game"

Because most of the participants have severe brain damage? Or do you mean the heavy corporate sponsorship?

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Fun fact: the actual language of the House Rule governing discharge petitions says ā€œa majority of the total members of the Houseā€¦ā€

Just now, there are six vacancies, so the total is 429. A majority of THAT, is 215.

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Exactly. But the fear among leadership is that the ā€œliberalā€ bill would pass, thus pissing off the base.