The french-fry caucus folks keep sounding as if what they’re willing to accept matters.
But even if the moderates do get a win, and McConnell miraculously pulls something out of his hat, there’s still the matter of getting the small-fingered one to sign it. Because “Yeah, I voted for a bill that would have helped you, but the president, who is of my party, and whose criminal acts I am sweeping under the rug vetoed it” is not really stirring rhetoric.
I would change “responsible” to responsive, a slight difference but it will shoe the impetus coming from the voters and not some supposed quality of the legislator.
So McTurtle is facing Scylla and Charybdis, how hard is a turtle shell?
Many might meet midterm massacre; Micturition Man mutters: ‘Meh.’
That’s why they are using August to pack the courts.
Hey, Don Quixote ,they got your “or else” right here…nice sentiments though…
. . . and we don’t end up giving away too much in exchange. I do not, for example, want to gut legal immigration as part of the bargain. The details do matter.
Throw us a bone here, people.
This is an Or-Else situation
We’ll hold our breath until we turn blue…
Not dealing from a position of strength while posturing wildly. Got it.
It’s not that this calls for courage when more than 80% of the public supports protecting Dreamers… and also knowing that Yertle in the Senate won’t move on it – and even if he does, Hair Furor will veto it using Stephen Miller’s back as a desk.
That’s fine and dandy, but Senate McConnell has said he will not floor a vote on DACA unless Trump pre-approves it.
Gotta start somewhere, I guess.
It takes courage for Republican reps since a large, vocal and reliable block of their voters have come to believe, foolishly but with great fervor, that everyone who crosses the border immediately joins MS-13 and starts shooting innocent white people. In a way, it takes even more courage precisely because their vote in the House is unlikely to produce any meaningful outcome. And courage is usually something they can muster only when attacking Democrats, women, poor people and minorities.
Then Denham (even) and Curbelo (D+6) are in trouble.
Meadows (R +14), Jordan (R +14), Scalise (R+24) and Blackburn (R+20) are in “gibraltar districts” and while they can feel their colleagues pain, their reptilian parts are likely wondering what’s the benefit of allowing DACA to come to the floor.
Plus McConnell has already said no to a vote, Trump will drag any freedom caucus members that either sign that petition or vote yes for DACA and Ryan is just waiting for '19.
That vote ait likely happening.
Tom Cotton will stop it in the Senate.
I’m not sure how much more of this trifecta of fecklessness, incompetence, and malice I can take. I suppose I can wait until Mueller or November, but not beyond that. Costa Rica or some other intact nation-state is whispering in my ear.
It’s funny to see Raul Labrador-- who just lost his Idaho gubernatorial primary and is on his way out of the House-- talking about who does and does not have “leverage.”
Maybe they should have lunch and sketch something out on napkin. That’s what worked so well for healthcare, after all. Why mess with success?
I’m really struggling with my devious wish that he fails miserably and my wish for a safer world. What is happening to me?
Given the chance, yes.
Moderate R’s? Uh… what the hell are those? Are they like jackalopes?
And Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a Freedom Caucus leader, said his group
wasn’t open to a “unique, different path” for DACA recipients to
citizenship.
Then he got back on his horse and rode off to the telegraph office.