| Jelly Bean Lover |
09-22-2010 11:30 PM |
Re: Durbin to Re-Introduce DREAM Act on Senate Floor Today
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Originally Posted by DA User
(Post 176157)
We may need another Secure Border bill to secure the border more and thats what Republicans want.
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You cannot keep bowing down to the Republicans. If they keep passing secure border bills and the like, the next time immigration comes up the Republicans only move farther and farther to the right. At the end of that process, they will be demanding deportation of everybody, repeal 14th Amendment, strip people of citizenship and papers if they speak English with an accent, shut down DREAM Act portal, etc., etc.
Anybody that claims we should cave more to the right, should pay more attention to what the right is doing. Tea Partiers are sacrificing Republicans in the name of purity tests and claim that they will win elections by going farther to the right rather than going to the middle. The tactic of Republicans right now is no compromise, and I doubt it will change regardless of what happens in this election.
Instead of compromising, the Democrats should grow a pair, and start playing Republican games. Hold the defense bill hostage, strip the army of funding, refuse to fund the Department of Homeland Security, tell them any new border security bills will have to be paid for out of the DoD budget since they involve troops and would supposedly be "defending" America, and refuse to renew any of the Bush tax cuts unless the Republicans agree to make meaningful concessions.
This is what the Republicans have done and look where it's gotten them. The country has mysteriously forgotten all the numerous ways Republican policies hurt the country. People complain about the budget deficits, but it is the Bush tax cuts that makes that impossible. Obama looks incapable. Democrats are divided, and losing support from the base that should support them because they tried compromise for every bill they have passed. The Republicans were able to get a bunch of their Amendments added to the Health Care Bill--and it was a Republican health care bill that passed, modeled after Romneycare and McCain's plan in the election. The Dems had a supermajority and political capital far behind anything they had since LBJ, but they wasted it begging for a few Republican votes they never got. |
