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As it becomes clearer and clearer that Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) has fantastically underperformed (like France or Italy at the World Cup. Mostly Italy. But France too.), the non-profit-community-organization-industry quacks are dishing out their alternate strategies. Is something afoot? Or even awing?
Among them is the “lame duck strategy”, which would involve trying to pass the non-existent CIR bill after the midterm elections, during the month of November, and before December recess. It’s called lame duck because… it’s lame. They don’t do anything.
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http://www.dreamactivist.org/blog/20.../lamest-ducks/
Here is another article that confirms what she is saying.
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But several House and Senate Democrats agreed with their Republican counterparts that nothing substantive is likely to happen in a lame-duck session, despite rhetorical warnings from conservatives.
“In my experience, lame ducks are usually dead ducks,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) told POLITICO. The opposing party, he said, “just gets mad and angry, and not much happens.”
“Why would people who don’t want us to get anything done now — are they going to have an epiphany in November?” added Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.). “I don’t know why they would be any more cooperative after the elections [than] they [were] before. We still have to get 60 votes. It doesn’t change with the election.”
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), one of the Senate’s most senior members, said Republicans are “not going to put up with” an action-packed lame-duck session.
“They know it’s likely there will be less Democrats in the Senate if Republicans are lucky enough by the end of this year,” Hatch said. “So there will be a big push to try to make a big stink. As you can see, lame ducks don’t work. Republicans aren’t going to roll over and play dead if they want to play politics at the end of the year.”
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