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Originally Posted by eva02
Ryan entrusting a committee to come up with a DA bill that will ensure the support of the majority of Republicans in congress means bare minimum protections for us and tougher interior enforcement, wall money, raise act provisions. All of these non starters for Dems and moderate republicans.
The hasert rule is going to fuck us over again. Even though we only need about 18 more republican house members for a clean DA bill.
Our best hope is a discharge petition succeeds and then puts pressure on the senate.
Other than that we only have December. I'm super optimistic but even I know a house GOP DACA bill is going to be awful and they are wasting their time
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Sure I can see that, but historically, discharge petitions rarely workout. Signatures aren't hidden so republican colleagues who sign are immensely pressured when they do and if it works out, the house speaker will look like an idiot. I think the republican reps who have signed it are in heavily Latino communities from what I've read.
Is there a time when the discharge petition is too late to file?
Politics is as much a show is it is actually making deals and making laws. I say, if there were no time restrictions on the discharge petition, why not do it mid-October when we can point to something like: "house republicans have nothing to show after 1 month" or "house republicans came up with a stupid plan"? If we jump the gun, i think republicans will say "well we are trying to work on it, but the democrats keep undercutting us, it's not our fault things aren't getting done.
That's my opinion anyway. It'll always be 20/20 afterwards but I feel like this would be the best path with the landscape now.