Republicans, fearing midterm disaster, seek course correction

A growing number of Republicans say a course correction is needed to prevent their party from losing the House, Senate or both given strong political headwinds that one veteran lawmaker likened to a “hurricane.”

GOP calls to work more with Democrats next year are becoming more common as Republicans look for ways to win over swing voters.

n the Senate, immigration is high on the priority list for Republicans.

Trump in September rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows certain young people who entered the country illegally to work and go to school in the United States. People covered by DACA will begin to lose their status in March, setting up an early deadline for Congress to take action.

“I think we’ll start with the DACA fix,” Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) said Wednesday.

“I would like to see us get back to some regular functioning where we do things on a bipartisan basis,” he added.

Talks on a legislative fix are already underway, with discussions centered on including certain border security provisions in the mix.

Polling shows that 70 percent of Americans favor stronger border security and 70 percent don’t want so-called Dreamers, the young immigrants at issue, to get booted out.

“Seventy percent of Americans really are sympathetic to these kids and 70 percent of Americans want better border security,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted in an interview earlier this year.

McConnell on Wednesday played up possible action next year on immigration and infrastructure and downplayed the likelihood of taking

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Look at these assholes.

Sure, Jan.

We'll see if you actually want a DACA fix, assholes.

These assholes are not willing to give anything more than the Bridge Act in exchange for all of their shit demands to be met.

And people here want to vote republican STRAIGHT up once they get theirs

John Cornyn wants no deal so forget about him. Just yesterday he had Goodlatte and Labrador in his office.

It's going to be up to the senate Dems and Schumer to hold them in line.

Our main focus should be :
Contact your Congress members' local offices in your cities and towns. Contact them every week twice a week. Let them feel the pressure.
Keep pushing for the Dream Act. They can find a middle ground on border security, but legalization of childhood arrivals is the starting point. Not our problem that Republicans are trash. Don't vote for trash. Which brings me to point three:
Which Democrats can we count on? We need 42 minimum to vote NO on more CRs. We were lied to by both parties as they each screwed the country and Dreamers giving Republitrash and president Trump time and $$ to pass threir tax bill. It would never have come to pass in Sept or October if Democrats had any fucking spine. Your yes votes were votes against American citizens and immigrants alike.

Course correction? They said the same after the 2012 elections and all they do is double down on the rhetoric

They can’t coursw correct. They’ve passed an unpopular tax bill, tried twice to kill people (Obamacare repeal), supported a pedophile rapist. If they lost Alabama they are going to lose hard!!! There is nothing they can do in 10 months to course correct.

lol, no.
they're not facing a disaster, they'll do fine in midterms and probably get rid of some of the neocons as well.
dems are falling apart at the seams, and you guys think they'll find a way to take control of the senate and house??
literally how.

nah its always like that. always a cycle no matter what.

whoever is in the WH, their parties tend to lose seats during the midterms/2nd year of presidency.

dems will take the house, senate maybe.