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While I appreciate the statesmanship of Senator Murphy I just can't contain my cynical viewpoint about that wretched party.
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dalton99a
(81,065 posts)spanone
(135,627 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Get real
they turned thier heads and thought nothing about Nazis in the street and one on a killing spree but are going to speak out to save DACA recipients
Phoenix61
(16,949 posts)More of an accurate assessment.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Thanks
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)We don't have to dispense with cynicism, as long as it doesn't keep us from acting.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Instead of Murphy telling the GOP that their moment has come, he should be advocating his own ideas, or at least a bipartisan committee to come up with a plan that can win majority support in the House, then a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. That's leadership.
If left to their own devices, Rethuglicans will come up with a twisted version of DACA that has onerous consequences for others. They play divide and conquer as often as possible, and they will look to pit one group of immigrants against another. I expect that, and I fully expect that some sort of increased enforcement or another bone will be thrown to the right wing, but if we let them write it up, Democratic members of Congress will be left with a hard choice of voting for a really nasty piece of law, or just deciding that the DACA folks aren't worth screwing over the rest of the immigrants.
Expecting Rain
(811 posts)...over to a proDACA position.
It is doable, and far more important to these people's futures that lobbing insults (how ever well-deserved).
Let's be mature. And let's elect DEMOCRATS!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...that the Republicans in the House will somehow support pro-DACA legislation?
Expecting Rain
(811 posts)So we can at least delay active deportations. We need to try to be persuasive (using a variety of means).
And we need to elect more Democrats.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...when they voted many times to throw millions out of access to healthcare?
Sorry. I wish I had your optimism I really do.
Expecting Rain
(811 posts)to stop the destruction of the ACA.
When we are in the minority in the legislature (a situation we need to reverse) we had better be good politicians.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Expecting Rain
(811 posts)On issues like DACA the House GOP membership is even more vulnerable to pressure as the entire body is up for re-election every 2 years.
We need to demonstrate that those who support deportation will pay a price.
PdxSean
(574 posts)One of the things that pisses me off to no end is when my fellow Democrats expect republicans to EVER do what's right, just, or compassionate, as though they have EVER done that as a party.
kcr
(15,300 posts)Cynicism is just an excuse for apathy. They'll be perfectly happy to ram through their agenda on the backs of such apathy and lack of action. There is nothing wrong with holding them up to a higher standard and framing the argument that way. You are wrong.