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fadedrose

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8. Looked her column over..
Sun Nov 17, 2013, 05:52 PM
Nov 2013

And the Dems are lucky she's not a candidate for anything...here's an exerpt from her column today:

It’s too bad “compassionate conservatism” has become tarnished because compassion is what is needed in today’s GOP playbook: compassion for the hungry whose food stamps House Republicans excised from the farm bill; compassion for 11 million immigrants who are prisoners in illegal limbo; compassion for gays, lesbians and others seeking protection against workplace discrimination.

These are not such difficult choices in the scheme of things. How to guarantee that Iran can’t weaponize its nuclear capability? That’s tough. Not so tough: helping the poor feed their families; finding a path for citizenship along with other immigration reforms; extending equal protections to individuals whose sexual orientation should not be a firing offense.

The Senate also has passed a comprehensive immigration bill with the help of 14 Republicans that contains a relatively strenuous path to citizenship that includes paying back taxes and fines,

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