DACA not included in the CR legislation
Congress Just Avoided A Government Shutdown, But There's A Big Fight Coming In 2018
The legislation, called a continuing resolution, keeps the government funded until Jan. 19, 2018. It passed the Senate Thursday night 66 to 32, soon after it passed the House by a vote of 231–188. President Trump is expected to sign it into law well before Friday’s midnight deadline for a shutdown.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week that he would allow a vote on a deal to protect the nearly 800,000 DREAMers, should members strike a bipartisan deal at the end of January.
Mark Meadows is quoted on his favorite movie, A Christmas Carol.
“I think everybody’s relieved,” Rep. Mark Meadows, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told reporters after the House vote. “And so you know, in the lines of one of my favorite movies, It’s a Wonderful Life, ‘Merry Christmas, everybody, God bless you.’”
(everyone)
Every single day that we don’t act, 122 more DACA recipients lose their status. We must keep our promise to these young people and pass the #DreamActNow. pic.twitter.com/GQBWYkxQTM
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 22, 2017
The good news is that CHIP has been funded for a few months as well as funds for disaster relief for hurricanes and wildfires and the 800 private contractors who are allowed to spy on us.
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Can you help me understand...
why DACA is important enough to shut down the government but the tax package wasn't?
Not to diminish the importance of DACA to the young people who it effects, but gee where was the democaps backbone as this horrid tax bill got rammed through? (and I really do not understand how it was passed under reconsiliation with just 51 senate votes)
The fights they choose...Russiagate, etc., seem so off target to me.
Thanks for the info...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I think it boils down to
they have their standards. They were in favor of the wealth transfer to the 1%, so no reason to fight and stop it. But with DACA, a fight means they care for the little people. Does that clear it up for you?
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
@Lookout they can pass that
they can pass that through reconciliation, but not a public option when they had 59 Dems in the Senate.
Awesomesauce
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
That is a great question
I have been asking the same darn thing when Pelosi said that this is where she was taking a stand on whether to work with the republicans or not. Yes DACA is very important, but it's another type of identity politics that is a safe issue for the democrat to play hardball.
Just as important to millions of others are CHIP funding and countless other issues that are of financial benefits to us, but those issues would affect their donor's profits and that is why the democrats are not fighting the republicans.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
@Lookout
Only a few Dems even tried to fight this tax bill, but, predictably, Bernie tried everything possible...
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/365191-sanders-rips-final-gop-tax-bil...
(Even if they do seemingly try to frame it as a re-election gambit below, at least the corporate media mentioned this, although the former framing seems to quote possibly be the reason for the latter, lol.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bernie-sanders-hits-trail-agai...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-bernie-sanders-calls-gop-tax-bill-a-mas...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/16/bernie-sanders-tax-bill-...
https://caucus99percent.com/content/bernie-sanders-predicts-republican-r...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/19/sanders-passage-gop-tax-bil...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJr9Lv27tKo
If the Dem Party was filled with progs like this replacing the CorpoDems currently infesting it, they'd actually be democratic... what a concept...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I read an article a few years ago about
a ten-year old boy who came here as a baby with his parents. They were all deported back to Mexico. The poor child was lost. He couldn’t speak the language, was having trouble getting accepted into a school, the family’s economic situation was devastating, and the other kids shunned him. It made me cry, something I almost never do. And made me an unequivocal supporter of the ‘Dream Act’. That little boy BELONGED here.
I wish could find that particular article but I can’t. But there are plenty more on the subject. Google is loaded with articles that tell about what happens to these poor kids. One of the worst is this one:
These kids are ours.
EDIT: en/ten
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Democrats Fold On DACA
Slate has a better analysis of the problem:
Schumer and Pelosi have promised and not delivered several times, because that's what they do:
I agree that DACA is not vital enough to risk a government shut down and give Trump a chance to blame the Democrats. The core problem, as usual, is that the Democrats do not have a spine on any issue. The good news is that an core Democratic demographic is seriously pissed off about it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/12/why_dem...
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
This was the point I was trying to make
but without seeming insensitive to the DACA problem. Democrats said that this was the Hill that they were going to stand on, but they folded once again.
Remember Hillary saying that the children from Honduras should be sent back to send their parents a message? The cold blooded statement was after the coup in Honduras and that was the reason parents were risking sending their kids here.
What the Trump administration is doing to immigrants who apply at the border is beyond disgusting and comprehension. If joe doesn't cover it in his EBs, I will. The inhumanity of this country knows no bounds.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.