(11-30-2018 07:14 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(11-30-2018 06:48 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(11-30-2018 04:39 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(11-30-2018 04:14 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(11-30-2018 02:56 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Why don’t the Republicans do it?

over the obstructionist
Dems?

The Dems can paint the Republicans as mean(tear gassing kids) and lacking compassion (they just want a better life for their family) and as racist for enforcing the law.

What is the upside for the Democratic Party to solve this problem? When they had both houses of Congress and the WH in 2009-10, why didn't they address it? No political plus, that's why.

So the Republicans not publicly supporting these types of immigration reform is the Dems fault? Right.

Your original comment is obtuse, to say the least. This is a bipartisan problem, to say the least.

It's bipartisan only in the sense it affects the entire country.

But the Dems are not trying to solve it, because all the angst works in their favor politically.

Why do you think the Republican have not solved this? How does it benefit them to not solve it?

It benefits them to solve the problem because it’s a problem. And people who are elected into office are done so to govern. Crazy concept, huh?

But sure, put all the blame on the Dems. Lol.

What a wonderfully ideal world you live in.

The political equivalent of “follow the money” is who does it benefit to solve the problem?

The Republicans of course. They would love to no longer be vilified as uncaring racists with pictures of crying children.

How does solving the problem help the Democrats? It doesn’t help them a t all.

You have good ideas Lad. Is there some reason the Democrats in Congress could not have the same ideas? Are you smarter than every single one of them?