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BREAKING: Senate rejects bipartisan proposal to provide 1.8 million Dreamers (Original Post) sunonmars Feb 2018 OP
Good. F the wall. underpants Feb 2018 #1
Calling Susan Collins... honestly Susan - the frog and the scorpion.. asiliveandbreathe Feb 2018 #2
It was the plan all along. drray23 Feb 2018 #3
They aren't representing the constituents. BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #4
There is no way the Republicons would agree... PoiBoy Feb 2018 #5

drray23

(7,633 posts)
3. It was the plan all along.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 05:08 PM
Feb 2018

McConnell knew that he would be able to get away with it. As usual, we got conned into accepting empty promises instead of pressing for it when we could have during the first shutdown. I posted about it at that time and was told that for sure we would insist on it next time and that I did not grasp the fine points of the strategy...

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
4. They aren't representing the constituents.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 05:13 PM
Feb 2018

Everyone knows that the overwhelming majority of Americans want the Dreamers to stay here legally. This is typical GOP and McConnell BS!

PoiBoy

(1,542 posts)
5. There is no way the Republicons would agree...
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 05:28 PM
Feb 2018

...to provide a chance at citizenship to 1.8 million Dreamers who would most likely vote for the Democratic Party...







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