Friday, February 16, 2018

Lost Dreams

The hopes for DACA are dashed.

After three consecutive plans to address the DACA program went down in flames Thursday afternoon, Republicans who signed onto the bipartisan compromise bill that came closest to passage tore into the Trump administration for lobbying against it.

“I don’t think the President helped very much,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a cosponsor of the bipartisan plan, told reporters following the vote. “There’s probably 75 votes here for border security plus a pathway to citizenship for the DACA recipients, but you need presidential leadership. Without it, we won’t get there.”

Ahead of the vote, President Trump threatened to veto the compromise bill if it ever reached his desk, and he tweeted just before the vote began calling it a “total catastrophe.” He also threatened to veto any short-term fallback plan to protect DACA recipients from deportation.

Of course Trump was going to be an asshole about it; we all knew that from the beginning.  And of course the GOP seeks cover by blaming him instead of doing what a vast majority of Americans, regardless of party, want done.

We’re begging you: for once try not to live up to our expectations.

2 barks and woofs on “Lost Dreams

  1. Pathetic. Come up with a veto proof plan, Senator. Show the executive branch that you have and are willing to use your power to do the right thing for our country.

    But we really know that you’re just wanting to have it both ways – appearing to support DACA recipients without really having to legislate in their behalf.

  2. Tell me, what expectations have you had for Trump? What he continues to do is exactly what I expected him to do. Nothing more, nothing less.

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