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Immigration reform has become the first of President Barack Obama's major priorities dropped from the agenda of an election-year Congress facing voter disillusionment. Sounding the death knell was Obama himself.
The president noted that lawmakers may lack the "appetite" to take on immigration while many of them are up for re-election and while another big legislative issue - climate change - is already on their plate.
By Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered little hope that the issue was still alive on Capitol Hill.
"If there is going to be any movement in this regard, it will require presidential leadership, as well as an appetite, is that the word? ... as well as a willingness to move forward in the Congress," she said.
House Republican leader John Boehner was more blunt. "There is not a chance that immigration is going to move through the Congress," he said Tuesday.
I hate to tell them
inaction is just as bad as bad action
This is why States have got to take care of certain issues themselves, because there is WAYY too much corruption on the federal level to get anything done, especially with this administration and the one prior to it.
the immigration issue is too much for them?
Originally posted by boondock-saint
It is no secret why they are doing this.
It is a mid-term election year and the Dems
dont wanna loose any more seats.
However I hate to tell them
inaction is just as bad as bad action
and their seats are gone anyway.
[edit on 29-4-2010 by boondock-saint]
Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by boondock-saint
I hate to tell them
inaction is just as bad as bad action
"Laying low" is not the right response when you've already been caught.
They've already marked themselves for elimination with their self-serving, party-subservient actions, instead of standing up for their true constituents.
Playing Obama's game got him what he's wanted, but it is way too late to try to be inconspicuous for the spineless legislators of any party who will not pay attention to the voters with a stake in this country, instead of the ones who were bought-in, or to the MSM.
jw
[edit on 29-4-2010 by jdub297]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose campaign is struggling in heavily Hispanic Nevada, unveiled an outline - not legislation - on Thursday for an immigration bill at a packed news conference. Asked when it might advance, he declined to set an "arbitrary deadline."
If immigration goes nowhere this year, Democrats can blame Republican resistance, though in reality many Democrats didn't want to deal with an immigration bill this year either.
The Democrats' draft proposal, obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, called for, among other things, meeting border security benchmarks before anyone in the country illegally can become a legal permanent U.S. resident.
Originally posted by WTFover
This is very strange. In the past, the "hot button" topics were front and center, during an election year. Of course, each time illegal immigration was the topic, nothing was accomplished. Then, as soon as the elections are over, the issue is allowed to go by the wayside. The Republicans used border security and illegal immigration, then got amnesia.
But now, it is being dropped just a few months before the election? Strange times, indeed.
[edit on 29-4-2010 by WTFover]