I think we are close to the point where we can say that the fever has broken in the Senate. They’ve passed an immigration reform bill, relented on important executive nominations, and appear to be grasping for some kind of compromise that can save them from doing a second round of debt-ceiling hostage taking. But most of it is not meaningful because the fever has come nowhere close to breaking in the House.
As long as John Boehner still needs permission from Louis Gohmert and Phil Gingrey to have a bowel movement, our country is stuck.
I think we are close to the point where we can say that the fever has broken in the Senate. They’ve passed an immigration reform bill, ..
Just because it’s better than the status quo doesn’t mean it’s worth gushing over. It really shows just how screwed up our country is.
Your comments and others in this thread are ridiculous. I did not in any way praise the Senate. I said the fever may have broken, meaning the insanity. The GOP didn’t become reasonable. The available compromises with the Senate GOP didn’t become attractive.
And I am going to have little patience with debt ceiling nihilists this fall. I don’t care what side of the aisle you come from.
I can’t see how it will pass. In the long term, this may lead to a better bill in a democratic congress, but in the meantime, a lot of perfectly nice, hardworking people are going to be deported.
It passes because the business community wants it to and they pull the strings. A ton of more legal workers will create more competition for jobs and help drive down wages, plus the skilled workers they pull in.
Civil rights did the same thing, a lack of legal ability to discriminate means more competition, it was key in breaking unions and helping to drive down wages. Which was another good reason to support it.
White nativists are upset that their wages will go down, many of them will lose their jobs when being forced to compete without racism to help, and that the racist in it’s conception New Deal benefits are being undone… but that’s progress. This will help people strip out the stupid protections the white middle class has abused for a while.
The interests of big business, the rich, and social progressives are aligned here, even if they aren’t good economically for some people. But that’s the cost of social progress, someone has to pay.
That’s completely backward. The civil rights movement did not cause anyone to “lose their job” due to competition. It just so happened that the civil rights movement coincided with the movement of women into the workforce, which happened in earnest in the 1970’s.
Legalizing immigrants won’t depress wages – keeping them illegal already does. When a person can be easily exploited, they will work for less. When they have full rights, they are harder to exploit.
Oh, I dunno. Boehner still seems capable of taking a shit on the Dems whenever he wants to.
Let’s be clear. The Senate passed a border militarization bill with a few promises of a later path to citizenship. The House wants to strip out those promises. Any conference will be arguing over the figleaf that is going cover the war in Amexica.
Harry Reid sacrifice any potential for union growth through fair NLRB rulings in order to get through two executive appointments.
Richard Burr wants a little of that Grand Bargain liquor before he will think about the fiscal issues. I don’t think the fever has broken at all. Especially after Corker told McConnell that the idea that the GOP won on the appointments deal was bullshit.
The Congress is as dysfunctional as ever and the Democrats are as co-dependent on the Republican addiction as ever.
Trayvon Martin’s parents and their attorney are on Rev Al’s Politics Nation right now. Not sure if I can watch it without being mad, sad or pissed
Why are you gushing over the continued push for a grand bargain?
I must need to change my glasses…..I don’t see any gushing over anything…
seems to be more “So the Senate moved a little…that’s nice”
Wow, Democrats, things are really get better for us.
Closing schools and racing to the top.
Such a great guy, that Rahm Emanuel.
It’s the new Democratic party. We are the party of the cultural and economic elite in major cities, those cities and those elites are where they are because of economic inequality. We have worked with them to advance the cause of social liberalism at the cost of populism.
The old populist party was racist and sexist, the populism is as dead as the racism and sexism. We are not going back to that.
You need to accept reality and get on board with support. Speaking out against our new path just threatens to put rape victims, LGBT, and minorities in the loving embrace of the Santorum’s of this world. Sure the cost is neoliberal economics, but that’s the way it is.
Is that snark or are you serious? I’m not sure.
Just a quick glance of this person’s history here would indicate that this person is apparently serious. Make of that what you will.
My money is on federal law enforcement plant.
Is Rham in the senate now?
Does tne Senate care about supporting schools or shutting them down through high-stakes testing?
The policy of school privatization extends from the White House through Arne Duncan (whose claim to fame was starting it in Chicago and making Chicago a model for it) to Rahm and other mayors to city school system heads.
This is a manifestation of a national issue, just like the bankruptcy of Birmingham and Detroit are manifestations of national issues.
And in Chicago’s schools and in Birmingham, racial discrimination and white flight are two of the threads tied up in other national failures. In Birmingham, it was securities frauds by investment banks selling risky but misrated securities to municipalities.
They screwed up!! http://linkapp.me/zwT6f