Their trouncing in the recent elections has the Republicans making the rumblings of possible compromise. Right now they seem resigned to give up more than they ever thought they would on the current immigration reform negotiations, realizing they can no longer win with just the angry white vote. Whatever the outcome I have no doubt that after they do compromise they will try to re-secure that base by blaming the Democrats for ramming through legislation without working with the right, the same thing they did about the Affordable Healthcare act.
To that I say- Sorry! You have no one to blame but yourselves. These issues and many others have existed for decades while the people waited for solutions and the right paid only lip service to the problems we face, pretending to care while delaying and deflecting the issues until time ran out or the opposition simply gave up. Time and again we heard this from the right;
“We know something needs to be done about healthcare costs/immigration/gun control/ budget deficits but lets take it slow, study the problem and do it right.” Translation; Slow it down to a crawl/ pretend to work for a solution/ send it into committees for study until it dies a slow death/ declare you tried but the other side was unwilling to compromise and wait for that socialist Carter/ Clinton/ Obama to be removed from office.
That worked well for you in the past, but finally the people got tired of waiting. They voted in candidates that would tackle tough issues, healthcare was passed, and stood up to court challenges despite your corporate sponsored Teabagger movement. Your promises to make Obama a one term President went unheeded, and now you are having to really work on immigration, congratulations, your polices have come home to roost.
Speaking of Republican Delays, our old friend Tom “the Hammer” Delay seems to be running out of time for his appeals of his Three year prison sentence. Let’s all hope he starts serving sooner rather than later. That nickname should serve him well where he’s going.
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