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POLITICS AS THE ART OF COMPROMISE: In Historic Vote, Senate Passes Bipartisan Immigration Bill
Part of the title above comes from a headline in Time June 27, 2013
"The measure was approved" on Thursday, June 12, 2014 by a vote of "68 to 32, with 14 Republicans joining all 52 Democrats and two Democratic-leaning independents to back the bill."
What happened to that bill? Politics. That is why this thread is in the politics section and not the Immigration section. Let us discuss the politics of the situation if not the bill.
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I believe the Speaker of the US House has held it up hoping President Obama would do something like take the action he did the other day. This is Speaker Boner covering his flank and not looking out for the best interests of his party, or the US House, or the people/nation. The Tea Party has hijacked the GOP primary system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/us/obamas-immigration-action-reinvigorates-tea-party.html
GOP Lie Debunked Every President Since Eisenhower Used Executive Authority On Immigration
"It is noteworthy that every president since and including Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower has taken executive action on immigration without facing threats of lawsuits, government shutdowns, impeachment, or loss of executive authority; because they were white. No American dare ever say the current crop of Republicans, teabaggers, conservative pundits, and conservative media are not inherently racist, hypocritical, and living representations of vile inhumanity. Fortunately, history will portray them for exactly what they are; hypocritical and inhumane racists who hate immigrants just as much as they hate the African American man occupying the White House."