Last updated on April 17th, 2014 at 03:04 pm
“The majority of Americans are ahead of House Republicans on this crucial issue…”
This could be said about almost any issue, unless it’s how to waste money and work less.
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President Obama called out the obvious Wednesday in a statement on the bipartisan legislation the Senate introduced. It would help fix our broken immigration system, would grow the economy by $1.4 trillion and shrink the deficit by nearly $850 billion over the next two decades. Naturally, House Republicans are totally against anything that grows the economy and lowers the deficit so it’s getting moldy.
Obama pointed out that it does all of that while “providing a tough but fair pathway to earned citizenship to bring 11 million undocumented individuals out of the shadows, modernizing our legal immigration system, continuing to strengthen border security, and holding employers accountable. Simply put, it would boost our economy, strengthen our security, and live up to our most closely-held values as a society.”
Oh, no, Mr. President. We can’t have stronger security and a better economy, the voters might catch on and vote Democratic. The House fixed this impending threat to the itty bitty GOP tent by letting this bill collect dust for an entire year, along with all of the other pieces of legislation with which they wipe their precious feet.
The President isn’t mincing words anymore, “Unfortunately, Republicans in the House of Representatives have repeatedly failed to take action, seemingly preferring the status quo of a broken immigration system over meaningful reform. Instead of advancing commonsense reform and working to fix our immigration system, House Republicans have voted in favor of extreme measures like a punitive amendment to strip protections from ‘Dreamers’.”
And here’s where it got real, “The majority of Americans are ahead of House Republicans on this crucial issue and there is broad support for reform, including among Democrats and Republicans, labor and business, and faith and law enforcement leaders. We have a chance to strengthen our country while upholding our traditions as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants, and I urge House Republicans to listen to the will of the American people and bring immigration reform to the House floor for a vote.
The historically do-nothing, work-hardly-ever GOP-led House is infamous for killing anything remotely helpful to the nation while hardly showing up to work at all, and if they do, it’s to investigate Obama over a trumped up charge or pretend to repeal Obamacare… AGAIN. In other words, the Republican led House knows how to waste taxpayer money and government resources whilst doing nothing they are actually being paid to do.
The President is getting edgier in his second term, and is no longer playing bend over to accommodate the people so dead set on destroying him that they’re taking the country with them.
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