https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/1...ion-715420

Quote:House Republican leaders plan to hold a vote on a liberal bill to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency — forcing Democrats to weigh in on a controversial issue that has divided the party just months before the midterms.

“We can have a debate,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters Thursday, adding that the vote would occur before the August recess.

GOP leaders are also considering holding a vote on a "Medicare for All" proposal supported by progressives. That vote could take place in several weeks, said GOP sources.

The proposals, which have become a rallying cry on the left, aren't supported by party leaders or moderates, who warn it threatens to alienate independent voters in critical districts they need to win back the House.

Quote:GOP members loved the idea: putting Democrats on record backing a measure that could turn off swing voters — or voting no and rebuking their own colleagues. It would also be an easy unifier for House Republicans, who are still licking their wounds from their own divisive immigration battle last month.

Republican leadership aides say a floor vote is likely later this month.

Quote:But Pocan and the bill‘s other authors, Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), say they won’t be part of a GOP “political stunt.” Pocan said he expects other Democrats to follow suit in voting no but said they'd relish the opportunity to debate immigration on the House floor.

“If Paul [Ryan] really wants to give us time, we would love to have time on the floor," Pocan said in an interview. “We’ll be glad to capture floor time to talk about family separation, to talk about ICE, to talk about DACA, all the stuff that they haven’t given us floor time on.”

Meanwhile, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are also fuming over the liberal move to eliminate the agency, arguing the effort distracts from the ongoing family separation crisis and President Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown while handing Republicans a cudgel to wield against Democrats.

On top of that, several members of the caucus are frustrated that they weren’t consulted ahead of time on the bill. Pocan and Espaillat, a CHC member, met with the caucus on Thursday to try to ease some of the tensions.

The outreach seems to have done little good. The CHC did not take an official position on the bill and it’s unclear if the group — a key constituency in the party — will publicly weigh in at all.

Quote:The push to dismantle ICE has swerved into the Democratic mainstream quickly in recent weeks. What was once mostly a fringe argument on the far-left was thrust to the forefront last month following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning primary win over Rep. Joe Crowley, the No. 4 House Democrat.

Ocasio-Cortez made abolishing ICE a cornerstone of her progressive platform and after her win, several mainstream Democrats quickly voiced their support for tearing down or overhauling the agency.

But the battle cry hasn’t sat well with all in the party. One lawmaker who attended Thursday’s CHC meeting described the effort as “nothing but noise,” arguing all it does is help Republicans by taking the focus off of the migrant crisis.

Quote:Other lawmakers say they worry it will easily allow the GOP to paint Democrats as backing “open borders” heading into the final months of midterm campaigning, a messaging that could imperil Democratic efforts to win several swing seats and take back control of the House.

Low iq

Looks like the Republicans are playing chess and democrats are playing checkers.

Please, please, please call for a vote on the bill as written, then just sit on it for a month or two before running the ads.

But the idiot Democrats now say they'll vote against their own bill.

(07-13-2018 08:00 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  But the idiot Democrats now say they'll vote against their own bill.

Could not be a more clear example of them pandering to what they think is their base

It's not often the GOP outmaneuvers dems on the immigration issue, but on this one McConnell has owned them.

That's what happens when you go all crazy and suggest the abolition of an important federal agency.

(07-13-2018 08:00 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  But the idiot Democrats now say they'll vote against their own bill.

They are upset that the GOP is going to make a political point off of their political point.

Shocking. Making the sorry azz Dems vote on the very bill they introduced and they plan to vote against it. You Dems have some really brilliant minds in Congress. What a joke.

(07-13-2018 08:00 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  But the idiot Democrats now say they'll vote against their own bill.

That's hilarious.

saw this from Charlie Kirk on Twitter -

Democrats spokespeople include:

- 28 year old socialist
- low IQ con artist Maxine
- a Marxist who honeymooned in the USSR
- a criminal who lost the most winnable election ever
- a fake Indian

(07-13-2018 09:18 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  saw this from Charlie Kirk on Twitter -

Democrats spokespeople include:

- 28 year old socialist
- low IQ con artist Maxine
- a Marxist who honeymooned in the USSR
- a criminal who lost the most winnable election ever
- a fake Indian

A whoor
A sleazy attorney
Crooked FBI agent

How is it a stunt if they are letting you vote on a bill you created?

(07-13-2018 07:57 AM)shere khan Wrote:  





Low iq

That is Hilarious.