Democrats have been essentially fighting since the day Donald Trump was elected. Usually in their typical cray-cray mode. But they’re going to hold the line now
Itching for a fight, Dems vow to hold the line
The January battle to keep the government open is the fight Democrats have been itching for.
On three occasions in recent months, Democrats punted on some of their top priorities as the GOP passed short-term funding bills — a strategy that outraged liberals eager for confrontation on issues like immigration and health care.
But with yet another spending deadline approaching on Jan. 19, Democrats say the time has come to hold the line.
In a Tuesday letter to her troops, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laid out the party’s top priorities heading into the fight. The Democrats will “insist†on parity between defense and nondefense spending hikes, Pelosi wrote, while pressing “firmly†to protect the young immigrants affected by President Trump’s move to dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In other words, they’re going to be soft on defense and attempt to protect illegal aliens over U.S. citizens.
Pelosi also promised a tough fight over new funding for veterans, pensions, the opioid crisis, health research, disaster aid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Would this be the CHIP that most Democrats in the House voted against? And isn’t even up for a vote in the Senate because Democrats are against reauthorization?
At the end of the day, though, the only thing that they really care about is DACA
On Wednesday, immigrant rights advocates — joined by celebrities including Alyssa Milano and America Ferrera — will rally at the Los Angeles office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to deliver an unsubtle message to the Democrats: deliver for the “Dreamers,†or pay a heavy price.
“DREAM Act or primaries,†Ady Barkan, a spokesman from the activist group CPD Action, said Tuesday. “We need Democrats to deliver on their promise to pass a DREAM Act now or we will put our full weight behind primary challengers who are ready to protect our communities.â€
Veterans, opioids, CHIP, you name it, they’ll all come far behind DACA, because Democrats care more about illegal aliens than American citizens. And don’t think they are sticking just to Dreamers
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), one of Capitol Hill’s most vocal immigrant rights advocates, is sounding a similar alarm.
“With new people becoming deportable every day, House and Senate leaders in both parties should not underestimate the urgency and the passion behind getting the DREAM Act passed right away,†Gutiérrez told The Hill Tuesday. “Our base wants us to fight for what is right — to take a stand against the bigotry and callousness coming from the White House.
They are going to push for protection for most illegal aliens along with the Dreamers.
Due to the flip of the Alabama Senate seat, we have only 51 votes in the Senate for good, common sense, and we can’t afford to lose more than one. GOP needs to pass the extension for the remainder of the fiscal year, in a clean bill, without DACA.
Let the Democrats file a clean DACA bill, which might pass in the Senate, but would, I hope, be defeated in the House.
Was it Chuck Schumer who said?:
Anyway, the GOP is in charge. They control the White House, the Supreme Court, the House and the Senate. They don’t need the Dems. The Republicans can do whatever they want to the American people. For example they just cut taxes of the wealthy and corporations without any cooperation from the Dems.
The GOP cares more about protecting wealthy defense contractors than American citizens. But that’s not really news.
Schumer Then Vs. Schumer Now
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfi7oh8oZIk
Speaking as a middle class, LEGAL, American citizen I am also benefiting from those evil tax cuts. My exemptions double and my tax rate drops by 3%. The ONLY ones who did not get a tax cut is the very poor, those making less than $10K a year who don’t pay taxes anyway. Why do the dems hate the middle class so much? Not ONE voted to help the middle class. I remember just a few years ago the dems, and Obama, crowing about how great an extra $40 a week is to the middle class. But now that same amount, or more, is something evil. What changed? Oh yeah, Trump is president and anything from this administration needs to be fought against no matter what. And the brainwashed minions march right along in lockstep. Right Jeffy?
Frilly Nightie,
Why didn’t the GOP do even more for the working classes and leave the wealthy to fend for themselves? tRump and the GOPers are cutting my taxes some $14,000 next year – good for me but bad for the country. Just more trickle up economics as practiced by the GOP. Why do you suppose well to do Dems vote for people who will raise their taxes but Repubs only voter for tax cutters. Greed? Selfishness?
Some of the wealthiest (suspiciously including the tRump family and several Senators and Representatives) pay hundreds of thousands less! And it will add to the deficit with no benefit to the overall economy. It’s a lose-lose for the working classes.
Will you support the cuts to Social Security and Medicare that the GOP is proposing?
Let’s see… give the tRump family a $1,000,000 tax cut and cut SS and Medicare to a retired teacher. It’s the GOP way.
Ultracrepidarianism all the way, little guy.
You might want to look that up too since you seem to have difficulty with words of four syllables or more.
Jeffrey wrote:
Since it’s so very, very bad for the country, you can just click on this link, and send that $14,000 to the Treasury Department, voluntarily. None of us will stop you. me, I’d like to see you put your money where your
mouthkeyboard is. You’ve talked the talk; now it’s time to walk the walk!However, since you abhor the idea of your tax dollars going where they should, to kill Islamists in the Middle East and enforce immigration laws here at home, you could take that $14,000 and make that much in additional charitable contributions, to provide food, clothing and shelter for poor, unfortunate Americans who have found themselves homeless due to
their uncontrolled drug addictioncircumstances beyond their control. I’d guess that there are lots of local organizations which provide all sorts of charitable services along lines with which you’d approve. Were you to do that instead of just sending that $14,000 to the Treasury, I’d consider that as having put your money where your keyboard is.Dana,
I will donate when you send me proof that you’ve sent $14,000 to the gov’t. Fair enough?
Shouldn’t we all be in this together? For some reason you Con Men want us libs to support the gov’t while you take advantage of what America affords you.
Stop driving on our roads, breathing the clean air we made possible, drinking our clean water, using our Medicare and collecting our Social Security, living comfortably in the secure nation we provide for the conservative takers (defense, police, fire, courts).
We prefer you just say thank you and move on. You’re welcome, deadbeat.
Jeffrey won’t back up his big words with action:
Ahhh, but I haven’t been the one complaining:
Or that the tax cut is “a lose-lose for the working classes.”
I do not need to give the government — or charity — more money to not be a hypocrite; you do. Practice what you preach, Jeffrey, or be (further) exposed as the hypocrite you are.¹ We will be far more impressed with your arguments when you lead by example as well as with your words.
I suppose that it is because the left want to take money away from other people, as opposed to just being generous themselves.
As bleeding heart a liberal as Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times noted that conservatives give more to charity than liberals, and The Fiscal Times did as well:
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¹ – Not that anyone here wasn’t already fully aware of this.
Jeffrey was apoplectic:
Don’t know about the family as a whole, but the President has donated his entire salary, $400,000, to various organizations.
Big deal. His family is making millions off his “presidency”. His new tax law will save him and his family millions. We have our own Papa Doc.
As someone else suggested earlier, you can always write a check for $14,000 to the government if it bothers you that much. Somehow though, I doubt you will do that. I also see that you didn’t touch the $40 a week that was such a good thing for the middle class 5 years ago. Did you spout your same BS then or is it just because Trump/conservatives that have your panties in a bunch now?
TEACH: Without your typical shuck and jive, is it your preference that we just deport the “Dreamers”, who are according to your slur, just “illegals”?
Slur? No, by describing illegal immigrants as illegal immigrants, our esteemed host has been telling the truth.
I cannot speak for our host, but I’ll answer your question as far as I am concerned. Yes, it is my preference that we round up all of the illegal immigrants, whether brought here as minors or otherwise, and deport them.
More, I would like to see all of the property which they have accumulated, since it was all accumulated illegally, seized and used to pay down the national debt. Not only should we deport them, but we should leave nothing here that is their property, to reduce the temptation for them to sneak back into the United States.
Why is it a slur to call an illegal an illegal? They are illegals. It matters not how they got here. However they will not be forced to leave. We will make exceptions for them. Then for the next bunch and then the next bunch and in a 100 years of exceptions the left will finally attain their dream. Their ancestors will be speaking Spanish.
Somehow in doing research I find an awful lot of those defense companies in BLUE STATES. Strange that the GOP would want to subsidize those EVIL RICH BLUE STATES and ensure that people in those RICH BLUE states have awesomely great paying jobs. I should think they want to tax them more because by your accusation they keep these Liberals in Blue states rolling in the dough with great jobs.
So as I take it your angry that the right is protecting jobs in Blue states. Bizarre. Now I think I understand that your afraid that your blue state buddies might actually benefit from the rights desire to see ALL Americans prosper and not just illegals and the poor.
Sorry, J, taxes were cut across the board, not just “the wealthyâ€. But you knew that.
Sorry, J, but the wealthy and corporations received the bulk of the cuts. But you knew that.
The working stiffs will still have to pay sales taxes, local and state taxes and payroll taxes, although they might pay $120 less in federal income taxes.
Of course their health insurance costs will jump much more than that thanks to the new law.
But the GOP takes care of its own.
Dean Baker:
Wow. $4000 per person in savings EVERY year. Now that would help the working classes more than the GOPs puny tax cuts. Where will the savings come from? Reduced redistribution to drug companies, doctors, insurers, hospital execs, clinics, device manufacturers etc. Just like in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Japan… etc
Can you imagine the economic stimulus from an average increase of $16,000 for a family of four in the US? And imagine families and workers not having to worry about health insurance.