THE FACTS: Five Senate Democrats voted against sending the DREAM Act to the Senate floor for full consideration. The bill would have created a path to citizenship for many young illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children. Last week, Obama announced plans to stop deporting illegal immigrants who would have qualified for the DREAM Act. The policy change does not include a path to citizenship.
I have to agree it's only the politics that have changed. The Dream act when first proposed was a Republican Idea. McCain was co-sponsor ,and it has not even been revised. Now he votes against his own legislation. This is just another instance of why I say the republican has lost its way.
John McCain (R-AZ) co-sponsored the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Yet, when Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) announced on Wednesday that he would be introducing a defense authorization bill next week that includes the DREAM Act, McCain blasted him: The Arizona Republican, who is ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, said Democrats were using the defense measure as a tool to push liberal agenda items in the runup to the midterm elections.
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So I intend to block it, unless they agree to remove these onerous provisions,” he said. [...] “It’s a pure political act for Harry Reid, who is worried about his own re-election and that of the Democrats in the Senate,” McCain said.Yes it is purely political and it's the republicans who are being obstructionists this time round.
It has become more important to ensure this administration achieves no victories (even when it is pushing laegislation forward that are republican ideas or policies) We have seen it time and time again over the last few years , the hell with the economy or anything else.
or as Mitch McConnell said.
The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
Not Jobs? not tax reform ? not anything?
Washington is soooooo Broken.