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Is John Kelly the Next to Go From the Dysfunctional Trump White House?

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Belafon1/22/2018 4:23:08 pm PST

re: #291 KGxvi

During the gay marriage debate, I remember telling someone that change takes time and you need patience. Their response was that it’s easy to be patient when it’s not your civil rights at stake.

DACA is a policy that has a supermajority of support, EVEN REPUBLICAN VOTERS SUPPORT IT, and yet the best the Democrats could get on it was a promise that there’s going to be a vote… eventually, unless McConnell decides the Democrats aren’t acting right. I can sympathize with those who feel betrayed on this, and the Democratic Party isn’t entitled to her and those like her being a member or working for them if they aren’t willing to act on issues important to her and those like her.

Hopefully this deal goes through and a permanent solution for DACA is passed. But the Democrats in Congress have to decide what they stand for and communicate that to people, because “anti-Trump” isn’t going to be enough come November.

So, you want them to make Sophie’s choice: They should have stood firm on DACA until Republicans caved, even if that meant all of the parents of children needing CHIP turned away from Democrats. Remember, if Democrats had caved, CHIP would have been funded (it was in the House version already) and there would have been no action on DACA. This at least keeps DACA in the news. And by not agreeing to a long term resolution, but a two week one, the next vote is about DACA.