re: #449 Amory Blaine

Who are the heroes in our country if not them?

I guess I should have sarc-tagged that last paragraph.

I’m angry that the bill to cover their care ($7.4 billion) ran into a mess this week.

The Republicans wanted a motion to recommit, they wanted to put amendments on it about immigration to embarrass the Dems. So the Dems offered it up through a procedure that makes it unamendable, but needs a supermajority to pass.

243 Democrats voted for it (out of 247), and 12 Republicans (out of 188).

Republicans are screaming “it’s the dems’ fault it lost, we don’t like your procedures. If you really wanted to pass it you’d have let it go for a straight vote with our amendment attached.” Democrats respond “it’s the reps’ fault it lost, what kind of assholes would deny these people their medical bills because they wanted to turn it into an immigration debate?”

Sagehen screams “even if some of the money did go to the care of illegal immgrants, FUCK YOU ALL CONGRESS! Thousands of random volunteers joined the cops and firefighters on that pile in the early days, and I don’t give a damn if a few of them were illegals. If I flip my car on the freeway and it’s on fire, and some passing migrant worker gets 3rd degree burns because he stops to pull my kid out before it explodes, I sure hope my response would be a little more gracious than ‘you shouldn’t have been here in the first place.’”