The message from Republicans in Congress just gets louder
and louder. No compromise, no matter
what. If the Senate likes it, we hate it. The latest missive is about
immigration reform. On Wednesday House Republicans met in the basement of the
Capitol to work out amongst themselves a response to the Senate measure passed
last month re an overhaul of immigration laws that includes the road to
citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US and tougher
border controls.
The conclusion they came to was that they would take their
sweet time, that they wouldn’t approve anything that smelled remotely of
amnesty – for those who have been contributing to the US economy in no small
measure and been treated shockingly for it, mind. There were mutterings that
they might approve the tougher border controls, though, and possibly pass a few
bills before August.
Definitely they’re going to do it piecemeal, and immigration
reform isn’t high on their priority list. So they showed the middle finger
again.
Clearly they still believe they have all the power in the world,
and can do what they want with it, and never have to face any consequences.
Like being voted out of power by the people they think they don’t have to pay
any attention to. Women. Gays. Hispanics. African Americans. Reasonable
Americans. Smart Americans. Americans with a heart. Americans with a soul.
It’s tragic that America, the most progressive country on
earth for so long, is being held to ransom by a group of mean-spirited conservatives
who are capable only of very short term vision. Where do these men come from?
They seem almost like a kind of a throwback to the early days when it was dog
eat dog. Take what you want. If somebody gets in your way, kick them down, rape
them, shoot them, burn them.
Perhaps it’s a kind of mutant gene. Barely human. Maybe it's all a science fiction nightmare.
