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Posted on Jun 23, 2006

From one of today’s Times editorials: “Given the topics that have preoccupied Congress lately, one wonders why the Republicans don’t simply propose a catchall bill aimed at illegal gay liberal Mexican flag burners and be done with it.”
Why not indeed?


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... Given the topics that have preoccupied Congress lately, one wonders why the Republicans don’t simply propose a catchall bill aimed at illegal gay liberal Mexican flag burners and be done with it. The immigration debate has been obscured for too long by a fog of distortion and fear, and the House Republicans are gambling that the public won’t see through it. The American people deserve better. They deserve action on a good immigration bill, and if this do-nothing Congress won’t give it to them, they should elect a Congress that will.

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By madeline steeg, June 23, 2006 at 11:05 pm Link to this comment
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I’m sorry, maybe I’m missing something - and I mean that. If someone can explain to me why the democratic congress is considered a “do nothing congress” I’d like to know. From what I heard Ted Kennedy say a few weeks ago on NPR, he can’t call a hearing, he can’t submit a subpoena - the Republican congress calls the shots. So, truly, can the Dems do anything? Have they been able to do anything these past five years? Against Bush’s destroying America - how could the Dems have stopped him?

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