The N.Y. Times’ Modest Proposal to the GOP
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?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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