Misleading the Public Again
April 14th, 2006 | by Dr. Forbush |Can the Republican leadership find any new ways to mislead the American people?
Apparently they can. They have now begun blaming the Democrats for not supporting an amendment to the House immigration bill that would make illegal status in the US a felony. The amendment in question would have reduced the act to a misdemeanor. The Democrats said they were not in favor of any criminal penalty, so why would they support an amendment to reduce it?
The bill was not amended, and so the felony punishment remained in the bill. The Republicans passed the measure on a party line vote. So, the Democrats voted against the amendment making illegal status a misdemeanor and they voted against the overall bill making it a felony. They voted consistent with what they said. But the Republicans are claiming that the Democrats didn’t allow them to reduce the punishment in the bill.
How does this make any sense at all?
The Republicans control congress. They control the House of Representatives. If they didn’t want the bill to contain the felony clause in it, then they should not have introduced the bill with it in it. The Democrats can’t get their legislation even up to the floor to be voted on. The Republicans control the process, they can amend the bill themselves, without the help of the Democrats. They need to fix their own agenda and get a bill that at least 50% of the country agrees with. They need to come up with a fair and balanced law that does not break up families. They need to work together with the Democrats, instead of fighting them and blaming them.
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One Response to “Misleading the Public Again”
By 4Truth on Apr 14, 2006 | Reply
REPUBLICANS are a FUNGUS that feeds on 9/11 FEAR.