DACA Discharge Petition Do-Or-Die Day Is Here

[Soph0571]

It’s do-or-die time for the House Republicans who have rebelled against their leadership to demand protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

A group of GOP lawmakers, led by a trio of swing-district Republicans facing tough reelection battles, are just three signatures away from being able to force a vote on the House floor on a bill that would give the group dubbed “DREAMers” a path to citizenship by joining with Democratic lawmakers. They’ve guaranteed they have those signatures, and have held off on pushing through the so-called discharge petition to allow time to negotiate with Republican leaders and GOP hardliners over a compromise bill.

But their deadline has arrived: If group wants to force a vote by June 25, likely the last possible time for serious legislation this year, they must produce those final three signatures on Tuesday. In other words, it’s put up or shut up time.

[link:https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/daca-discharge-petition-do-or-die-day-is-here|

How do you reckon it will go????

[riversedge]

1. Then DO it!! your leadership--Ryan et al. has failed you.

[Hortensis]

2. Hope they fail. 146 days to midterms. When WE

control congress we can do it right. If we don't, we can't stop them from dishonorably breaking this pared-down deal, just as they did the original DACA deal they signed on to.

[cynatnite]

4. If Dems win the house...

and possibly the Senate, there's no guarantee tRump would even sign.

The only way is to get veto-proof majorities. Unlikely to happen, but hilarious, too. tRump would be the lamest duck to ever walk.

[Hortensis]

6. tRump will "deal" if he wants anything. I expect,

though, that he'd do better, on domestic matters anyway, with a Democratic-controlled congress.

A Republican minority would also, of course, have to deal to get anything they wanted, and Republican moderates, the ones trying to save their seats by belated decency on this issue, would become far more empowered against the hard-liners, and Trump, since just a few in the house could join us to create majorities and veto-proof majorities. A rebuilding of the working center we must have if democracy is not to fail.

[MichMan]

5. What original DACA deal are you referring to?

[awesomerwb1]

3. I read the "leadership" is offering deals err assurances

to some Reps who might otherwise sign on to the discharge petition. For one for example, they're giving him assurances that they will push for a worker program for agriculture which was his pet peeve.

So they're bribing them so as not to do anything on DACA for now basically.

[Salviati]

7. The Republicans will fold.

They always do. Just enough of them. The rest will have gotten permission to "dissent" in an attempt to save their seats. The only thing you can count on them to do is the wrong thing.