GOP dissidents on cusp of forcing immigration votes

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Centrist Republicans are within striking distance of forcing immigration votes in the House, setting the stage for a dramatic election-year clash.

More than 200 lawmakers — including 20 Republicans — have now signed a discharge petition to circumvent leadership and trigger a series of votes on the floor dealing with immigration.

As of Tuesday evening, petition proponents needed just 15 more signatures to reach the magic number of 218, but it will be this last group that will be hardest to get with GOP leaders trying to defeat the effort.

If all 193 Democrats sign the petition, as they are expected to, the centrists would need only five more Republican signatures for the petition to succeed.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/388914-gop-dissidents-on-cusp-of-forcing-immigration-votes

[beachbum bob]

1. If Koch bros issue an ultimatum that DACA needs immediate passage and signed by trump or they

Will with hold $400 million..what will you think will happen?

[apnu]

2. ... The Republicans will line up and vote for whatever the Koch's say.

Their geed demands it.

[beachbum bob]

3. Puts GOP at odds with each other, again, great for democrats...

If GOP kowtows to the Koch brothers....makes a great political commercial about masters and servants

[apnu]

4. It is. The GOP is predictable and unimaginative.

Combine that with all the telegraphing they do, including the Koch's agenda, there's a lot of opportunity for the Dems.

But will party leadership recognize and take action on those opportunities?

Case in point, in the rust belt that barely supported Trump in 2016, they did so because, they said, of economic reasons. Now in 2018, Trump's massive tax cut meant job losses after businesses used it to pay dividends then trim payroll, plus service losses due to the revenue starvation the tax cuts are. On top of them destroying ACA and health care in general. You'd think the campaign ads would write themselves, yeah?

No, Dem leadership has signaled they're making corruption the big talking point, not how the Republicans are crushing the low and middle classes.

Corruption sure plays well on TV tho, lots of things do, but that doesn't mean voters will think about that at the polls.