Sen. Graham says using reconiliation on health care reform would endanger immigration reform.

[jefferson_dem]

:grr: I'm totally hating these bastards right now.

“I expressed, in no uncertain terms, my belief that immigration reform could come to a halt for the year if health care reconciliation goes forward. For more than a year, health care has sucked most of the energy out of the room. Using reconciliation to push health care through will make it much harder for Congress to come together on a topic as important as immigration.”

http://senatus.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/graham-issues-statement-on-white-house-immigration-meeting/

[WhiteTara]

1. like they were going to cooperate with that

Hey Charlie Brown, wanna play football with Lucy?

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Fine with me.

This is no time to be pushing phony corporate bullshit "immigration reform" on Americans with such high unemployment.

[jefferson_dem]

3. Of course, it's fine with you.

I've yet to see you support a single item on the President's legislative agenda. Why should this be any different?

[Hello_Kitty]

8. And I have yet to see you criticize President Obama.

I like the President but he isn't right 100% of the time. When you act as though he is, you become a propagandist. If I'm wrong about you, please link to something where you disagreed with the President.

Furthermore, last time I checked, neither Chuck Schumer nor Lindsey Graham are President Obama. They are Senators and it is they who are pushing the slaves to corporations uh I mean "immigration reform" in Congress.

[jefferson_dem]

9. Classic!

On "Democratic Underground", one poster asks another to prove they are sufficiently critical of the Democratic president.

That's a gem. Please keep 'em coming.

By the way, do your own research. It may just turn up something meaningful.

[Hello_Kitty]

11. Why don't you just answer this question: Is there anything on which you disagree with the President?

Anything?

[jefferson_dem]

14. Yes.

Now your turn.

Is there anything on which you agree with the President?

[Hello_Kitty]

17. Yes. eom

[jefferson_dem]

18. Awesome!

:fistbump:

[Hello_Kitty]

19. Great. So you can retract what you said in comment #3 now.

Thanks. :)

[jefferson_dem]

21. I thought you would accept my fistbump smiley with the spirit in which it was intended.

Guess not.

Post #3 reads: "I've yet to see you support a single item on the President's legislative agenda." That was true then. That's true now.

I retract nothing. ... except maybe the fist bump.

[The Northerner]

4. +1

[butterfly77]

16. They can't wait for it..

they have been trying for a while now to throw immigration into every conversation. Its Tom Tancredo time. Its Tom Tancredo time..

[Hello_Kitty]

20. Seriously. We're going into the midterms with mandates and immigration around our necks. eom

[butterfly77]

22. Don't forget..

Inhofe and climate change.

[jenmito]

5. HCR already passed, Lindsey. It's just the "sidecar" that they'd be passing with a simple

majority. And congress won't ever come together for at least the next couple years because Repubs. want Dems. to FAIL.

[Botany]

6. no it won't because we can pass that w/ 51 votes

[HughMoran]

7. Perfect - add childish vengefullness to 'party of no' and 'obstructionis' ads this fall

Dems may not be the best with talking points, but we are good at making the ads when the time comes :D

[DrToast]

12. Seriously, is this supposed to make him look good? What does HCR have to do with Immigration reform?

How would this change your opinion about something entirely different? That is, other than you're just being a dick.

[HughMoran]

15. Republicans are geniuses at "just being dicks"

It really is a party composed mostly of ass holes.

[4lbs]

10. COBRA and SCHIP passed using reconciliation and that didn't stop Lou Dobbs from going on his

anti-immigration tirades some years later.

[butterfly77]

13. Another threat I see..