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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
There are at least some Republicans who want to protect the Dreamers and at least some who want to screw them. I suspect many would like to signal to their base that they are in the latter camp while not actually doing anything to screw them.
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There are also some in the former camp that really don't care and just don't want to pay the political cost of saying they don't care. Which I think is the real obstacle.
The Hastert Rule and 45's flip-flopping are give them cover to keep pretending they care. They haven't been forced to vote on it and are pretty happy about it.
And now the Dream Act will go through committee, get amended out of recognition by Tom Cotton or whomever and McConnell will bring it to the floor in a form that the Dems can't support and be able to claim he met all his promises and they voted against it.
The Dems just don't have the stomach for this game.
