(03-02-2024, 07:29 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(03-02-2024, 05:47 PM)mikesez Wrote: Both sides play games.
You need to ignore the games and consider the policies being proposed.
Both parties created this problem.  The Democrats are actually a little more honest about it because they say "let's be nice to the poor migrants" which is the outcome the big business interests that actually control things want.  The Republicans are more dishonest because they say, "let's send them back" when they know the real outcome will be that the migrants will stay but feel more marginalized and less willing to speak out about on the job abuse, also the outcome that the big business interests want.  
But you have to ignore all of what they say because it's all lies and only pay attention to what they write.  That is the ball.

You are watching the cups. We can't see the ball. That's how the game is played. That's politics. Governance is what happens when they lift the cups. Are you losing money or making money? Is it a fair game? In our case, it's not a fair game, and you're the mark. 

I don't care how democrats and Republicans play politics to get elected. I care how we are being governed. Democrats have lied to us for years about the border. Years. Sorry if I don't care that Republicans want to let them hang themselves in those lies. 

You clearly don't try to understand the conservative position reflected by many in these boards, either. They hate establishment republicans who absolutely lie about their intentions. We're trying to get them out.

The job of Congress is to write legislation and appropriations and investigate the executive branch or anything else they need to investigate as they write legislation and appropriations.
And they barely do it. At all. They spend most of their times at fundraising type events to keep their name and face in the local news.
It is deranged to imagine that there is any hidden job beyond that.  You're not the only one who thinks this.

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