Democrats dreaming on shut down ploy

Red States:
The Democrats have been trying to use the DREAMer issue to demagogue the GOP and the White House into accepting a wide-ranging amnesty bill.

The House has countered by offering a clean Continuing Resolution with an authorization and appropriation for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) which has expired and is funded through the end of February. CNN polled the issue just a short while ago and those results gave a hint on how this shutdown is going to play out:

or, as Team McConnell has framed it:
What makes the numbers worse than they appear for Democrats is that CNN historically weights their polls in favor of Democrats. (h/t to my colleague Brad Slager.)
...
I do not think this is what the Democrats expected.  The Republicans can make the case that Democrats are putting illegal aliens above the kids of US citizens.  That cannot be a winning message for Democrats.   The Democrats problems are compounded by the fact that they do not oppose anything in the bill.  They are just trying to hold it hostage to their bad immigration policies.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

29 % of companies say they are unlikely to keep insurance after Obamacare

Bin Laden's concern about Zarqawi's remains