Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on Sunday said she wasn’t thrilled about President Obama’s immigration executive action, but she was less thrilled with the GOP’s approach to the issue.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” host Bob Schieffer asked McCaskill if she was okay with Obama’s plan, or if an executive order would be “a poke in the eye.”
“You know, I’m not crazy about it,” she responded. “But let me say this: I’ll tell you what a poke in the eye is. A poke in the eye is for the United States Senate almost a year and a half ago passing by a two thirds majority a comprehensive immigration bill, with Republicans voting for it from places like Tennessee and South Carolina that just got reelected by double digits. And Speaker Boehner has refused to debate one of the most complicated and difficult problems facing our country.”
McCaskill said that if House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants to stop Obama from acting alone, he needs to bring up the Senate immigration bill in the House.
“All he has to do next week if he doesn’t want the president to act is take up the Senate bill, amend it, change it, whatever you want to do. Let’s get back to doing our work instead of just blaming the president for everything,” she said. “I am tired of the politics of, ‘Let’s just blame the president. Let’s just say everything is wrong with the president. Let’s just say everything is wrong with Washington.'”
When the Sunday shows can’t book a Republican sure to disagree with Obama, they contact a Democrat sure to do the same.
There are a lot of Democrats out there who are tickled pink at what Obama is [we hope!] about to do on immigration. Not that you’d know that, if you only watched TV “news” instead of reading TPM and other worthwhile sources.
She sure didn’t disagree with him very hard. Institutionally, she’s pretty much bound to express some disagreement with executive action on this, but the blast of sanity and, in particular, using her mild expression of disagreement with something she can’t stop to pivot to a full on push back against the MSM compulsion to normalize the crazy and dysfunctionality, I’m okay with it.
Wonder what the Repub’s will have to say about their only hero, Ronnie Raygun and W’s old man, about the following?
What gets me is that, if the GOP had actually not been pandering so hard to the Right on Immigration Reform over the last three decades and loving the ol’ Racist Vote for the last forty, we might actually be able to do something sane with regards to Immigration rather than absolve corporations and businesses of their part in using undocumented workers, punishing the workers for coming here, and not providing an alternative.
I’m so fed up with this country’s pandering to the idiots out there who don’t have a scrap of common sense and who reject any and all facts which contradict their hatreds and ill conceived notions. At the rate they are going, the US is going to be a wasteland worse off than a Third World Country…then again, some people like the Koch’s want that because then they have a cheap source of labor to exploit…but they haven’t figured that without the US market…they’re seriously effed.
According to the Republicans, Ronnie did what they say he did not what he actually did.