Dont blame Washington. Blame the GOP.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Dysfunctional Washington refuses to work out its differences to solve problems that matter to Americans.

So say pundits and policy activists, perhaps hoping that diffuse criticism, rather than finger-pointing, will yield a government willing to govern.

But the problem isn’t “Washington.” It isn’t “Congress,” either. The problem is elected officials from a single political party: the GOP.

Republicans in the White House and Congress are the ones standing in the way of helping “dreamers.” They are not merely obstructing gun reform but also rolling back existing gun-control measures.

You’d never know it from the usual “blame Washington” rhetoric, but there are lots of common-sense policy changes, on supposedly unsolvable issues, that large majorities of voters from both parties support.

These include protecting dreamers, the young undocumented immigrants brought here as children. In a recent Quinnipiac poll, 81 percent of Americans, including 68?percent of Republicans, said dreamers should be allowed to stay and eventually apply for citizenship.

Other polls have had similar results.

And yet, dreamers are scheduled to start losing their protected status in two weeks.

Who set this in motion? President Trump, a Republican.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-blame-washington-blame-the-gop/2018/02/19/f374bf28-15ba-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.ad72ab3e41f1&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[spooky3]

1. Wish I could rec 1000 times.

[Nitram]

2. I agree. I say this every cahnce I get. Same for blaming "Congress."

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Agree. What else is there to say? The ...

gop grades itself on how it prevents the 'right' or 'human' thing to do, when faced w/ immigration issues that seems to be a trigger point w/ their voters (all made up).

Immigration effectively is only a tiny portion of the entire American experience, and the gop choose an issue that really only affects a very minor portion of the US population. Imagine the amount of time (all artificially started by tRUMP) wasted on this relatively minor issue (but important to the DACC folks themselves).

God, it'll like building a house, and the gop gets stuck endlessly on what color tiles to use for the roofing, while we (DU, democrats, etc.) are still building the foundation, basement, framing, flooring, electrical, plumbing, etc., or in short, far more critical components.

They do this with all areas.
They proved that they can't govern.
They still have to trick us, in order to believe, the benefits of anything they do.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. FINALLY

I am so sick of MSM reporting on gridlock in Washington and Congress can't work. They did that all through the GOP obstruction of Obama. It's about time one of its members 'fessed up!

Hopefully, tv network news will follow WaPo's lead and finally get specific.