So the latest GOP pantomime is that President Obama, the Emperor has now “poisoned the well”.
The question that has come to my mind hundreds of times now, every time I’ve heard this hate filled drama is; Why? Or How? How exactly has any poisoning been done specifically. Leaving aside the clichéd spin job of a “poisoned well’ or that if there was one it would be overflowing with six years of poisonous GOP vitriol, I have not heard a single reason that Boehner could not move forward right now and pass the Senate immigration reform Bill.
Not one.
I have also yet to hear one reporter ask, and follow up with the questions needed to get the answer
The republicans threaten that now, this this time the President has done it. He's wrecked everything and can expect absolutely zero cooperation coming from their side of the aisle, which itself is a sick joke just looking back over the last six years, but setting even that aside, what is the specific crime here?
So the republicans want to sue the President. What has been wrecked? What is their legal standing to sue?
What has been said, a lot, is that the republican vow to obstruct the President on any moves beyond immigration reform issue based on this fabricated "well poisoning" excuse. This is important, this missing answer – imo
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Here are a few videos, that aren’t really necessary to the question nor is this an actual Diary. Just sort of a reminder is all and a question that I (almost) cannot believe has not been one of the first questions that the national news outfits would have confronted the GOP with and kept confronting them with until the republicans run through all their bullshit talking points and finally got down to it.
Why? How does this 'well poisoning' effect parliamentary procedure? Or what does it even mean beyond the rhetoric (propaganda) of it?
Rachel Maddow covered the Heritage Foundation last year when they were intensely organizing against all non-whites and with that agenda took aim at fouling up immigration reform.
They successfully derailed immigration reform then.
Here is Rachel Maddow's more recent reporting on the white supremacist group. With former senator Jim DeMint now at the helm, stopping immigration reform is still a top issue with them.
(short ads on these video clips - sorry)
Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
Heritage Foundation still has the racist white supremacist “study” that declares brown and black people as “inferior” on their website
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Speaker of the House John Boehner makes accusations of President Obama’s executive actions exercising prosecutorial discretion to defer deportations as that of an "Emperor":
Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
President Obama did the good thing but republicans continue whining and threatening while John McCain wonders if republicans have standing to sue the President:
Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
And of course the GOP once again with the government shutdown hostage taking:
Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
So the question remains. Why? Or How? How exactly does taking the executive actions the President has done “poison the well”? What excuse could the GOP come up with?
“Because we’re too pissed off?”
“He’s an Emperor and we must take him down?” or
"Because we can't trust him?" - LOL
What possible reason could there be that would now stop them from passing the Senate immigration Bill that has been ignored for a year and a half in the house?
The GOP is desperately trying to create the narrative that there has been sudden, devastating event that has come upon us.
Complete lunacy. And the MSM slides with it. And even if their had been...
Why? or How? or where exactly is this "end of times" "poisoning of the well?" that stops the republicans?
I'd like to know that secret.
There is no answer. None that wouldn't be a complete joke or that would differ from that of a petulant spoiled child – imo
Still though, I'd love to see a reporter stand there toe to toe with a Ted Cruz type or an older guard Mike Pence type and demand a legal and/or parliamentary explanation to this idiotic claim we're hearing.
It would expose the "family values" republicans for the no-nothing unqualified representatives fakers that they are. The more they whine and spread false stories, the more exposed they become.
But then the MSM wouldn't look so good either for not asking soon enough, and if they did ask, for the non - "answers" that the GOP would inevitably give that the MSM would then claim as "balanced" reporting
Revenge/fear (excellent video analysis) That is the answer - imo - what republicans seek, and why their campaign of "well poisoning" after all these years is still not enough for them. They have not yet learned that the revenge they seek is what is poisoning them and the country and all its people they pretend to love and care for.
That's my answer, but still believe it's important for experts pursue this
Rachel Maddow and her team put together a timeline going back to 2007 through today of the struggle to work through obstruction towards a solution to mend our broken immigration system:
link: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
This clip became available today just this morning (in the older embed code format). It's a good reminder of how important issues become sullied when used by republicans as vehicles for intransigence and other political games.
The President did the good thing and millions of people are happy about it :)