Using a procedural method that their House Speaker does NOT want?
Moderate Republicans , who want Congress to act on paasing legislation to codify the program which has been extended repeatily by Presidential action…..
Democrats will wait until the Republicans get enough votes on board before they join the effort to bring the issue up for a vote….
Along with the moderate GOPer’s wishes for a vote would be the choice of a vote for a more conservative based immigration bill…
At least 17 House Republicans are ready to put some force behind their calls for a “queen of the hill” rule to set up a series of immigration votes, signing a discharge petition that could launch the winner-take-all legislative process against GOP leaders’ wishes.
The group of moderate Republicans, led by Florida’s Carlos Curbelo and Jeff Denham of California, are frustrated that the House has not voted on legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation in the eight months since President Donald Trump announced he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shelters roughly 700,000 of the so-called Dreamers.
Trump had provided Congress with a March 5 deadline to act, but that became moot after two federal judges in New York and California blocked the administration from ending the program and the Supreme Court denied an administration request to overturn those rulings. ….
If a Conservative businessman supports DACA or immigration because he wants to lower wages on the lowest paid workers to increase his profit, does this make him a moderate?
In the eyes of some?
Sure…
But then this is the age of Trumpism, where ANYTHING can be twisted to fit Republican aspirations, eh?
“Moderate” Republican is a meaningless term to James.
He can’t even define it.
As best I can determine, when using the term it merely means that the Republican(s) he is referring to has done or said something not normally associated with the Republican Party as a whole ,even if ,in general, they are very conservative.
He has even referred to Trump at various times as a moderate” and is now referring to those opposing Trump on this issue as “ moderates.”
In fairness, much of the media uses the same standard as James.
I’m NOT gonna debate the moderate Republican thing with you anymore Jack….
There ARE such people….
We have gone back and forth about this for YEARS…..
IMO no one debates” anything with you.
You are incapable of any logical discussion.It rapidly degenerates into hyperbolic nonsense, out and out lies, and a desperate attempt by you to change the subject when unable to intelligently discuss an issue.
And yes, it has been going on for years.
In reply to your statement above ?I reiterate everything I said.Now are there a few noted Republicans the term “moderate”might actually apply to?Yes.Here I’ll Name some for you James(as you have shown an inability over the years t do so):
Governor Charlie Baker Of Massachusetts
Governor Larry Hogan Of Maryland
Senator Susan Collins of Maine(although she is actually a 80s type conservative)
Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California
Several Congresspeople from New York
Noted columnists David Brooks, David Frum ,Ross Douthat(that ones close) and Kathleen Parker
There are some others that escape my mind at the moment.
Are any of them of any significance in the national Republican Party?No.Indeed some of them openly disparage the national party .
Because someone occasionally strays from the general conservative line of the national party does such by that action make themselves a “moderate?”
Of course not and that’s what you haven’t understood…for years.
The House Republican Blockade on Immigration Finally Ruptures
Fed up after years of inaction, a group of GOP lawmakers is close to forcing votes on bills to protect immigrants at risk of deportation….
For the better part of five years, a small but vocal group of congressional Republicans has been pushing the party’s leadership in the House to act on immigration—either to address the issue comprehensively or, more recently, to protect some 700,000 undocumented immigrants who find themselves in legal limbo.
Time and again, from two different Republican speakers across two presidential administrations, they’ve heard the same reply: soon.
They’re finally tired of waiting….
More…
(These guys aren’t moderates?)