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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    According to 57 this was all negotiated via Obama’s super top secret backchanneling.
    please provide quote or is that you putting words in my mouth
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Oh, so the fact that the WH had to clarify that they didn't support a clean bill and that they originally dropped his line suggesting to Feinstein that he did from the transcript. Come on. You're just clearly and obviously mistaken here. Even the Washington Examiner for chrissake wrote it up this way.

    Feinstein even said it directly. Clean DACA bill now, followed by comprehensive reform.

    So in an unscripted exchange, he gives a muddled answer which confuses his caucus and requires walking back, but we're supposed to be impressed because he didn't drool on the table.

    Low bar.
    The overreach here is a bit painful. Let's keep it on one channel.

    Could a "clean bill" incorporate both DACA and border security or not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    please provide quote or is that you putting words in my mouth
    It's definitely me putting words in your mouth, because most of your posts aren't your words.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    It's definitely me putting words in your mouth, because most of your posts aren't your words.
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    "What about a clean DACA bill now, with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure?"

    That doesn't seem particularly ambiguous.

    If his answer were so clear, why does it require such clarification from Republicans?

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    Ann Coulter
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    IF TRUMP WAS REAGAN: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
    Or leave it up. Your call, I'm good either way."

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    Well, he could have meant X...

    Yes. Blunt simplicity, et al.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    "What about a clean DACA bill now, with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure?"

    That doesn't seem particularly ambiguous.
    I don't know, it seems ambiguous to me when we read the (later) portion of the transcript detailing the 'go into' portion being one hour later.

    If his answer were so clear, why does it require such clarification from Republicans?
    They want to firmly stake some sort of claim in a piece of legislation that otherwise has Democrat written all over it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
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    IF TRUMP WAS REAGAN: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
    Or leave it up. Your call, I'm good either way."
    Not a happy Trump supporter right now. Going back on a core promise is basically unforgivable. Happy with the economy and foreign policy but immigration was a pillar of his campaign.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    I don't know, it's seems ambiguous to me when we read the (later) portion of the transcript detailing the 'go into' portion being one hour later.



    They want to firmly stake some sort of claim in a piece of legislation that otherwise has Democrat written all over it?
    So why wasn't their nominal leader clearly staking out that territory with his simple blunticity or whatever?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Not a happy Trump supporter right now. Going back on a core promise is basically unforgivable. Happy with the economy and foreign policy but immigration was a pillar of his campaign.
    Ehh, I have always seen DACA and immigration reform as two different things. One is about being humane to kids and not punishing them for the crimes of their parents. The other is about making it harder to commit those crimes in the future, and actually enforcing those laws.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    So why wasn't their nominal leader clearly staking out that territory with his simple blunticity or whatever?
    "I think a clean DACA bill, to me, is a DACA bill, but we take care of the 800,000 people . . . but I think, to me, a clean bill is a bill of DACA, we take care of them, and we also take care of security."

    Again, pretty simple to me.

    A clean bill takes care of DACA and takes care of security.

    You are choosing to run with a definition of 'clean bill' that can only be about DACA, which is about as disingenuous as the body of your critique here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
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    IF TRUMP WAS REAGAN: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
    Or leave it up. Your call, I'm good either way."
    Ann Coulter is an insufferable beeotch, but this is a really good one on her part.

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    So what did Feinstein mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Not a happy Trump supporter right now. Going back on a core promise is basically unforgivable. Happy with the economy and foreign policy but immigration was a pillar of his campaign.
    Not a Trump or Hilldog supporter but one of the things I actually approved of from the Trump camp was his promise to make US drug companies compete with Canada and possibly others. This was I believe the first promise he backed out on. Not fun when they do that, huh?:

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    Not a happy Trump supporter right now. Going back on a core promise is basically unforgivable. Happy with the economy and foreign policy but immigration was a pillar of his campaign.
    Well, let's see what they do with legislation. I'd like to see the concept tightened up a bit.

    If Trump can use DACA as a pawn to push through comprehensive reform (addressing things like the H1B and chain migration, among others) then it might be worth it in the end.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    "I think a clean DACA bill, to me, is a DACA bill, but we take care of the 800,000 people . . . but I think, to me, a clean bill is a bill of DACA, we take care of them, and we also take care of security."

    Again, pretty simple to me.

    A clean bill takes care of DACA and takes care of security.

    You are choosing to run with a definition of 'clean bill' that can only be about DACA, which is about as disingenuous as the body of your critique here.
    And yes, I take from that statement that he supports a daca fix plus border security. Tortured as the language is, it's ultimately comprehensible.

    My point is that the sum of his statements was ambiguous enough that they required extensive cleaning up after the fact, which wouldn't have been necessary had he clearly answered DF's inquiry. This is neither disingenuous nor controversial...it's backed up by media response to the meeting across the spectrum.

    I actually appreciate your pushback against facile criticisms and lazy media narratives about Trump, but when you just blatantly stan for him in support of a similarly facile counternarrative...I dunno. You are diligent and tenacious, but you don't have a lot to work with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Well, let's see what they do with legislation. I'd like to see the concept tightened up a bit.

    If Trump can use DACA as a pawn to push through comprehensive reform (addressing things like the H1B and chain migration, among others) then it might be worth it in the end.
    I think--Democrats being Democrats--that there is a significant chance to do something that can be a win for Trump and a worthwhile effort for the center-right, even if it disappoints the rabid base.

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    THE PRESIDENT: I think what we’re all saying is we’ll do DACA and we can certainly start comprehensive immigration reform the following afternoon. Okay? We’ll take an hour off and then we’ll start.

    SENATOR FEINSTEIN: Okay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Trump's version of a clean DACA bill includes border security provisions.

    Pretty simple to me.

    And, I'm not sure what definition of "clean bill" you are operating from, but Trump's idea of DACA-Wall legislation shouldn't naturally be precluded.

    We're supposed to be impressed by the unscripted exchange, FYI, which has also been made pretty clear.
    I don't see how you can refer to a DACA bill as clean if it involves anything else. That seems to be the opposite of the working definition.

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