“That doesn’t make sense!” Jon Stewart said during his segment. ”We have an urgent issue in this country, immigration, that strikes at the very heart of who we are as a people, that we must solve, but we can’t, because the only way of keeping the president on enforcing our current disastrous immigration law is to talk about, but not deliver, a better one.”
Stewart mentioned that House Republicans don’t exactly have a stellar history of enforcing enacted law. In this Congress alone, they’ve voted 48 times to repeal Obamacare, blocked countless federal nominations, and voted to gut bills already passed into law (like Dodd-Frank).
Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow, on her show pointed out that House Republicans in the last few months have actually ignored anger from right-wing conservatives in order to pass the debt ceiling, the farm bill, and the spending bill. As she asked, “If Republicans don’t really care what these conservatives have to say on the debt ceiling and the farm bill and the spending bills, why can’t Republicans not care what these groups have to say on immigration?”
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