Damn my pragmatism.

Now we wait to see if McConnell holds up his end of the agreement...floor vote of DACA with endless amendments...and you can bet some amendments will be doozies. And the house can refuse to even consider it?

The GOP leaders just held it back for ransom, as they will do with something else everyone agrees on...and bludgeon the Democrats once again.

I guess we now will see in 3 weeks, if anything has changed.

The reality is that unless the Gop wants to help DACA and I see no sign of that...there is little we can do.

Chip without funding for the neighborhood clinics is not meaningful.

as the right wing propaganda machine will pit US citizens against "illegals". It already started with Mcturtle and the hideous ad they ran on tv.

You don't want to risk this becoming an us US citizens) vs them (DACA) thing. If this drags on too long the Dreamer's cause could suffer because the reps are shameless and racist.

If it's true that they released CHIP, they have less to bargain with next time. That's a win in my book, so long as they are willing to shut things down again in three weeks if there's no deal on DACA.

again in Feb. then the public will blame us.

LIED, that doesn't help the cons at all. AND we got 6 more years of CHIP funded. All this angst is stupid.

pit Daca against Chip next time.

Then a mega-shitstorm as DACA is on the edge (March 5) and craven Repugs try to besmirch a "clean" DACA bill with all sorts of chicanery to obliterate the remaining shreds of ACA, along with other giveaways to their buddies.

Final Line in the Sand for Dems, even after they have most likely caved more on "The Wall."

Just in time for state primaries for Congress and Senate for the November Midterms.

This is not as bad a deal as it might look to the dem base.

CHIP is no longer a hostage.

Rethugs got 17 days to do something they despise.

Dems got 17 days to get prepared. 17 days to make protest signs. Shoot we should floats and awesome effigies to burn with 17 days to plan.