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So about "big money" "buying elections"... pic.twitter.com/k4v6FovWQh #VA07

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) June 11, 2014

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[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting the only reason conservatives aren't working towards any actual solutions is because liberals are saying mean things to them?

That's a really bizarre takeaway from my comment, never mind a continued misstatement of the conservative position on the matter (a "conservative position," I might add, that doesn't appear to exist in any sort of consensus way). A key problem as to why Republicans cannot come to a conclusion on it is because there's a decided split on the matter, and much of the issue in this current term is because of concern that not getting it done now means not getting it done anytime soon with the incoming class of Republicans in the midterms.

Refusing to engage and allowing the problems to continue is likely why people on the left get frustrated.

Maybe people on the left should stop getting frustrated and start offering solutions that might bring some people from the other side on board? Any glib nonsense you throw unthinkingly at Republicans and conservatives I could easily say about the other side on this specific issue, and I know that the left is not some unified front on how to deal with the immigration issue, either.

Deporting 30 million people is not realistic. The cost, the logistics, the economic damage to American businesses, pushing it would effectively destroy the GOP.

Of course it's realistic. It's entirely realistic and doable, and is something that may harm the GOP with moderates who are already angry that the right wing party is actually representing the right wing, but beyond that, there are budgetary benefits, employment benefits, economic benefits to exploring it. I'm not for a blanket deportation because I think, at this stage of the game, it's a really unproductive and arguably unfair way to deal with it, but in a world where we turn away people for simply being from the wrong country or because we hit the quota of doing it the "right way," I'm not sure what message blanket "amnesty" does, either.