Rather than allowing Congress to do its job. the Republicans insist on telling other branches of government how to do theirs. It is quickly becoming clear that this is a dangerous moment in our country and in our political system. The Presidential primary field on the Republican side is resorting to demagoguery and nativism. fanning the flames of dangerous antiimmigrant anger and anger in general. What the President rightly called "vulgar and divisive rhetoric" in the Republican contest is a logical and foreseeable consequence of the anger and fear carefully and deliberately cultivated by decades of Republican campaign strategy. as Republicans went beyond principled advocacy for smaller government to the outright encouragement of people to think of government as the problem and their an enemy to be hated. This debate would not have even been an issue if. last Congress. the House had taken up the bipartisan Senate immigration bill. which they were asked time and time again to do but it never saw the light of day here. That was an opportunity for our country to come together in a bipartisan way. instead of further dividing us. I reserve the balance of my time.
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