http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/04/1349246/-These-17-States-Just-Sued-Obama-for-Wanting-to-Keep-Families-Together?detail=email
As you may have heard by now, Obama has been sued by 17 states who think keeping families together is bad for America:
Texas. Alabama. Georgia. Idaho. Indiana. Kansas. Louisiana. Maine. Mississippi. Montana. Nebraska. North Carolina. South Carolina. South Dakota. Utah. West Virginia. Wisconsin.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Brownsville, Tex., was the first major legal challenge to initiatives Mr. Obama announced Nov. 20 that will provide protection from deportation and work permits to up to five million immigrants in the country illegally.
-17 States Suing on Immigration
How will the future look back on this day? What will it say to those seventeen states for taking up arms against a democratic ideal that sought to serve the powerless and keep them bound to their families, honoring the work ethic of millions of the hardest-working people on the planet who found themselves on American soil? Will we look back at this day as the political equivalent of dogs and firehoses unleashed on honest people just trying to carve out a small slice of the American dream?
Or will history say, "It made all the sense in the world, given the many other faults in your Republican stars"? The only time in American history that an entire House of Congress has sued a sitting President of the United States happened last week because that President passed a law to help grandmothers get better care at the hospital and parents offer their children a healthier childhood and working families afford the costs of taking care of the people they work so hard for in the first place.
After Obama and Democrats found a way to pass universal health care, Republicans voted 50 times to repeal or cripple the new law. 50 times. Republicans voted 50 times to hurt you and me and the 291 million American citizens that make us who we are. They spent nearly $50 million dollars doing that, enough to build an elementary school or two and still have money left over to buy books and buy every kid at that school breakfast and lunch for who knows how long.
my vote goes for the latter if we vote in another Progressive in 2016 and all goes back to a kinder gentler America we will still look back on this time and remember the racism and bigotry that permeates the republican party and the right wing of the populous. it will be looked at as not the America they've been advertising all these years but just a broke in half ball of hate and compassionate's who gave up and stayed home, this will be America's legacy with a rewrite after republicans take office. recognize
