Reid repeats inaccurate Republican claims.

Ignoring GOP opposition, NBC's Reid repeated Republican claim of a "do-nothing" Dem Congress

On the June 29 edition of MSNBC Live, NBC News congressional correspondent Chip Reid asserted that after the failure of a June 28 cloture motion on the Senate immigration bill, "[t]he Democratic Congress is a big loser because, more and more, Republicans are accusing them of being a do-nothing Congress." However, in uncritically reporting Republicans' description of the Democratic majority as "do-nothing," Reid ignored the dominant role Senate Republicans played in killing the immigration bill. He also ignored what Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS) (who voted for the cloture motion) has described as the party's "strategy of being obstructionist."

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[babygd3]

There you said it. Regan went along with it. He could have vetoed the bill if he did not want to allow them to become legal citizens.

The numbers are debatable.

Now we have twice the problem.

[flyboymd82]

The Simspon/Muzzouli bill was a DEMOCRAT authored bill & Reagan simply went along with it. It allowed amnesty for approx 6 million illegals. Now we have over 30 million, quite a bit more than "twice as many" & I'm SURE its all the fault of Ronald Reagan granting amnesty to 6 million!! None of the others would have crossed the border if not for Reagan right? LMAO!

I'm not only talking ABOUT ignorance, I'm talking TOO ignorance! Are Democrats to blame for ANYTHING bad in this Country? LOL!

[babygd3]

It was Reagan that gave them amnesty and now we have twice as many as when he did it.

You shouldn't take about ignorance.

[flyboymd82]

Sounds like the libtards enjoy exploiting the ignorant & uneducated for slave waged labor. How typical. Then they act as if corporations are 'evil'........LOL!

[Truthiness231]

In hindsight, the GOP did come up with a way of slowing the illegal alien flow we had: with a shitty economy and no jobs, they have less reason to come here...

Then again they'll be pissed when they can't find anyone to mow their yards and when produce goes up $10 a pound because an American is picking their fruit...

[HELLFIRE8282]

republicans can kill the immigration bill but they can't pull the plug on the iraq war?