Why I left the Democratic Party

It is well known he would run if nominated.

I am trying to warn people that "our side" is colluding with our enemy.

As was pointed out in the video I posted this morning, politicians of either party jump to the donors' tune. If we can't break this cycle it doesn't matter much which party is elected. As we see with DACA, Democrats are not fighting very hard at all, because big money is putting a brake on them.

I'm right now working off the Young Turks video. I won't do others' searches to prove my point, which gets proven daily by the lack of results.

ACA-shutdown talks still stalled after Kelly meets with Dems

House Democrats left a meeting with top White House officials Wednesday seemingly no closer to reaching a deal on immigration or government funding before a critical Friday deadline.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus said their hour-long meeting with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was “positive” — a dramatic change in tone from their contentious encounters with him in the past — but mostly a rehashing of talking points that doesn’t bring the two sides closer to an agreement.

“I didn’t get a sense that the administration has a clear bottom line that get us to where we need to be, certainly by [Jan.] 19,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) told reporters after the meeting. “The problem here is we had a cordial conversation. But we don’t need a cordial conversation, we need a substantive conversation.”

A deal to protect undocumented immigrants brought here as children isn't necessarily needed to keep the government open past Friday. House Republicans have passed the past two short-term spending bills on their own, and vulnerable Democrats in the Senate — where at least nine Democratic votes are needed — have not indicated they would be willing to shut the government down over the issue.

Still, House Republicans have had more difficulty rounding up votes on their side this time, with both conservatives and defense hawks loath to vote for another spending stopgap, the fourth such measure since September.

Democrats in the meeting advocated for a bipartisan House bill from Reps. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) that would offer a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and increase border security. At least 50 lawmakers, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, have signed on in support of the bill.

“I’m more positive than ever before,” said Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.). “The way I believe forward is for Democrats to say very clearly, ‘We want to give you your border security, please give us our Dreamers.’”

“I’m more positive than ever before,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez said following the meeting.

But Kelly hadn’t heard of the proposal, though he promised to look into it and even suggested the president would sign the bill “if that’s the best we can do,” according to Democrats in the meeting.

The group also discussed the Senate’s bipartisan immigration proposal, to be formally rolled out later Wednesday. But the plan has already drawn fire from the liberal CHC members who met privately with Kelly, and it faces deep resistance from the White House.

The legislation would create a new, 12-year pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants who had entered the United States by June 15, 2012. Dreamers, however, would get up to two years of credit toward those 12 years if they had already obtained a DACA permit.

To try and satisfy Trump’s border security demands, the group is proposing roughly $1.6 billion in planning and constructing a barrier along the southern border, along with just over $1.1 billion for technology-oriented and other security measures.

The proposal would also make changes to family-based migration and the diversity visa lottery, proposals a majority of House Democrats have said they’re firmly against.

The initial group of six senators is working to entice more Republicans and Democrats to sign on. But Cornyn, the second-ranking Senate Republican and member of the No. 2 group, tweeted Wednesday morning that the deal would not be voted on and urged lawmakers to “go back to the drawing board.”

White House legislative director Marc Short, who accompanied Kelly to the CHC meeting Wednesday, told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that it was not “insubstantial” that the group at least addressed Trump’s core demands: a DACA fix, border security, the visa lottery and family-based immigration laws.

But on specifics, “some of the border security measures came with significant limitations and I think if you look at the chain migration proposal, we’re looking to fix chain migration across the board,” Short added. “That’s what the president talked about.”

In the CHC meeting, Democrats said they implored Kelly and his aides to stop using the term “chain migration,” a term minority lawmakers say is an offensive way to describe family reunification policies. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chairwoman Judy Chu (D-Calif.) also attended the meeting.
No one brought up Trump’s controversial comments last week describing certain nations as “shithole countries,” in order to ensure the meeting remained civil, CHC members said.

Kelly was seen meeting with a group of pro-immigration Republicans, including Hurd and Reps. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), after his huddle with Democrats.

House Republicans unveiled a short-term bill Tuesday night that would fund the government through Feb. 16 coupled with policy sweeteners — including long-term funding for a children’s health program and a delay of certain Obamacare taxes — meant to attract Democratic votes.

Conservatives say Republican leaders do not have enough votes to pass the bill in the House.

But CHC members left the meeting saying they remain committed to voting against a government spending bill if there isn’t a DACA agreement by Friday.

“We’re very clear that the clock is ticking,” said CHC Chairwoman Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.).

If the Dems ok a border wall -

Probably why Kelly said Trump wasn't going to build it, but Trump went and tweeted he was..

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told Democratic lawmakers Wednesday that some of the hard-line immigration policies President Trump advocated during the campaign were “uninformed,” that the United States will never construct a wall along its entire southern border and that Mexico will never pay for it, according to people familiar with the meeting.