Again. Unless we get rid of the money in politics.

Sure they know how to say no and obstruct. That's the very nature of tight-sphincter conservatism. But they are complete fuckups when it comes to actually doing anything constructive benefiting the common good. Hell, they don't even believe in the common good. It's all 'what's in it for me' with these knuckledragging droolers.

I'm tired of all the winning!

There was a "bipartisan" bill that both Democrats and Republicans were willing to sign onto, and of course that one is being ignored. And even better, there is the DREAM Act, but that would need 60 in the Senate to move forward and it couldn't muster that last year.

I suspect the so called "moderate bill" is the one they wanted all along, but the GOP drafted the absurdly strict one to make dissenters appear as unreasonable obstructionists. Why else would they create two bills? I half expect them to begin referring to it as a "liberal" bill.

I also suspect both bills have a wall in them.

They have a big pile of Confederate flag-waving teabaggers in there who want none of these bills. So since the House GOP obsesses over the "Hastert Rule" (where they can only take up bills that are palatable to "the majority of the majority", i.e., can pass by only GOP votes), they delay and delay while their own civil war explodes, and we continue to be in stuck in this rut.

That's why some of their own "moderates" have been threatening a discharge petition for their own "compromise" bill that has some bipartisan support.

or address affirmatively, imo, problem of being the world's 'first' melting pot.

I grew up in New York City, love(d) the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus, and believed that was who we WERE.