Oh noes, Republicans will finally get mean if Obama does something about immigration!
Serious Republican logic at work:
Boehner pretty explicit. "No chance" of immigration reform if the president acts unilaterally.
— @rickklein
With a Republican Congress, nothing was ever going to happen on immigration beyond "build 100 foot fence and moat and sharks and lasers and landmines," so not sure what Boehner is even talking about. He's had years to act on the issue and has refused. NOW, with even bigger Republican majorities, that's supposed to change?
If the president acts unilaterally, then by definition some measure of immigration reform will happen. It may not be comprehensive and perfect and everything everyone wishes for, but that won't happen with Republicans in charge anyway.
Boehner says the President "will burn himself" if he goes ahead with unilateral action on immigration reform
— @jamiedupree
Oh, what do Republicans think they'll throw at him that they haven't already? They set out to destroy him, systematically and overtly, from day one. President Barack Obama has sat there like an idiot (or saint, depending on your point of view) taking the abuse in hopes of fulfilling his lifelong dream of being "a uniter" and "the adult in the room," and America has punished his party accordingly. So what exactly do Republicans think they can "burn" Obama with? A lot of extra screaming on Fox News and Breitbart, to add to the already existing cacophony of screaming?
Or are they talking impeachment? Because if so, bring it on. Seriously. Bring it on. Let the Republican governing philosophy continue to be, a generation after the last Democratic president, nothing more than "impeachment."
1:15 PM PT: Reminder, even in Tuesday's heavy-GOP electorate, voters were pro-immigration reform by a 57-39 margin according to exit polls. So Obama will get "burned" by taking the uber-majority position, while Republicans will benefit from standing firm for the fringe?
