Obama is going to plead for amnesty.
In all honesty, I think Boehner will just tell him no. If he had the votes he’d pass it by now.
One of the top Republican leaders in the House believes it is still possible to pass immigration legislation this year. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the House Republican Conference Chair, sounded more hopeful than other amnesty supporters in the House when speaking to her constituents in Washington state last week.
“I think immigration is still a possibility,” McMorris Rodgers said in Spokane, Washington. “There’s a recognition that we need to fix what is a broken immigration system."
McMorris Rodgers pushed for immigration reform in her response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and also said that the issue should be a top priority for Republicans in an interview last year with Univision, the Spanish-language TV station.
He has the votes, the problem is they’re all Democrats. If he shoves this particular crap sandwich down with 28 GOP votes as he did the debt-ceiling vote, he’s looking at a full-scale revolt right now, never mind waiting until the next session.
He can be un-speakered at any time.