Looks like the Cruz Caucus in the House of Representatives didn't want "Transvaginal Bob" McDonnell to be the most humiliated Republican in the world this week. Thanks to them, John Boehner and his new "leadership team," Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, are pretty embarrassed themselves.
Sure, Boehner and the boys may get their act together tomorrow and end up passing something on immigration and the border. But as the pundits have noted, the damage is already done.
So the Republicans are reduced to spluttering that President Obama should fix the problem without them, via executive order — the very thing they sued him for yesterday. This is total silliness. Because all Boehner has to do is bring the Senate-passed immigration bill* to the House floor, and it would pass with bipartisan support.
The Republicans, Nancy Pelosi told reporters today, "really don't believe in governance. The American people deserve better than this."
(*UPDATE: The Plum Line's Greg Sargent agrees with us: "If Republicans had passed immigration reform...it would have wiped away the need for Obama's deferred-deportation program and we wouldn't even be talking about expanding it, meaning no need for Republicans to fear more Obummer Lawlessness. Reform would have spent more on border security and helped unclog the courts, speeding the removal of arriving migrants, which Republicans support. If it had passed...we would not be talking about [Obama] acting alone to shift more resources from interior enforcement to the border, either.")
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