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By LISA MASCARO, MICHAEL A. MEMOLI
Rising Republican hostility toward President Obama's impending immigration plan is as intense as has ever existed between the White House and the GOP.
House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio says the president's executive action expected to be announced Thursday will "poison the well" for cooperation with the upcoming Republican-controlled Congress. Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky compared it to "waving a red flag in front of a bull." Tea party conservatives have renewed talk of censuring or impeaching the president.
But the strong reaction by Republican leaders has less to do with opposition to the nuts and bolts of the president's immigration policy and more to do with fear and anger that the issue will derail the agenda of the new Republican majority before the next Congress even convenes.
Republican leaders who had hoped to focus on corporate tax reform, fast-track trade pacts, repealing the president's healthcare law and loosening environmental restrictions on coal are instead being dragged into an immigration skirmish that they've tried studiously to avoid for most of the last year.
That's largely because the question of how to handle the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. bitterly divides Republicans, and the party has been unable to agree on an alternative to the president's plan.
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)William769
(55,124 posts)It's the Republican agenda.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Fucking using the EO for political cover.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)you think that this move wasn't planned out on, or about, November 5, 2014 ... with 2016 in mind?