Washington Whispers on Obama’s Immigration Action
Washington woke up today and realized Labor Day means there are two months until the midterm elections that will determine which party controls the Senate. As a result, the White House may be backpedaling on its promises of moving on a mega-executive action over illegal immigration. But all this “news” is only whispered rumors in the halls of power. Will Barack Obama move soon? The liberal immigration advocates certainly hope so. But according to The Washington Post’s Plum Line, an executive move on immigration will hurt Democrat senatorial campaigns because granting amnesty to five million illegal immigrants will affect jobs, and jobs will affect other maligned groups under the Democrats’ wings, like women. Pitting one supposedly oppressed group against another is bad for the Left’s platform. Unfortunately, predicting when Obama will swoop in on immigration means getting into his head. Unlike a constitutional republic, where debate is played out on the floor of the legislature, we don’t know what Obama is deliberating. More…