Obama: Now that this shutdown’s out of the way, it’s time for amnesty

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Allah:

When your opponent is weak, press your advantage.

“Once that’s done — you know, the day after — I’m going to be pushing (Congress) to say, call a vote on immigration reform,” Obama told the Los Angeles affiliate of Univision, the Spanish language television network.

Obama’s immigration hopes figure to continue hitting opposition in the Republican-run House, where members describe a proposed path to citizenship as amnesty for lawbreakers…

As he has during shutdown and debt ceiling impasses, Obama placed the blame on House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

“We had a very strong Democratic and Republican vote in the Senate,” Obama told Univision. “The only thing right now that’s holding it back is, again, Speaker Boehner not willing to call the bill on the floor of the House of Representatives.”

I hate to say it but this is the smart play for him politically, no? For two reasons. First, the last last last thing Obama wants after his big shutdown/debt ceiling win is to let the GOP start a party-unifying feeding frenzy over the ObamaCare tech disaster. That’s where we’re headed starting tomorrow, and that’s why O’s emphasizing that he won’t waste a single day before reintroducing a shiny object to change the subject. I doubt it’ll work but he’s got to try something, and immigration reform is one of the last big policy initiatives he stands a chance of passing before he’s a hopelessly lame duck. If nothing else, given that immigration reform polls well, talking it up for a week or two might help revive his job approval after the beating it’s taken over the last three weeks.

Second, what better way to keep RINOs and tea partiers at each other’s throats than by pushing amnesty front and center?

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