[BlatherNaut]

I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if it did, for that reason that I just gave you, that they're just sick and tired of opposing everything

Or maybe a quid pro quo between the parties - immigration for gun control.

[rex regnum insanit]

That's a terrifyingly real possibility. I believe that Obozo wanted gun control to either succeed to use as a club against Republicans or fail in the Republican controlled House for the same reason. When it fell in the Senate he was apoplectic. I think he now wants to either win the immigration fight (for obvious demographic reasons) or else lose it in the House to again blame Republicans. I wouldn't put it past the RINOs to cave on this one. If they do conservatives are finished and so is the nation.