Bottom line. McConnell wants Amnesty to become law. He just doesn’t want his fingerprint on it. That’s why he helped to get it through cloture but voted against the bill.
But when the republicans were in the majority in 2006, he was all for helping Bush get Amnesty through, and voted for it. That was the McCain-Kennedy bill, and McConnell voted Aye!
“Bottom line. McConnell wants Amnesty to become law. He just doesn’t want his fingerprint on it. That’s why he helped to get it through cloture but voted against the bill.”
Exactly. McConnell wants amnesty, but can’t support it when his reelection is coming up. Yet there were reports that McConnell was whipping votes behind the scenes for last year’s Senate amnesty bill even though he voted against it (another McConnell “show vote” for those voting in the Republican primary who are low information voters).
If McConnell makes it past Bevin, and makes it past Grimes, I suspect he and Boehner will want to “get immigration reform done.”