“”4) It will improve the quality of GOP legislation: Putting Republicans in charge of the Senate will take a big excuse away from the Republicans on issues like immigration. Ironically, the reason the House leadership Republicans were so hell-bent on passing it this year was BECAUSE they feared the GOP would take over the Senate. Truthfully, they’d rather have a bad bill that codifies open borders and amnesty that they could blame on Harry Reid. Then, the line would have been something like, “We know it’s not the greatest bill, but what do you expect when we have to work with Harry Reid?”””
HUH??
Maybe that is their rationale.
That can play both ways, vote against it or vote for it and blame Reid.
I recall GWB had both houses (GOP) in 2006 and he still couldn’t get a bill and he concluded that he needed a Dem congress to get amnesty.
I think they wanted amnesty THIS year because they DIDN”T want it a campaign issue in 2016. They didn’t want it in the 2016 GOP primary debates. They didnt want Hillary running on amnesty,