Why did Speaker Boehner refuse to bring the comprehensive immigration bill, which was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support out of the senate in 2013, to the floor for a vote? This bill, if passed, would have corrected so many issues like border security while giving immigrants already in the US a pathway to citizenship.
At the time he said he wouldn't be able to abide by the Hastert rule, ie needing democratic support to pass. Guess what, yesterday he broke the Hastert rule when he needed democratic support to pass the 'clean' homeland security funding bill.
Apparently, republicans never want to win back the White House because it is becoming mathematically impossible with such a small bloc of voters.
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