It’s really stunning how weak Speaker Boehner is. He can’t even articulate a strategy for immigration reform. So, we’re left to trying to imagine how he might go about either passing or killing reform. He could do this or he could do that, but he can’t do this and he can’t do that.
He’s painted himself into a corner where he can’t do anything that doesn’t have the support of the majority of his caucus, but he doesn’t have the balls to say that he doesn’t intend to pass immigration reform. The result is that he has to pretend that he is going to do something, but whatever he does will be purely for show. He wants to be able to say that he tried and he wants to be able to blame someone other than his own caucus for his failure. That’s the only strategy he has. It’s pathetic.
