her ruling, he could always fire her. that's what then senate majority leader trent lott did when he got in the way of the bush tax cut. anybody believe that demes are going to do that? what happens if the senate tries to tackle immigration reform, something they tried and failed to do so before. george w. bush was in his second term in office and had bipartisan support in congress and yet a coalition never ns seemed, to well, coalesce and then the obama administration tried to revive the issue, but his tough actions at the border failed to mobilize activists, and bush and obama saw their efforts shot down by the good old filibuster. for two decades political leaders in d.c. have been stepping on rakes when they s wanted to provide a permanent pathway to citizenship for undocumented children raised ino the united states to adulthood, despite it being hugely popular even with republican voters.