get away from the 2012 election and the senate vote, it helps the house republicans who don t want to vote for it. but speaking to the time factor, the closer we get to the midterms that s also something in the house they re going to be thinking about, whether or not how their vote may be used against them. and i think one thing we also have to keep in mind when we re looking at the house of representatives when we talk about the pressure they ll feel, say, with some momentum coming out of the senate, that s looking at it from a very traditional sense. this is not, as you mention, this is not a traditional house of representatives. there s that certain caucus, they will not feel that pressure at all. they are anti-establishment. they are they re not necessarily inclined to compromise. they are not they certainly don t want to be corralled or rangeled bir their speaker. what they re passionate about is opposing the path to citizenship, what they call amnesty. they re a wild card
different. what i m looking for is this group working on it for years. this deal that fell apart both in 2006 and 2007, a lot of people have really wanted to see something happen. they ve got the advocacy community on their side. i ve talked to a lot of different people over the last few days who are saying, this senate bill isn t perfect. they don t don t love all the border enforcement for the reason raul is talking about but they re willing to let it happen because they to want see something. if that bipartisan group can come to the table and compromise, you might see shifting. with all this talk about pressure and whether it s on boehner or on the rest of the house republican caucus who are in safe seats, they re not having to worry about the latino votes in their district, you know what else alleviates pressure is time. nothing says john boehner has to put a bill on the floor any time soon. the senate could pass this as early as thursday next week. the house does not have to put a
voters. meanwhile, putting his speakership at risk. and i think, you know, everyone s criticizing him and trying to second guess what he s doing. i think so far, just from the purely strategic standpoint, he s playing his cards well. he s not way too much. he s trying to hang onto the leverage he has. even though he takes a a lot of criticism for not being able to control his house, if someone else were speaker, i don t think it s any different. that s the group he has. so i think he might be leaning towards a legacy. something on the side of legacy. it s so interesting to take a look at nancy pelosi. does he want to help him or sit back and say, good luck with that. you own it. looking at legacies, she s probably much more likely to retire than he has in the next few years so what does she want to do to bring this along? could this be her final grand bargain? she gave an interview to the washington post where she said, hey, have you to work with us now. john boehner, you hav
party to pass even though a majority of the house conference and this is that whole idea of secrecy, like what do they secretly want come into play? i feel like those republicans said, for our party we need to get the fiscal cliff thing resolved, we need sandy aid, but in my overwhelming republican district, i cannot vote for it but let s do it. maybe it wasn t a violation of the hastert rule in that sense. you know, robert, what do you think would happen if boehner put something like the senate bill, something with a path to citizenship f he put that on the floor of the house? what do you think would happen to him? i think boehner would perhaps be in political trouble. he s playing a chess game with the senate. he s trying to get to a point where the house immigration group that the congressman mentioned comes up with its own legislation, pathway to legalization and border security, his play for that to pass, a conference committee to meld with the bill, but if that
after the november election. though, they had it in their platform, if you remember. we have roll call reporting today that the house immigration group is considering that p proposal involving self-deportati self-deportation. given the visceral reaction to the idea the first time around, why would they even bring this up? knowing what the appetite in the country is, why even go down this road? isn t that a serious nonstarter? well, it is a serious nonstarter, but remember that many of these districts that were redrawn are heavily republican. they don t care whether or not it will have an impact on the party nationally. they only care about their own districts. in some of those districts, people support something like this. but again, 70% of america supports a pathway to citizenship. this bill has that. the senate bill, anyway. and the house version that