If this is true, then I predict right now that Boehner caves and allows a vote on immigration reform in September. While 40-50 don’t constitute a majority of Republicans in the House, he’ll argue that it’s close enough because he won’t want to be the man who stands in the way of legislation he agrees with.
That said, I hope this Democrat is lying and that he really doesn’t have the Republican votes. If he is lying, he could also be trying to manipulate Boehner into holding a vote because…well, Boehner has no backbone.
THE HILL – Forty to 50 House Republicans will support immigration reform, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) predicted Thursday.
Gutiérrez said many of the Republicans supportive of immigration reform don’t want to be identified, but he insisted they would support comprehensive immigration reform.
“If they ask me today, go find those 40 to 50 Republicans, I’ll tell them I found them. I know where they’re at,” Gutiérrez said in an interview with Ed O’Keefe at The Washington Post.
“I’m not going to tell you the names of some of them because some of them I’ve spoken to, and they’ve said I’d love to do the activity with you. I want to be able to vote for it. I really don’t need to draw attention to myself.”