Obama Immigration Vow Clashes With McConnell in Comity Test
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President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell promised Americans yesterday they’d search for common ground, then fired the opening salvos of a new battle over immigration.
The usually serious McConnell laughed, cracked smiles and joked as he met with reporters in Louisville, Kentucky, relating an invitation Obama sent for lunch at the White House and pledging an end to partisan gridlock. Yet he said Obama’s plans to take executive action on immigration, if Congress doesn’t act, would amount to “waving a red flag in front of a bull”