Terry Michael on Cutting a Deal Over Immigration and Obamacare

If politics is the art of the possible, it’s at
least plausible that reasonable conservatives and moderate liberals
might reach a grand bargain taming the two big policy beasts:
immigration and healthcare. That could happen, writes Terry
Michael, director of the Washington Center for Politics &
Journalism, if Tea Party Republicans decide they dislike Mexicans
less than they despise the Affordable Care Act. And it would
require enough scared moderate liberal Democrats to realize
immigration liberalization is more attractive to swing voters than
illusory healthcare “reform.”

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