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- Congressman Mike Quigley: Other than Republicans controlling the House and the Cubs being the Cubs, things are going just fine.
Mike Quigley doesn’t think it was anything he said.
There are all sorts of theories about why Cantor lost and what’s going to happen next.
The House is sitting on an immigration measure already passed in the Senate that would allow some undocumented immigrants to achieve citizenship. Quigley believes there’s enough Republican support to get it out of the House, but GOP leaders don’t want to expose their members to more Tea Party challenges.
That’s the same approach Obama took with environmental policy—issuing executive orders to tighten rules for carbon emissions after Congress wouldn’t act.
When I ask for his take on Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Quigley doesn’t jump at the chance to sing his praises. Instead, he reiterates what all the mayor’s allies say: Emanuel has been forced to make a lot of tough choices, and not everyone’s going to be happy about them.
