Originally Posted by gebodupa

I gotta say, Rubio is on his way to pulling off the greatest political sleight of hand of the decade. He is proposing what appears to be the same as the last Democratic version of the DA (non-immigrant visas, path to citizenship etc.) yet somehow presenting it as a Republican thing, a "humanitarian issue", and shifting the blame to the Democrats. Ironically, most voters or frankly anyone who is not directly affected by the bill, will not notice the similarity and the Republicans might actually support this.

However, if this one fails then we're done for good, until the next super-majority triple threat, which won't happen for a while, (or until someone comes up with a better slogan than change)