DAILY BEAST: President Obama made a crucial tactical shift on Tuesday as he offered a full-throated appeal for immigration reform, embracing the plan cobbled together by a group of senators from both parties.
Despite predictions that Obama would unveil a significantly more liberal approach than the group led by John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Chuck Schumer, he made the calculation that having big-name Republicans on board could break the logjam on Capitol Hill.
Speaking from Las Vegas, the president wasted little time praising “a bipartisan group of senators announced their principles for comprehensive immigration reform, which are very much in line with the principles I’ve proposed and campaigned on for the last few years.” Translation: I’m on board… (more)
