Republicans in disarray!

It’s not alliterative, so we most likely won’t see that phrase in any pundit’s written output anytime soon, but it’s certainly true.

…the Republican Party still can’t figure out what to do about illegal immigration.

It’s the issue that vexed Republicans as much as any in their 2012 presidential loss. It’s the one problem the party declared it must resolve to win future presidential races. And it still managed to bedevil the party again last week, when House Republicans splintered and stumbled for a day before passing a face-saving bill late Friday night.

The fiasco proved anew that a small number of uncompromising conservatives have the power to hamper the efforts of GOP leaders to craft coherent positions on key issues — including one that nearly two-thirds of Americans say is an important to them personally, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released last week.

And those are the ones that Senator Ted Cruz (R-Cruz for President 2016) met with last week and successfully lobbied to defeat Republican “leadership’s” bill to fund a whole 1/5 of what the Administration said was needed to meet the challenge of the kids coming across the southern border.

They owe their jobs to hard-core right-wingers in their districts and know if they weaken they’re almost certain to be primaried from the right. They’d rather keep their jobs than think about what might be best for the country and for those children. Statesmen they are not.