Source: New York Times
Said Rove, the former senior adviser and deputy White House chief of staff under President George W. Bush who just published a memoir, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.”: “I wish we had led the second term with immigration reform. If we had led with immigration reform at the beginning of the second term we could have had bipartisan cooperation with a Republican majority in the House and the Senate and done something important for the country that was tilted more toward what the Republicans wanted but couldn’t have passed without Democratic votes instead of Social Security which Democrats wouldn’t participate in until they had a taste of victory. Immigration reform would have given everybody a bipartisan victory and would have cleared the ground for entitlement reform.
