Thread: Immigration: Steve King Smarting From Boehner TRICKERY

National Journal
By Fawn Johnson

Steve King Smarting From Boehner Subcommittee Rebuff

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, was in front of a live Fox News TV camera Saturday when he heard through his earpiece that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot in Tucson, Ariz. In the tumultuous hours that followed the parking-lot massacre that both enraged and subdued elected officials, it was easy to forget the reason that King was in unusually high demand for media interviews.

On Friday, King had been denied the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, a post he had very publicly predicted he would hold as soon as the GOP took control of the House in November. King was the ranking Republican on the Immigration Subcommittee for four years.

“I’m going to be OK with it. I’m going to be OK,â€

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There will be no Arizona-style immigration law in Florida.

There will be no crackdown on illegal workers.

Gov. Rick Scott will be leading no bus caravans back to Mexico.

If this is the issue that fired you up and drove you to the polls, then it served its purpose.

It rallied the conservative base. It played a key role in Scott’s race against Bill McCollum in the Republican primary.

But now the campaigns are over, and reality has set in.