King Boehner can do what he wants on immigration or anything else because his job is permanent. Democrats can allow him to run unopposed or virtually so in his Ohio district indefinitely. In Nov. 2010 the Tea Party made Boehner a King

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11/6/12, "Speaker John Boehner won unopposed re-election Tuesday to his Ohio congressional seat." "John Boehner Reelected In Ohio House Election," AP

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12/4/13, "No Excuse For Republicans To Cave And Grant Amnesty," IBD Editorial

"Strong signs point to House Speaker John Boehner leading an amnesty cave-in that delivers millions of new Democratic votes. Republicans should man up and put border security front and center.

The two words "Becky Tallent" resonate with conservatives in Congress the way "Howard Baker" did when Ronald Reagan welcomed the liberal Republican senator as chief of staff during Iran-Contra, bringing most of the Reagan agenda to a screeching halt; or the way the words "Susan Kennedy" did a decade ago when newly elected California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger crushed his supporters by hiring the hard-line Democratic operative as chief of staff.

Speaker John Boehner just brought on to his staff Rebecca Tallent, now director of immigration policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank that is the brainchild of four strange bedfellows: Baker, former Senate Democratic leaders Tom Daschle and George Mitchell, and former Senate GOP leader Bob Dole.

Last month, Tallent called it "imperative" that we have "strong immigration" for the sake of "future prosperity and labor market strength."

That, of course, could mean anything. But Tallent was chief of staff to Arizona Sen. John McCain, the failed 2008 presidential nominee who can always be found pushing his party to the left.

And she had a lot to do with McCain joining to push for amnesty for illegals in 2007 with the man most responsible for turning the immigration system into a voter recruitment tool for the Democratic Party nearly a half century ago--Sen. Ted Kennedy.

No wonder the speaker downplayed Tallent's hiring, announcing it as just another name on a list of staff changes. Republican leaders seem poised to cave in on amnesty out of fear of being called Neanderthals and of losing the Hispanic vote. Both may happen anyway.

The truth is, immigration is an issue that with some guts and smarts, Republicans can own. With the FBI catching young U.S. citizens headed for the Mideast to become American jihadists trained by al-Qaida — and, just this week, a truck filled with toxic nuclear waste hijacked in Tijuana, Mexico — Republicans should be shouting that we'll talk about what to do with our 11 million illegals only after we secure this nation's borders.

There's even a tie-in to ObamaCare that Republicans can exploit. Illegals aren't allowed in the insurance exchanges, which means that many of the millions who aren't covered can instead be found in emergency rooms, getting a free ride costing taxpayers billions.

Immigration can and should be a winning issue, even for a "stupid party" that all too often couples its Stone Age strategy with cowardice."