The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board, a voice of institutional conservatism, said Boehner’s responsibility is to silence the voices of the shrillest anti-immigration Republicans." The Journal, which supports the pathway to citizenship, says House Republicans should be "willing to debate and vote" on that plan

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Another problem for the Republican Party is the Great Gerrymandering of year 2011 as a result of the Republican triumph in the 2010 midterm elections, this redrawing of Districts to favor Republicans will paint them into a corner and backfire in a few years, as Demographies that vote for the Democratic Party grow in other districts where the Democrats will never lose

Gerrymandering is famous for leading to undesired consequences for the parties that practice it in several countries, because they divide the people, produce segmentation that later people resent

Excerpt from POLITICO.COM :

"The dumbest strategy is to follow the Steve King anti-immigration caucus and simply let the Senate bill die while further militarizing the border," the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page wrote on Wednesday, referring to King, an Iowa Republican. "This may please the loudest voices on talk radio, but it ignores the millions of evangelical Christians, Catholic conservatives, business owners and free-marketers who support reform. The GOP can support a true conservative opportunity society or become a party of closed minds and borders."

POLITICO.COM
Immigration reform 2013: GOP leaders say House must act
By JAKE SHERMAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and JOHN BRESNAHAN
July 10, 2013

Immigration reform 2013: GOP leaders say House must act

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