Trib: Labrador Cozies Up To Base

Don’t blame Congressman Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, for playing brinkmanship with national security just to score political points against President Obama’s immigration policy. Blame his constituents. Juan Williams does. Writing in The Hill, the Fox News political analyst this week checked in on Labrador’s attempt to derail the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation as leverage to rescind Obama’s executive order sparing about 5 million undocumented workers from deportation. “He’s putting the safety and security of our nation at risk so he can grant 5 million undocumented people benefits in the United States,” Labrador told Williams. “I think if we sell that case to the American people, the American people will revolt.” The GOP leadership doesn’t agree. In fact, it sees another debacle such as the 2013 government shutdown standoff Labrador supported as a way to force Obama to abandon his health care reform package/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: I suspect Congressman Raul Labrador, for all his ambition, could be a decent representative for Idaho, if he didn’t have to worry about offending the Far Right. Thoughts?