For some reason, it’s being treated as a serious blow to immigration reform’s hopes that Mitch McConnell said today that the conflicts over it are “unresolvable.” Via Sahil Kapur, here’s what McConnell said:

“I think we have a sort of irresolvable conflict here,” he told reporters at his weekly press conference. “The Senate insists on comprehensive, the House says it won’t go to conference with the Senate on comprehensive, and wants to look at step-by-step. I don’t see how you get to an outcome this year with the two bodies in such different places.”

Oh, come on. The main differences that could derail reform’s chances have nothing to do with whether this will be done in one “comprehensive” bill or “step by step.” Dems have already said they have no objection to House Republicans passing reform in pieces, as long as the end result is something that in sum resembles comprehensive reform.

And that’s the rub — there is a debate over whether reform will end up as something comprehensive, but this debate centers on a core ideological difference over what should be done about the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. If anything, McConnell’s claim suggests Republicans are already casting around for ways to blame reform’s failure on procedural differences, rather than on that fundamental dispute.

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The author is a liberal.

Note how testy he is: In that respect he represents all Democrats who realize that they're being toyed with by the GOP but are powerless to stop it.

We played misters Boehner and McConnell, well played!