They could get it done if they sneak it into some appropriations bill. You are correct, there are Rednecks that are against it, but the African-American community is just as much against it.
The point is this was supposed to be something they wanted to sneak through and Obama's 'maneuver' basically blew that all to hell.
The issue is one of Obama's favorites and he doesn't want it to go away by signing anything that makes it law.
So Obama get the credit, nothing changes, and fools like you think this is a good thing.
What a wanker.
Why should they be "sneaking through" something that should have been done years ago, and would have been had you not let the bigots dictate to your party?
The real problem is that the GOP has played people against each other to distract them. Straight against gay, brown against white, non-union against union. And they've been doing this for years. Because the last thing you want is for these people to realize that they are all in the same boat that the rich have been swamping with water since 1980.
And Obama has figured out how to turn this around on you, and you are stuck saying, "Um, yeah, I was going to get around to that, but only in a way that doesn't offend people I despise but need the support of, but you went ahead and changed the policy on your own."
Obama only figured out how to jump on an issue and own it and at the same time poison the process. Almost everyone agrees that it's the right thing to do. Obama could have kept his trap shut and done something good, but as usual he turns a good thing into a divisive issue again. Anyone who tackles this issue publically invariably comes under attack.
It is not law and even Joe Arpaio says he would enforce it if it became law. Marco Rubio was working on such a bill and Obama hears about and rushes out and makes this announcement, an announcement he himself said several times he didn't have the authority to make.
Now the truth of it is coming out and Obama is once agaim showing he's not working with Congress, not the other way around, but you're too biased to see it.