While many Republicans denounced President Obama surprise Friday move on younger illegal immigrants, there was no sense in Washington, D.C. in recent days that Congress would seriously try to overturn that change anytime soon.
If you only paid attention to the Twitter account and web pages of Speaker John Boehner, you wouldn't even know there had been a decision by the feds to "not" enforce deportation laws against younger illegals who were brought here by the parents before age 16.
Out on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney was like Speaker Boehner in that both men kept their focus on economic matters, with Romney not even mentioning the immigration story in his stump speech.
Asked by reporters about the Obama move during a stop in New Hampshire, Romney clearly wasn't itching for a showdown.
"Young people that come here for no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and should be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country," Romney told reporters.
"I think the action that the president took today makes it more difficult to reach that long-term solution because an executive order is, of course, just a short-term matter ? it can be reversed by subsequent presidents."
Just last week the House approved a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which included a provision that prohibited the feds from doing anything to "circumvent or fail to enforce immigration laws."
"And yet, this is what the president is choosing to do," said Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), who labeled the Obama decision, "entirely unacceptable."
"This administration has yet again demonstrated that it will rule by executive fiat instead of working with Congress," Price said in a statement.
But as House members return to work today, there didn't seem to be any real way forward in the Congress for opponents of the change, which amounts to the feds deciding not to enforce certain immigration laws - though GOP lawmakers will hold an afternoon news conference.
That was obvious from the tweets of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who spent more time plugging his new book and his appearance on the CBS program "Face the Nation" than raising questions about the President's move, which actually tracked some of what Rubio wanted to achieve.
In the end, this may be more of a story that only lasts for a couple of days, with economic issues casting a much larger shadow over Election 2012.
The Reporter vs President Obama
As for the Daily Caller reporter, Neil Munro, who tangled with President Obama in the Rose Garden on Friday over immigration, the White House Correspondent's Association is taking a dim view of Munro's verbal exchange with the President.
While Munro claimed afterwards that he asked a question because he thought the President had finished his remarks, that explanation was met with some skepticism in journalistic and political circles in Washington.
A number of people sent me emails and Twitter messages saying that reporters were showing a double standard by criticizing Munro, but ignoring past transgressions against Republican Presidents - with the yelling of former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson getting the most attention.
But my recollection of Donaldson's work - and observations by Sam himself over the weekend - is that Donaldson yelled a lot at Presidents only 'after' they were finished speaking, and did not interrupt a statement as seemed to happen on Friday.
This case reminds me a lot of the aftermath of the "You lie!" incident involving Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), when he shouted at President Obama (also over immigration) during a speech to a Joint Session of Congress.
For some listeners, Wilson and Munro were both calling out the President, making any criticism moot of how they made their case verbally.
I have covered a number of events at the White House since the Reagan Administration, and I can't remember any one ever interrupting a President - it would be very bad form to do so.
Let's just say that Mr. Munro might not have the easiest of times getting approved for a day pass to the White House in the future.
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