Picking up where Eric Cantor left off: AP’s Erica Warner reports on Twitter that at his “pen and pad” press conference today, GOP House Majority Leader McCarthy, “hedged on whether House will pursue legal action against Obama on immigration, saying they already achieved what they wanted.” And what was that, exactly? A District Court judge has held up Obama’s executive amnesty, but it’s by no means dead. McCarthy (and his sidekick, Rep. Renee Ellmers!) will apparently pass up no opportunity to talk tough and then wimp out on immigration. …

P.S.: Warner also tweets that McCarthy “said … he will bring back the border security bill abandoned when conservatives balked, combined with Goodlatte bills.” It was widely — and rationally — feared that these bills are seen by the House leadership as a precursor to passing some kind of amnesty before the 2016 election ( ‘See, the border is secure!’).

The Boehner/McCarthy drive for amnesty hasn’t gone away. Stay paranoid. …