Republican House members are telling the president that pushing his amnesty/guestworker plan will sink his other reform initiatives. In an earlier interview with the Washington Times, the president pointed to his success in passing the tax cut to explain his confidence that Congress would support his immigration proposal. Completely aside from the merits of the plan, there is simply no political comparison between the two: all Republicans favor tax cuts, at least in theory, whereas most Republicans oppose the president on immigration, creating the possibility of a serious political split in the party, as David Frum warns in the cover story of the current NRODT. And it gets worse: since there isn’t a single Democrat — not one — who would vote for the president’s immigration plan as he outlined it last year, the White House (if it’s serious about actually pushing an immigration bill) will end up reversing course and adopting the Democrat/McCain approach of giving green cards to the illegal aliens. Given the president’s repeated opposition to amnesty, which he defines as giving green cards to illegals, this would blow up in his face just like his father’s tax increase after the “read my lips” promise.