Axelrod: Immigration reform blocked by congressional "reign of terror"

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/22/axelrod-blames-gop-for-immigration-stalemate/

Obama re-election campaign senior adviser David Axelrod put the onus on Republicans for the failure to pass immigration reform in the president's first term.

Axelrod said a congressional "reign of terror" has prevented supportive Republicans from cooperating on immigration issues, which were a hallmark of President Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign

"The nature of Washington is not monolithic opposition to everything the chief executive wants to do as a political strategy, and that is what happened here," Axelrod said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I think a lot of Republicans in Congress want to cooperate, know better, but they're in the thralls of this reign of terror from the far right that has dragged the party to the right."

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"To say that, because you have an implacable group of Republicans in Congress who simply won't let that move, that the president hasn't kept his promise, is a bit disingenuous," Axelrod told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley.