Obamacare woes drown out immigration push

President Obama on Thursday implored Republican lawmakers to pass a stalled, immigration-reform package, but the message quickly faded away as GOP leaders kept a laser-like focus on the botched rollout of the federal website for Obamacare’s new health exchanges.

Obama and his surrogates had hoped that in the wake of the recent government shutdown, they could pressure Republicans —weakened by the funding fight — to take up immigration reform, one of the president’s key second-term priorities.