Cantor blasts Obama immigration plan

Former House majority leader Eric Cantor slammed President Obama’s plan to unilaterally reform immigration, which he said would create a “very, very difficult” climate in Congress.

“If he does that, that’s incendiary,” Cantor told NBC’s “Meet The Press” in his first apperance since he was ousted in a June primary.

Obama said this week that he was planning executive action on immigration, a move that inflamed the GOP.

The president announced his intentions just days after Democrats faced a blistering midterm election that yielded Senate control to the GOP for the first time since 2006.

He said the president’s move on immigration would inflame the GOP more than if he acted on healthcare because he said “we know that’s going to happen.”

Cantor stressed that both parties’ actions early in the session would determine the future of key legislative goals.

“I think you’re going to see within six weeks whether there’s going to be common ground,” Cantor said.