Well, there were other issues on the agenda before: passing healthcare reform, wall street reform, the oil spill in the gulf, the sinking economy. I wasn’t expecting Obama to deliver comprehensive immigration reform lat year or the year before.

Sure, they could have attempted to deal with this before the elections, but they were trying to hold on to as many moderate Democrats as they could.

Let’s understand the politics of this. For better or worse, this is the best chance we have to deal with it. Republicans are using the tax cuts for the rich to block any votes on Dream. Obama and Reid can’t do this one alone. It’s going to be the fasts and the phone calls from us that are going to make this vote happen. Let’s quit expecting that they will do this for us.

And who would you vote in, Karen? Palin and Gingrich? No thank you. I will go for Obama another four years. We all know that we are going to be in it for the long haul with CIR. It may take another 10 years, but this is not Obama’s fault. It’s about the lingering anxiety over national security and the economic stagnation that is really making this hard.

I think now is the time to cease with our attitudes of suspicion and work with the White House and even Gutierrez to get the Dream passed.

I think Karen is still upset that Hillary lost.

And just to clarify, in no way does this post imply or want to imply that the DREAM Act is not something to push on. Looks like a vote on Wends.

Karen,

I clearly am not an Obama apologist. I am referring to comments you have made here before regarding how, in your opinion, we would not be in this place had Hillary Clinton won.