Jobs, jobs, jobs!

That should be the mantra.

Another Stimulus has less chance than Immigration of making it through the House. Tax credits and hiring subsidies will go no where because our side won't give big business a cheap tax cut, even if it would work in Real World instead of Rethug fantasy land.

So we can go out and talk jobs, but we can't offer any plans that would help matters any. We have won an important tactical victory in the Budget Battle, but we have just created the scenario where it's constant warfare over every issue, bi-partisan is dead for the next year.

The only hope is that we win in 2014, an event many here consider to be just short of certain. I am not so convinced. Off year elections are normally less than stellar for the party in power, and with the White House and the Senate in Democratic Hands, there is every probability that we'll stay just as we are for the remainder of President Obama's term.

Will squash all attempts. The next 12 months will be used as vengence against Obama and democrats. Don't fool yourself. 180 republicans voted to destroy our economy. ..

But the political operatives I have talked to see immigration as a political weapon. They don't really care about the immigrants, but they do want to drive a wedge between Hispanic voters and the GOP, and they intend to push immigration reform as a way to put Hispanics firmly in the Democratic Party's bloc.

Personally, I see little to be gained from pushing immigration reform, at this time, but the power players see it as an opportunity to further embarrass and destroy Republicans, so there you have it. Democrats intend to control the national agenda for a while with an issue that, they think, will help Democrats and hurt Republicans.



-Laelth