The irony is that there was a brief moment a decade ago that the GOP seemed to get it right on immigration reform.
In doing so, not only would President Obama act in line with a strong Executive tradition of creating immigration policy, but he may also encourage a hapless and inefficient Congress to get it together on immigration reform.
"We have this great opportunity right now, as systems are scaling up reform, to get it right".
And many Brazilians think that you have the unique moral authority to carry out this sort of reform, to get it accepted by the unions, and you didn't do it.President: I did more than that.
And the President has really zeroed in on this theme and I talked to him yesterday and he's going to push very hard for healthcare reform to get it done this year".
The White House is putting the full-court press on the financial industry to get it to stop resisting financial reform efforts that are making their way through the Senate.
But a few weeks ago Bill Clinton, no enemy of market reform, got it right when he said that we should help countries achieve "maximum agricultural self-sufficiency".
He claimed basic Christian values told him that "the government has got it wrong on welfare reform".
Copy of the original Patent Reform Act of 2007 via The Fire of Genius Updates to the Act here and here via The 271 Patent Blog Is the House getting it right on patent reform?
The memo says that the economic benefits of fundamental tax reform are uncertain, that major changes increase the risk of "getting it wrong", and that any reform would have "vocal losers and largely silent winners".
Public service broadcasting in the UK and the BBC can continue to thrive, he will say, but only if it accelerates reform, and getting it right is vital for the future of British creativity.
