Gridlock News

Americans definately want the Immigration bill to die. They also desperately want Immigration reform.  The truth is almost no one is happy with the current situation.  So when the immigration bill died last week, many people were immediately happy and then immediately upset that nothing had changed to improve the situation.

Probably the biggest problem with last weeks immigratin bill is that it just was not a workable plan.  But at the same time no one has put together a workable plan yet.

We are looking at a classic case of super gridlock.  Something that is so broken that it must be fixed now, but so broken that no one can find a plan to fix it now.

The result is that we are in a catch 22.  There is no way to escape a catch 22 successfully.  The only way out is to break the loop.  That means that there will never be a compromise that will solve the loop conundrum.  To put it another way, any plan will work better than no plan.  We need to purposefully take 2 steps forward knowing that we will likely take at least 1 step backwards, but at least we will be in a new position and able to potentially have a new option in the future. 

Link to Broad Effort to Resurrect Immigration Bill - New York Times