No Rest for the Successful

The good news is that health care reform will almost certainly be passsed and signed before Derby.

The bad news is that President Obama and Congress will no longer have any excuse for not dealing with the multitude of four-alarm issues demanding immediate attention.

Like immigration reform.

While most of the attention in Washington will be on the health care debate this week, both sides of the immigration debate are gearing up for a massive rally on Sunday that pro-reform advocates hope will put the plight of millions of immigrants back on the Washington agenda.

Organizers say more than 50,000 immigrant advocates from across the country will gather on March 21 on the national Mall in DC to demand what organizers say say was a Democratic promise back in 2008 to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.

Organizers of the rally say the immigrant community is extremely frustrated by the pace of reform, and worries its agenda will get tossed by the wayside by politicians afraid that taking up the issue will cost them dearly in November.

To that argument, organizers of the rally have a simple retort for Democrats: pass reform now, or lose Latino support in November.

"I cannot tell you how angry and outraged people are," Gabe Gonzalez, lead organizer of the rally told me when I asked him about frustration with Democrats from immigration advocates. "I have conversations with my progressive friends and they're always surprised at how visceral it is."

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The best news for immigration reform - as well as a jobs bill, financial reform, capntrade, repealing DADT and everything else on Congress' plate - is that success breeds success. Achieving health care reform should give both the administration and congressional dems the momentum and confidence to keep passing legislation to please voters come November.