The Blues

After the 54 votes against healthcare, what next to divide the Democrats in, especially, the House before the right side's winning in the end, and the conditions of its doing so (healthcare and abortion), mark a major staging post towards the creation of truer, better party dominant for generations to come? Two issues spring to mind.

One is immigration, which will pit big business New Democrats against the people who are blue-collar, black, or both. It will split the Blue Dogs in the way that trade liberalisation and social liberalism also do, and for much the same reasons. And it will split the Progressive Caucus. But the forces of strictly limited and strictly legal immigration, and of America as an English-speaking country, must win out. After all, whose party is this? George Bush's, John McCain's and Lindsey Grahamnesty's? Since we no longer need to worry that he will vote against healthcare, Bob Conley's replacement of Joe Wilson would greatly help this. Any news on that?

And the other is climate change. This time, Hispanics will be lined up with blacks, working-class whites, and those who look to the Blue Dogs and even many of the New Dems, to defend wages and working conditions, travel opportunities, a full diet, and the ability of the poor world to enrich itself, against the liberalism of the effete elite, with its gigantic carbon footprints, as exemplified by Al Gore. Something similar and related will apply on energy independence, especially coal, offshore oil, and nuclear power.