Something important just happened, and we should notice it before the moment slips away: Just for a few weeks, before the disastrous immigration bill was defeated in the Senate, the old Reagan Coalition came alive again across party lines. That fact could impact the 2008 election more than any other. It's hard to know who felt more relieved when the flawed immigration bill self-destructed last week in the Senate -- Republicans, conservatives, or ... Democrats. Because the isue of immigration threatens to revive the old Reagan Democrats. There's nothing Democrats fear more than a revival of those habitual "D" voters who turned in their millions to a straight conservative president, because he expressed own their deepest values and beliefs. Those voters have been abandoned and betrayed by the Democratic Party for decades, but they still won't admit it. Before the immigration issue fades, we should think about bringing them back into the tent. Middle-class Democrats live like...(Read Full Post)