This is meant to *discourage* activism for CIR.

Yesterday he said the votes for Dream Act are there; today is this. Reid came up with that op-ed yesterday claiming that they can only move this with Republicans, and according to him, the more of them there are (ie, after they gain seats in November) the better for us to get immigration reform!

Someone (ie, Obama) is telling them to put the brakes on this - and they shouldn't. They need 60 votes to overcome a fillibuster; but only 50 to bring it to the floor. The problem is the Democrats.