The thing that is particularly troublesome to me is that a lot of Presidential or Democratic initiatives came together in the lame duck session EXCEPT for DREAM: 1) Obama's tax deal, 2) DADT, 3) START.

Sure, the omnibus spending bill didn't go anywhere and the 9/11 bill is still at play, but DREAM's failure is a huge albatross hanging over the heads of both parties.

I think any future DREAM campaigns should also focus on the fact that of all the initiatives the Republicans hate -- DADT for LGBTs, a treaty with the Russians, a spending bill for deserving 9/11 first responders -- it was an immigrant bill that they hated the most.