Don't promise something you can't keep. "We can pass Dream Act now and do CIR within 100 days". He forgot very quickly, hell immigration appeared exactly 0 times during his first inauguration speech. Every to do list of democrats - immigration always on the bottom.

Considering that the healthcare law essentially cost them the house, talk about squandered opportunities.

If they had wrote the Dream Act into the military bill back in 2010 instead of trying to amend it in we'd all be looking at filing for permanent residency right about now.
Also, don't ever forget that the only thing that we needed that night was for someone to say "Mr. President, I ask for the will of majority to be effective". Keeping order in that sinking circus was more important than our lives.