1. There was no Social Security crisis last year, other than the GOP raiders who have wanted to end the program for 70 years realizing that President Bush's fake reelection "mandate" may have been their only chance to do it.

2. There is no immigration crisis, other than the President's party realizing they need a wedge social issue as part of a desperate attempt to drive scared neo-racist "conservative" voters to the polls in November, and fear of Teh Mooslims and Teh Gays isn't working anymore.

Now, lest this encourage you somewhat, keep in mind:

3. The Democrats put up a great resource for last year's Social Security debate at "thereisnocrisis.com". However, sometime this year, they let the domain name lapse. It's now owned by an Indian outsourcing software company using it as an Adsense magnet for job ads.

   The most successful progressive policy Web site of the last five years, and they let someone else hijack it.

Still, let's keep some perspective. We do not have to find a solution to the "immigration crisis" because there is no crisis. Thank yew.