I predict that President Bush will fail again in reforming immigration and income taxes, as he did with the Social Security, energy, and Medicare reforms, primarily for the same reason: Seeking to help the wealthy.

As he begins this week his reform initiatives regarding the huge immigration dilemma confronting our nation, his main concern will be to protect big business, as he recently did with the pharmaceuticals by providing them with a bonanza of giveaways, especially by not permitting Medicare to buy prescriptions in bulk which is resulting in higher prescription prices for consumers, and a larger national deficit.
He did the same with the energy legislation recently signed into law, which has resulted in huge finanancial profits for big oil, higher prices at the pump for consumers, etc. Let's admit it, this leader of ours is primarily concerned with the "welfare" of big business which forms the base of his large contributors to control both the White House and the Congress, while "we the people" continue to be powerless citizens.
In the case of the Social Security reform which he pursued with speeches across the country, our nation's seniors and disabled were able to see the light on time, before he was able to convince Congress to legislate the transfer of SS funds to personal accounts, via the big middleman of Wall Street, at the expense of future retirement pensions and a weaker SS insurance program.
The same presidential treatment is waiting the income tax reform recently proposed by a Commission. Just watch the president argue in favor of big business and industry, as the national discussion begins. At the end, no tax reform will be adopted because the main goal of the president will be to provide more relief to the high income earners as he has done during the last 5 years, and as the country falls apart with higher poverty levels, less people covered by health insurance, the lack of a decent minimum wage, high gas and prescription prices, and a crying need for  more equally-shared responsibility at a time of war and astronomical deficits. 
He will fail again, because America will refuse to continue going in the wrong direction. Mark my words.
Nick Ortiz