FDR: "I agree with you. Now make me do it."

List of 'to-do's' for Obama's 2nd term:

Obama absolutely needs to be pushed in order to make important decisions. Remember, he's always being pushed, if not by the side of the 99%, it's by the side of the 1%, so it's not a matter of pushing or letting him govern in peace.

My list would start with Immigration.
specifically, I'd like:

1. Marriage equality -- Make it clear that all immigration agencies, DHS, DOS, DOL, all should treat all marriages equally. In places where legal marriage is not yet allowed, couples should be allowed to present the facts of the case for consideration: if the relationship looks, sounds and feels like a marriage, the adjudicators should be able to give it the importance given to a legal marriage.
2. Waiver Applications within the US -- Allow us to file applications for all kinds of waivers within the US instead of having to wait to file them after the individual has gone to the US consulate abroad. This would avoid unnecessary hardhip to thousands of families.
3. DACA expansion -- Allow applicants to file waiver applications along with their DACA applications. This would allow consideration of more complicated cases.
4. Morton Memo Affirmative Applications -- Expand the age groups allowed to file for DACA-type programs. The Morton Memo on exercise of prosecutorial discretion is the memo that underlies DACA. It sets out the priorities for ICE enforcement. Create a procedure for us to present the facts that show that we have been good members of society, and should not be living in constant fear of deportation.
5. Allow waivers of unlawful presence which include hardship to US employeers, using the PERM labor certification process. US employers often have key employees who turn out to be out of status. The employers should have a way to present the importance of those individuals to their companies for consideration.
6. STEM graduates.
1. Expand OPT.
2. Use Group A Schedule II 'pre-certification' to establish priorities for who can be petitioned for green cards without waiting.
3. Use EB-5 conditional residence and Canadian provincial programs as models to allow priorities for underserved areas. We don't need a one-size-fits-all system. If anti-immigrant states want to opt out, fine, let them.
7. Expand the visa quota for EB-2 at least to eliminate the backlog for these highly valuable immigrants. They are force-multipliers, creating many more jobs.
8. Use L-1A New Office as a model for a start-up visa class for entrepreneurs without regard to oversease companies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-president-asked-us-to_b_2130035.html

Here's Arianna's list, all of which look good to me:

1. Foreclosures
2. Drones
3. Prisons
4. Drug Ware
5. Climate Change
6. Voting