Leni, don't discount something many of us knew:
Bush needed to do anything he could to outwardly support the PAN Party in Mexico, and I'm not at all surprised this news comes right after their election.
I have more faith than ever in this administration. And I don't believe it has anything to do with a trickling spigot.
Maybe the greedy businesses that support Bush's amnesty are donating enough pesos to keep Mehlman from tearing his hair out, but the Pubbie accountants know that the small donors in fly-over country are fed up and are holding back on their donations. And this translates into votes drying up as the GOP money-men can deduce quite well.
I know even from reading all kinds of FR threads for months that I'm not the only one sending donation envelopes back with snippy comments on amnesty.
No national committee ever has enough money. You may think Bush can bring most of the money in himself, but it doesn't work that way. Wait till the Republican candidates in tough races start screaming at the national campaign committees for more money, more money. Then some people may find out the hard way that there's NEVER enough money for everything that's needed.
Leni