I've heard it several places. Here's one from National Review's The Corner:
http://corner.nationalreview.com
Please, Please, Please [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Tell me Tony Snow didn't say this. Via a reader: "FoxNews reporting from the White House: White House spokesman Tony Snow reacted to the change in House control by allowing they're disappointed, but that it presents some intriguing opportunities, such as passing comprehensive immigration reform which failed in the previous Republican House."
You'll have to excuse me, but I'd have to see the exact quote before I'll put any credence in that.
If we've learned anything in this little saga it's that the press lies -- theirs AND ours.
You know that immigration stuff was a loser for the Republican Party from the getgo. Bush was actually right on that issue and so was the Senate and the House wasn't. The House paid for it.
Triangulation.
There's a good political strategy in here. After all, it took Clinton to victory in 1996 and it took Arnold and, literally, revesed the polls by, what, sixty points (from being down about 60-30 to up that way?).
It's really quite simple, now. Work out some kind of showey "deal" on Iraq and immigration. Get enough moderate Democrats to vote to make the tax cuts permanent. Accept the minimum wage increase...
And, blamo, Bush's approval numbers go back up to 60.
Of course, that means sacrificing important national priorities, but a good chunk of the Republican Party has shown that it's not willing to do so, so why shoud the President?