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If this monstrosity if killed - and please Heaven make it so - then Bush has only two choices:

He can do nothing about securing the border, i.e. the status quo. This would seem to be his preferred choice.

Or, he could finally, after six and a half years, get serious about border control and employer sanctions, i.e. enforce existing law. Since he has declared the status quo to be a "crisis," this would be the logical choice - but does anybody expect logic?

"Or, he could finally, after six and a half years, get serious about border control and employer sanctions, i.e. enforce existing law. Since he has declared the status quo to be a "crisis," this would be the logical choice - but does anybody expect logic?"

You know, one thing I wish Bush would have come out this strong about is SS. If he would have pushed as hard to let us put our $ in a private account I would have been ecstatic.

He folded like a lawn chair on that and then came out and dug in his heels over this pig?

"If this monstrosity if killed - and please Heaven make it so - then Bush has only two choices:
He can do nothing about securing the border, i.e. the status quo. This would seem to be his preferred choice.

Or, he could finally, after six and a half years, get serious about border control and employer sanctions, i.e. enforce existing law. Since he has declared the status quo to be a "crisis," this would be the logical choice - but does anybody expect logic?"

So you don't think he'll just issue some executive order giving them a de-facto amnesty? You know, some Paul Begala-like proclamation "stroke of the pen, law of the land" kind of thing. That is my real fear. If President Bush does not get his way, will he go so far as to act on his own?

This is all just so amazing. There is nothing in his entire administration that he has fought so hard for, not for his staff, not for the courts, not even for the war in Iraq. If this so important to him, how far will he go to get what he wants? It's scary to think about.