It warms my heart to read lines like this one (from a Chronicle piece about the Republicans scuttling the immigration bill):
Bush appears to be close to irrelevant on the issue, despite his televised address last month urging Americans to embrace the nation's immigrant heritage and provide a path to citizenship for most of the 12 million illegal immigrants now living in the country.Substantively, it's a double-edged sword: Bush is actually more reasonable than most Republicans on immigration, and those pulling away from him are moving in the direction of nativist demagoguery. On the other hand, killing the bill (and giving a post-election Congress a shot at immigration reform) was the best result we could hope for.
Still: 'close to irrelevant'. Nice.
If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it hobbles painfully like a duck...well, you know what to call it.
[That's all, folks]
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