Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 8:19 AM by Gene

Now that the immigration mess has ended -- but not the immigration mess -- one must ask why our "leaders" bothered. Perhaps Dubya wanted to show he was something other than the incompetent crouched in the White House bunker, his every utterance carefully controlled lest he create another Bushism. Why did he dare stake so much on so little? Why would he risk whatever infinitesimal goodwill he has left with a bill that, by the very nature of split government, was doomed to be a string tied into a thousand knots, and in an age where courage is merely pulling one on the voters while praising your own superabundance of it? We can see why Whiny Reid wanted this; he wouldn't have to lift a finger and he'd have Dubya wrapped around it. Little could anyone know that a certain entity called the people, in its imperfect form, might object. This whole stupid episode is a mystery of the ages, and happily it's already fading into their darkest recesses -- until we have to face up to illegal immigrants again, and we'll still lack the guts to confront them.