For the second time, the Congress has rejected Mr Bu$h’s bullshit immigration bill, which was intended to supply a mass of new low-pay workers like the bracero program of the 40s. It would also have theoretically rounded up all of the estimated 12 million illegals in the country and eventually deported them, after separating them from their children, who by virtue of having been born here are US citizens and thus not eligible for deportation.

It was a poorly considered bill, written in haste to serve the political goal of keeping the savage base of the Republican Party enraged at yet another bogeyman, in addition to al Qaeda, Muslims, Democrats, Catholics, and all people with dark skins.

The bill failed, and Mr Bu$h just appears on television, apparently shattered that he didn’t get what he wanted after trying to twist arms in a White House meeting with Republicans.

Video here. Of course, Josh Marshall’s description of Mr Bu$h as a “sad sack president” is just editorializing, you understand.