Bush's Immigration Plan Stalled as House G.O.P. Grew More Anxious - New York Times

It won't matter. If the so-called leftist wins the presidency in Mexico, Bush will probably just invade the place.

Bush's Immigration Plan Stalled as House G.O.P. Grew More Anxious - New York Times:

"WASHINGTON, June 24 : For the White House, the Congressional picnic last week seemed like the perfect setting to mend strained relations with Republican allies on Capitol Hill: President Bush and his advisers eating taquitos and Mexican confetti rice on the lawn of the White House with Republican Congressional leaders.

But moments before Mr. Bush was to welcome his guests, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert told the president that House Republicans were effectively sidelining, and in the view of some Congressional aides probably killing, what had become Mr. Bush's signature domestic initiative of the year: an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

That disappointing news for Mr. Bush signaled the apparent collapse of a carefully orchestrated White House strategy to push a compromise immigration bill through Congress this summer, and in the process invigorate Mr. Bush's second term with a badly needed domestic victory.

The decision by the House leadership to defy the president after he had put so much prestige on the line, including a rare prime-time Oval Office speech for a domestic initiative, amounted to a clear rebuke of the president on an issue that he has long held dear."