Border Patrol stands up, the National Guard will stand down

* calipendence met up with busby: "Anyway, she's emphasizing that Bilbray's campaign is ALL about immigration and he's paying attention to little else."
the polling in CA50 is all over the place, with busby's lead anywhere from 8 points to neck-and-neck.

* comment at fdl: "Shorter Bush… As the Border Patrol stands up, the National Guard will stand down."
love it.

* atrios:

"So... Journalist after journalist, editorial writer after editorial writer, freaked out for months over Fitzgerald's careful, last resort, by-the-book questioning of journalists.
Will the Bush administration's "fuck it, we don't need no stinking courts" approach inspire any such response?"

* krugman:

" All of this is, alas, terribly familiar. As John DiIulio, the former head of Mr. Bush's faith-based initiative, told Esquire, "What you've got is everything - and I mean everything - being run by the political arm." Ideology and cronyism take complete precedence over the business of governing.
And that's why when it comes to actual policy as opposed to politics, the Bush administration has turned out to have the reverse Midas touch. Everything it gets its hands on, from the reconstruction of Iraq to the rescue of New Orleans, from the drug benefit to the reform of the C.I.A., turns to crud."