Immigrant bashing is as American as mom's apple pie. The latest batch of anti-Hispanic bashing, the suggestions that they're indigestible — the same things were once said of the Germans, the Irish, Italians, almost every other group.

They use the office's imagery.

It's a strange thing for Bush to have slipped into, given the savvy you expected from this administration, with a vice president who spent over a decade on Capitol Hill. It seems as if his people would have seen that there was potential for trouble, and at least done their homework on the Hill.

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.