Shiny happy border

By Creature

Like Tom Cruise making the morning show rounds, the president was all over the news last night promoting his comprehensive immigration reform package. CBS had an interview. NBC had an interview. Fox news had an interview. CNN had an interview. There was the president, all macho manly with his sleeves rolled up (they tell him the sleeve thing polls well), sitting in front the border, smiling smugly for the cameras. Over and over again. The idea was defense of the fence. The politics was to take up enough time on the evening news to throw us off the Hayden confirmation trail. From the "big" speech on Monday to today's well timed trip to the border, immigration and all its crisis trappings served its purpose once again as one big distraction from the real issues of the day. Mission accomplished.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)