Felled at the Border.

"A lot of us worked hard to see if we couldn't find a common ground. It didn't work...I had hoped for a bipartisan accomplishment, and what we got was a bipartisan defeat." Harding had the Washington Conference, Nixon had China and the FAP...but it looks like there'll be nothing to dilute Dubya's dismal standing in the history books. Arguably his last chance for a positive domestic accomplishment shattered to pieces when the Senate voted 53-46 against closing debate on the bipartisan immigration reform bill. "The outcome was a major blow to Bush, dealt largely by members of his own party...Republicans on both sides acknowledged the immigration fight had riven the GOP."