David Frum: Guard proposal is “spectacular, expensive, unsustainable, ineffective”
[Bush's] plan won't work, and it is not seriously meant to work. It's supposed to look dramatic and buy the president some respite from negative polls - and then it is supposed to fail, strengthening the administration's case for its truly preferred approach: amnesty + guestworkers.I'd agree except I'd take it even further: this plan fits the profile of most of Bush's presidency -- do such a bad job of governing so as to prove that government itself is bad.