“Talk radio is running America,” Lott thundered from the floor of the Senate last week. “We have to deal with that problem.” “That problem” is that the Bush/Kennedy/McCain/Calderon amnesty bill got beaten like a cheap rug on the floor of the Senate last week. “That problem” is that prospects for its revival are dim, at best.

I don't know whether to laugh about the Republicans totally loosing control of their smear machine or cry at the prospect that so many in this country have been lead to such unrealistic expectations with regard to illegal immigration. I think this is going to get ugly.