Battles with Integrity

This seems to be the Bush administration's approach to many problems. In the case of immigration, the options suggested by members of its party are a) allow in as many immigrants as businesses can hire or b) expel every person whose ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, and erect a 100 foot high wall of plutonium around the country. In the face of these, they've chosen c) do nothing, and maintain the status quo.

Or, in the case of Social Security reform, their options were a) raise the rates and the cap slightly, to make the system solvent but gain nothing for their corporate cronies and actually make the super-rich pay taxes, or b) privatize it and piss off the AARP and anyone who's actually ever paid into the system. Instead, they chose c) throw it back at Congress and blame their inability to solve the problem on partisan politics.

But "dismiss" is certainly in the spirit of the hour, for BushCo is nothing if not dismissive.