It's been a busy week in the news but my sick kids didn't care. Priorities, priorities...

Bush took us on a roller coaster ride in that press conference today. (click here for text of speech)

He was on on Iraq. The removal of time lines from the war funding bill was a huge victory for Bush. The removal of billions of dollars of Democratic pork was icing on that cake.

Bush spoke honestly about the likelihood of more violence in Iraq as that country moves towards meeting the benchmarks required to prove the government is making progress towards independence. Pointing out that we are in that country at the request of the Iraqi government is a point that can't be made too often.

But then we have the immigration issue. How Bush can stand in front of the American people and make ludicrous statements about this horrific bill helping to secure our borders.

The bill reduces the size of the fence to secure that border by hundreds of miles.

The idea that this administration has done much to improve border security is generally laughable. What have they built 20 miles of the fence. The American people, if allowed to, would build that fence with volunteers in no time.

It's great that 1,000,000 people were apprehended before they succeeded in entering the country illegally. That tells us nothing about how many people actually did enter the country illegally.