Two of the most confusing editorials from Today’s Wall Street Journal. When Scaife told me not to cash my current check till Friday, I thought he was kidding – but now, my phone isn’t ringing at all. What gives ya’ll?

John Fund is trying to smuggle a solution across the border for our current immigration woes with a Dylan-esque “give me shelter from the storm”:

That’s why it’s good news that the glimmer of a workable compromise surfaced this week, courtesy of Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, (who) [...] says the only bill that can pass in this year’s hothouse environment may have to be one that couples stiffer border enforcement with a no-amnesty guest-worker program.

His proposal (which can be found here) would have the U.S. government contract with gold-standard private employment agencies such as Kelly Services to establish offices called Ellis Island Centers in countries that supply the most illegal alien labor today. The centers would provide an incentive for illegals to leave the country and apply for guest-worker visas in the U.S. that would be granted within a week by matching workers with jobs employers can’t fill with American workers.

How do we know these are jobs “Americans don’t want to do?” Were they ever advertised? This is an attempt to make illegal labor not conform to US labor laws while granting legitimacy to companies to violate US labor laws. How does the American worker compete with that?

Preternaturally, Lindsey Graham, the answer to the question no one asked, offers his unwanted opinion as he is yet another “finger on the pulse” kind of guy. And his other hand is on Hillary’s, eh, let’s go with leg:

As for the politics, South Carolina’s Sen. Lindsey Graham told the Los Angeles Times that if congressional Republicans can’t get a bill passed, “we will do to Bush on immigration what Democrats did to him on Social Security. It would be a signal to the country at large that we as Republicans, who own the whole government, can’t solve hard problems.”

(ed. – Now who’s making threats and stomping their feet?)

For all its limitations, Rep. Pence’s proposal is an innovative idea that can be used as a platform on which to build upon in the future. In the current political storm, it may be a port worth seeking shelter near.

Given that assessment, we’re looking more like a Blonde on Blonde solution – Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine. Take this brilliant “compromise” as you wish.

Then the feature editorial is in William Jefferson’s Defense!

Mr. Bush’s sensible decision to seal the Jefferson evidence has had the useful effect of calming this dispute down. If it turns out that Justice has to prosecute its case without evidence obtained from Mr. Jefferson’s Congressional office, so be it. Prosecutors have to work around such limitations all the time. Congress’s right to legislate without being intimidated by the executive is a core element of the Constitution, and bullying prosecutors shouldn’t be allowed to violate it.

Protecting a crooked Donk and unconvincingly arguing for Open Borders. What is up with the Wall Street Journal? What’s up with a lot of people for that matter?

No one was trying to stop Jefferson from “legislating” – they were trying to stop him from moving his marked bills out of the freezer next to his pudding pops. Hello, Abscam!

All I want is an honest and open government. They were elected to do the will of the people. Somewhere between St. Alban’s, push-polling soothsayers, and special interests, they’ve lost sight of that. And they’ve only got 5 months to get to LensCrafters.

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