Reading Republican and right-wing websites the day after President Bush's immigration speech has just been a barrel of roffles. The faithful can't decide whether to dab at their eyes with lace hankerchiefs (American made, of course) or hurl cries of "Apostate!" up 1600 Pennysylvania Avenue. NRO's The Corner should be renamed Lachrymose Lane. Here's John Derbyshire, the newest Jeremiah:

I am sunk in gloom. Our politics is, and apparently can only be, reactive. Nobody will do anything about our borders, or about our rules for residency and citizenship. Soon — I'd say in the 5 to 10 years ahead window — we'll lose a couple of cities to terrorist nukes. Then something will be done, fast and fierce and probably not very nice. Until then nothing will be done. The President is clueless; the Senate is a joke; the House has some stalwarts, but it will have fewer after November.

We can always count on Michelle Malkin for deft commentary too: "They should send Bush out in the helicopters with a super hi-def scope so he could peer into their souls and see if they were gonna be hard-workin or no."