Fineman: Bush's Suicide Mission on Immigration Policy
Why is President Bush risking a nasty battle within his own party over immigration reform?

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 12:56 p.m. CT June 12, 2007

June 12, 2007 - Though I’ve never heard him use the term, my guess is that George W. Bush sees himself as a hacendado, an estate owner in Old Mexico.

That would give him a sense of Southwestern noblesse, duty-bound not just to work “hisâ€