My old boss Fred Barnes has a story in the new Weekly Standard on Bush’s minor rebound in the polls. This line, near the end, made me sit up straight: “Bush (and Republicans) could use fresh accomplishments. Winning passage of an immigration reform bill, for example, would be a legislative victory of the magnitude Bush hasn’t achieved since the Medicare prescription drug benefit was passed in December 2003.”

Oh dear. With victories such as the drug bill, who needs legislative defeats?