George Melloan’s Chicken Little, the-crops-are-rotting piece on immigration in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription only, I’m afraid) includes this unintentionally revealing sentence:
A legislative paralysis on immigration reform perhaps helps explain why a new AP-Ipsos opinion poll shows that the performance rating for Congress has slumped 11 percentage points since May, with only 24% of respondents voicing satisfaction with that body’s work.
In other words, Congress is unpopular because it failed to pass the amnesty! Whatever you think of the policy issues, this reveals a parochialism so profound that it perhaps helps explain the slump in the performance rating for newspapers.