This bodes well (not) for the federal government’s ability to manage all those new visas that would be issued under Bush-Kennedy:

WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator called the situation “a mess.” His Republican colleague said it was a “crisis.” No matter the semantics, the Bush administration on Tuesday acknowledged criticisms it had grossly miscalculated the demand for passports by Americans hoping to travel by air this summer to Canada and other western hemisphere destinations.

Useless, simply useless.