Froomkin: White House at Cross Purposes

As President Bush's traditional allies fall away, there are signs that the curtain that has been so successfully drawn around the inner workings of the White House for so long is coming down, too.

Two recent glimpses into how the White House does business suggest that staffers are sometimes working at cross-purposes -- or, as Ronald Reagan once famously put it at a Gridiron Dinner, sometimes its right hand doesn't know what its far-right hand is doing.

In Sunday's Washington Post, Jonathan Weisman and Jim VandeHei tell this amazing story: "While President Bush was on the U.S.-Mexican border Thursday promoting an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, Senate conservatives were persuading a team of White House aides to deny 200,000 low-skilled immigrants citizenship."

That happened in a series of private meetings with lower-level aides.

The result: "After 8 p.m., a succession of conservatives went to the Senate floor to declare Bush's support for their amendment to ensure that temporary work visas really would be temporary."

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wanted them to put in that Felony provision. more of the same?

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