Border insecurity?

The Washington Post has a thorough explanation of the issues surrounding the border fence and the legislation that might create it.

It's really just more Republican election-year politics, creative bookkeeping and an unrealistic (fraudulent?) estimate of what a fence would cost.

But maybe we shouldn't worry about it at all, since the bill lets Bush do whatever he wants with the money:

There also are questions of whether the fence will be more of a symbol to be used in elections than a reality along the border. For one thing, shortly before Congress adjourned, the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway to distribute the money allocated for the fence to other projects, including roads, technology and other infrastructure items to support the Department of Homeland Security's preferred option of building a "virtual fence."

The only question really is what exactly are our congressmen doing in Washington?