President Bush is threatening to veto the entire DOT appropriations bill (onto which the amendment disallowing the Mexican truck pilot is attached) unless he gets his way and the pilot is allowed to go on.  This is a pilot with no measurement of success or failure, though I suppose to fail would be to kill a large number of people, no way to document the safety of the trucks coming over the boarder, and no way to monitor the drivers actions prior to coming across the border.  It’s part of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)  that we would open our borders, but I don’t think there’s anything in there about opening our borders without regulation or safety measures in place.

So.  We shall see what he does next.