More scapegoat anyone?

Time for more photo-ops near the Mexican border.

The economy's growth slowed sharply in the second quarter, logging just a 2.5 percent pace as consumers tightened their belts and spending on home building nose-dived. Inflation, however, shot up.

The trouble for the GOP is that when you ruin everything you touch, it gets hard to find an issue to campaign on.

But House Republicans think they found one.

Republicans suggested they would hit back hard on immigration, as House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R., Ill.) announced a schedule of 19 immigration hearings, mostly in border states, through Sept. 1. A House-passed bill deals primarily with border security.

So, you see, it's not just the meat-processing industry that needs illegal immigrants.