Posted on 06/16/2007 6:23:35 AM PDT by kellynla
Now that the president has tried to revive the comatose Senate amnesty bill, at least as big a question as whether he can bring it back to life is why on earth he would want to. Sure, he wants a win, because he hasn't had one lately. Sure, he wants a (gulp) legacy, because it's that clock-ticking time in his second term. But why this particular attempted win, which his political base sees only as betrayal? Why this hoped-for legacy, which would eliminate him from any conservative pantheon?
"It's a very emotional issue." That's what the president says by way of describing the acid turmoil his "comprehensive" immigration reform push has caused, particularly among conservatives. He's right on one level, but I get the impression he makes the point to dismiss his opponents' objections as volcanic eruptions of feeling, rather than legitimate and reasonable arguments.
At the same time, immigration reform is a very emotional issue for Mr. Bush himself. Too emotional. When it comes to illegal aliens -- in particular, illegal aliens from Mexico -- the man seems to be governed by his gut. And that, of course, is no way to govern.
I say this having gone back over the immigration file that has piled up during this administration. A strong emotional thread connecting Mr. Bush to the issue comes through stories about his beloved Mexican-born housekeeper/nannies, and through stories about his political associates with Mexican roots, such as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, or campaign aide IsraelHernandez, whom,Newsweek noted last year, "Bush hired after hearing his family story." Mr. Bush just loves those family stories.
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THIS IS WHY:
Pefectly natural. You’ve been reading FR lately.
Sorry, Mr. Bush, this one’s going to cost you and the Republicans dearly if you don’t wake up and smell the tacos.
:o) - well said
OK here’s my theory... its Karl Rove
He let the democraps win in ‘06 so the country could see the idiots that represent their leadership.
Then they promote the immigration bill, that they KNOW will never pass and will raise conservatives to action.
And ‘08 becomes a CONSERVATVE steamroller~!!
(A guy can dream, can’t he?)
One issue looses you - one wonders how you survive in daily life which has to be full of give and take if not compromise.
The dream of the US ruling all N. America is a very old idea. Goes back to the beginning of the country.
I’m not a single issue guy but there are certain red lines I am not prepared to see crossed.
Hey, when you’re done hitting the crack pipe, pass it over. I need that dream.
You really need to cut back on the Kool-Aide. Bush has made quite a few deviations from conservative values. His push for shamnesty is just the last straw.
You can argue, debate it etc but not surely say that it negates everything else he has done or said which is what so many are doing especially those who refer to him with the dreadful disrectpful nick name of Jorge.
The President has never promoted total conservative views and I do not see he has been in consistent with what he has said over the last 7 years, if they do not agree with your views that is a different thing.
I know quite a few Englishmen in my business. I told one of them the other day about the Mohamed thing. One started to get angry and the other said "don't worry about that, we're here now."
I see sickness here -- imminent barfing.
Take that any way you choose.
She turns on a dime! Damn, that Kool-Aide sure helps you do amazing political acrobatics!
There is ONE way the idiot Repubs can garner support for this giveaway of our country. Since “paying back taxes” was stripped from the language, it should be reinserted into the bill as a tax refund of 5 years worth for ALL Americans who have paid taxes. I personally would not like it but I am sure many would.
Well sure it's just "one issue". The issue at hand deals with radically changing America as we know it, and changing it for the worst. I'm sorry for you if you don't understand why someone wouldn't be willing to "compromise" on such a matter.
There are some things you just don't yield to, and breaking the laws of the land is one of them...for me, at least.
Further, the "give and take" in my personal life does not impinge on the rights of others...illegal immigration does. Finally, the give and take I engage in on a daily basis does not break the law. Hopefully, you can see the difference.
There's dreaming and then there's delusional dreaming.
Guys this is to give Hillary the presidency, divide the party and get republicans to not show up for elections.
Vote Ron Paul if you are really mad about this. They don’t want him in, and BUSH doesn’t care. Bush is trying to do something so he can implement MARTIAL LAW. He wins either way.
Congress needs to stop all lawmaking and impeach BUSH.
Enlighten me. Show me how to compromise with people that are ripping me off.
Guess maybe the rabid Bush haters might want to take a look at this. Seems the country hates your side just as much.
Bush actually has a higher approval rating then Congress.
The year of bad feelings, and not just toward the GOP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850785/posts
And by the way, if you noticed how I shrunk the font on his last name, yes that was an attempt on my part at 'dreadul disrectpfulness' for his last name.
Why bother snugs with such a story, gpapa? She likes it when illegals enter our precious country, so she’d be ecstatic to know that these same illegals are now entering our own homes while we are away at work.
Looks like the makings for the next Civil War.
President Bush did barf after this amnesty bill failed a 2nd time. He was in Europe. After he barfed, he told Putin where to go and the Kyoto Treaty people where they also can go. Let's help him barf again!
Oh, and bring up this bill for a vote when he is in some other country again.
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His family history from the time of this countrys founding has more to do with it than anything else.
They have fought to stop us from becoming an independant nation and to see it’s destruction and elimination ever since.
He was raised to be a One World Socialist.
Read also this from the FBI, dated June 13, 2007, regarding the Numero Uno supermarket chain, regarding murder, corruption and harboring of illegal aliens. http://losangeles.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/la061307usa.htm
Of course. My family's scrapbooks are filled with photos of my grandparents and great-grandparents demonstrating in the streets of the U.S. waving Russian and Hungarian flags.
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They keep telling us this is NOT an amnesty.....it seems they don't read the dictionary..if it looks, quacks and walks like a duck, it's a dirty, ugly pig of an amnesty bill.
am·nes·ty –noun 1. a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole.
3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense. –verb (used with object) 4. to grant amnesty to; pardon.
Remember that 11/2008 could be the time we jump out of the frying pan into the fire...could be Hillaryworld or Obamaville. We may have fond memories of today.
You really think there’s some value in a poll?
CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
Snugs, from your perspective in England, it may be that you are not aware of the repercussions of this bill, nor of the reactions against it outside of FR.
Did you know it has caused Trent Lott to declare war on talk radio?
Yesterday he declared that “talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem”.
Do you realize how absurd that is?
I respectfully submit that nearly everyone on FR has voted for President Bush, TWICE.
At issue ~ at STAKE ~ is our very sovereignty.
Respectfully, I’m not sure it can be appreciated by a non American, and I mean no disrespect to you.
Screw Trent Lott by telling him there is no ethnic or racial balance in his bill.
Good essay!
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