The more I open my eyes to what Bush did, the less I respect him.
Agreed. The PATRIOT Act, anyone? “Family Values don’t stop at the Rio Grande”, anyone?
I despise him.
P.S. DHS, anyone?
Yes, conservatives should hold him in contempt for coining a new, nauseating, stupid platitude to push far left immigration policies.
Bush did a few good things. Altio may turn out to be the best. I think we can look forward to decades of brilliant dissents from Samuel Alito once Hillary replaces Scalia and Kennedy.
But on immigration he was absolutely worthless for most of his Presidency. Not only did he talk like a liberal, he championed amnesty and huge increases in legal immigration, both of which were guaranteed to to hasten the demographic doomsday for the GOP. In that way he was a role model for Rubio.
After 9-11 Bush could have rallied the country around conservative comprehensive immigration reform. We could have ended mass immigration. We could have gotten serious about border and interior enforcement. We could have abolished Ted Kennedy’s absurd Diversity Visas. We could have ended chain migration. We could have ended our asylum and refugee policies. He could have been the guy who halted the overwhelmingly pro-Democrat, immigration-driven demographic shifts.
But instead we were cursed with a guy who coins absurd excuses for illegal immigration, a guy who explained his liberalism on immigration in part to his growing up with a Mexican nanny!
Also, it should be remembered that Bush was also worthless on racial preferences. Oh sure he claimed to be against quotas (who doesn’t?), but when the University of Michigan case was before the Sup Court he let Alberto Gonzales embrace the left wing idea that achieving diversity is a compelling state interest. If you embrace that, then preferences are pretty much inevitable as they are the only way to achieve the type of diversity our elites want. Bush could have gone hard against preferences and tried to deal a severe blow to the Diversity Cult, but instead he went left. Some believe that his administration’s pro-Diversity stance was key in influencing the terrible Sandra Day O’Connor.
I sometimes wonder if people like Bush ever, just once, stopped to think about the collision between racial preferences and unending mass immigration. With Bush I’m sure the answer is no.
Lets dont forget Prescription Drug program (part D) That debt is now BIGGER than social security! Thanks George! Thanks GOP!
Don’t forget about “The religion of peace”.
And don’t forget him French-kissing the Saudis.