D1: “It was being drafted as Bush’s policy, but it wasn’t necessarily Bush’s policy.”
SCP: “You don’t know that. It is an unprovable assumption.”
As is your own assumption, SCP.
I would agree with that.
Further, let me run this by you.
1. If this was guidence, it was bad. It would be misguided, anti States Rights, and a slap to the face of every Conservative in California, as well as the general populace who voted to deny illegal immigrants any services so they would got back home. And after all, isn’t this the Cruz plan today. We could have been 20 years ahead of the game if Proposition 187 had been respected and implemented.
Bush and Cruz were addressing it five years after it died because the attorney general and governor of California refused to appeal the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling.
That was an affront to the people of California. We were bitter about it, and then to learn of this, it just pissed me off to see Prop 187 talked about in this manner.
2. Then if Cruz is just polishing Bush’s policy off, isn’t he just playing along to get along? It means he had not standards of his own that told him it was wrong to trash the bill and the people of California.
I could not have worked for Bush in that capacity, due to a very strong disagreement on policy.
Ted was okay with it.
When Bush was telegraphing his policy on fixing the illegal alien problem, I was thinking at the time, I wish I had his ear so I could explain this issue to him.
Here was Ted with that ear, and playing along instead of advising sound policy.
It sticks in my craw to this day, the failure to implement Proposition 187, and those who trashed it after we got it passed.
And people wonder why this state is so Leftist.
It is because idiots within earshot of our leaders have no backbone.