[Sabertooth]

In retrospect, you are right. But I think they totally misjudged the reaction.

How is that possible?

The Bush Administration has been angling for ways to push a large Amnesty for years, in the face of many polls and letters indicating that most Republicans do not want Amnesty.

Some of us have spent a lot of time making sure that Bush knew exactly what our reaction would be, in our efforts to dissuade him from Amnesty.

What could we have done to better prepare him and prevent the Amnesty debacle?

[brydic1]

I would like to suggest that the election of Al Gore in 2000 would have probably cured the problem of illegal immigration. Following four years of chaos following the deepening Clinton recession for which Gore would have had no solution and the attack on NY for which likewise he would have had no solution, most peoples of the world would not in their wildest dreams be trying to come here and those illegals here would have lined up at the border to return home.

[Cold Heat]

What could we have done to better prepare him and prevent the Amnesty debacle?

Well, the issue in now on the table. It was not getting nearly as much attention before, on a national basis.

I don't think that anything more could have been done based on the realities. Bush truly believes that it is in the best interest of the country to proceed this way.

I do not buy the arguement that he is pandering.