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“Bush even suggested we should sign on to the LOST treaty. Just damn!”

As he leaves office, he knows he’s never going to get the support of conservatives. I just think he’s pandering, at this point, to whomever will make him feel good and give him a bit of credit. He could get a a bump up from some conservatives, if, for instance, he pardoned R & C. But I think the bipartisan powers that be will not allow it and so he’s gone to the other side to get, at this point, what little approval he can.

(note to Liz...one of my concerns regarding this, is being able to separate "poor" who are Black Americans and "poor" who are illegal aliens or have anchor babies. Either way, those Blacks who need assistance will not want to prevent this from going through. If it's going to go through anyway, they need to understand that there would be a whole lot more money for poor Black American citizens, if the majority, I'm afraid, does NOT go to illegal aliens/anchor babies.)

From the Report link in the article. Some of these things are, IMO, legitimately important for LEGAL American citizens (in some cases, me, directly), but I think we all must assume that in every instance where the words, for instance, "poor people" are used, it is INCLUSIVE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS. Unless or until we are certain, CITIZENSHIP MUST BE PROVEN, that NO MONIES ARE GOING TO ILLEGAL ALIENS (or LEGALLY where anchor babies factor in, Jobs aside, THIS IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM AND IT MUST BE CHANGED), the bailout money to these should be STOPPED. We are going FULL CIRCLE here.

The proposed new spending includes:

* $87-billion to temporarily increase the federal portion of Medicaid, the health program for poor people that is managed by the states. This will help states that are experiencing deep budget shortfalls as tax revenues fall. (See The Chronicle’s story on state budget woes.) [like California, who's overrun by illegals collecting benefits]

* $2.1-billion to Head Start, the early-education program, to allow it to serve 110,000 additional children and create 50,000 jobs.

* $1-billion for Community Services Block Grants, which help states provide social services to low-income residents, and $1-billion for Community Development Block Grants, which helps them provide housing and antipoverty projects.

* $1-billion for Child Care and Development Block Grants, which help states provide child-care services to low-income families.

* $1-billion to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provides money to states to help low-income familiespay for heat and air conditioning

* $1-billion to help community health centers renovate their facilities, and $500-million to help them provide care to uninsured and underinsured patients.

* $120-million to the Community Service Employment for Older Americans program, which would allow charities and other groups to add 24,000 participants. The program pays low-income older people to take part-time community-service jobs.

* $100-million to the Compassion Capital Fund, which provides grants to religious and other charities to provide social services. The money would be directed to groups that provide job training, energy conservation, and other services for low-income families.

I couldn’t argue against your line of reasoning since there’s no other explanation I can think of that comes this close. Perhaps the only line that would is the one that admits he is a liberal at heart, a fan of the U.N. in sheep’s clothing, and he’s doing this because he is convinced it’s what our Founding Fathers would do.

If that is his thought, this man has no connection to Conservatism whatsoever.