I don't expect people to change their behavior unless something in their life changes. GW has not been taking the border problem seriously. He's great about insisting on conservative judges, willing to confront the ABA. He's great about sticking to his guns on tax cuts. He's great the way he led us to victory over the Taliban. But Geraldo on Fox News showed just how vulnerable the Mexican border is, and nadda. Zip. GW has done nothing but make the Mexico border problem worse. Quite simply, there's a big fly in the ointment.
This reminds me when people kept saying that GW was going to handle the Clinton investigations better than we think. He was going to 'play it close to the vest'. Heck. He put the cards right in his pocket! It didn't buy it then. And I don't buy it now.
It's good to be confident and optimistic. But trust someone to change when no logical reason is given to explain why, and you are on the road to disappointment.
We all have our own take on situations. I never saw any true gain in George W. pushing the Clinton investigation. We would have bogged down and President Bush would have quickly been characterized as small-minded or some such.
There was no forward motion going to come from focusing our energies on looking back, not to mention the 9-11 horror landing on us all. We needed leadership and got it.
I'm confident George W. will deal with the border problems, but those are not the only issues on the table right now as you know.