"Our National Guard has been doing this for years."
Please don't undercut Bush's manipulation of the NG into a dog and pony show. His radical position is "moderate."
Things might turn around for Rove, it was a good idea to promote the NG show for a weekend, rather than, say, the guest worker program. I think it worked to some degree. If one prominent Democrat cracks from their self-imposed trance of silence and criticizes the plans, going on talk shows, the MSM will be hard-pressed to continue the silence.
For comedy, go to Dailykos.com and other "liberal" sites. The majority view by far is Bush's speech was to distract from Iraq, look like a leader, etc. etc. not to do with pushing amnesty plus worker programs too. A voice here and their voices dissent, but mostly silence. I suspect as with the maligned "Bushbotism" there is "Dembotism" - and it's in crisis in face of the reality the Dems are more than the Repubs out to screw the middle and lower classes. When facts conflict, many react with feigned ignorance.
I was talking about a specific National Guard, that has been patrolling a U.S. frontier already for years. See my previous post.