After 8 years of Clinton, this guy was a breath of fresh air, and I’m glad it was him rather than Gore in the White House on 911.
But he stubbornly, stubbornly, refused to secure the border.
I remember the radio interview with his Homeland Security chief. If you’ll remember, Duncan Hunter had got passed a law that required the building of the border fence, and also authorized the money to pay for it.
They asked, why hasn’t the fence been built? And the answer, there is no money. But the money was authorized as part of the law... Yes, the money was authorized, but the bill didn’t require that the money be spent ON THE FENCE.
That’s when my eyes opened and I realized GW would never close the border, pass a thousand laws, he would never do it.
Go back a few years. It was my belief when he came into office that his dream was to remove the border with Mexico. So glad were we to see Clinton gone, that conservatives were powerless to stop him. Then came 911 and Mexico refused to offer us any kind of support, not even condolences. They took the side of Canada and France attacking us in the UN. And while some 30 countries sent troops (Honduras sent a couple hundred) Mexico sent nothing.
I always said, for 200 soldiers Bush would have taken down the border in his administration. But their behavior gave conservatives the opening and the nerve to stop Bush’s plan to open the border completely. Though its hard to argue that it isn’t open now already.