[SunStar]

When his Daddy broke his no new tax pledge, it was a punch in the gut to those who elected him. Somehow I feel the son just delivered a punch in the gut to me and many others who helped to elect him and in that election more than any other we the individuals voters feel he would not have been elected if not for our individual vote.

The difference is that this President didn't break a pledge. He's been saying since the 2000 campaign that he supported a guest worker program. If you voted for him thinking otherwise, it was your mistake.

[CalKat]

I don't think most voters equated a guest worker program with granting amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens already here. I think's that's where the feeling of betrayal may be coming from.

[Biblebelter]

Bush the senior's tax program was really a combination punch. Not only did he expose himself as an outright liar, he showed that he was an impostor in that, his conservative credentials were always suspect, when he signed a tax increase no real conservative would have signed, then many not only felt they had been lied to, but they had been duped as well. His son has always had to defend his conservative posture, not only because of his family's liberal republican roots, but because his education bill, his inability to rein in pork barrel spending in his own party, and always his stance on illegal immigration. His speech today will make his conservative claims more suspect than ever. The gut punch today is that once again a Bush appears not to be the conservative that he claimed to be.

[pooh fan]

I don't disagree he may have intimated a desire to do something about the immigration issue before he was elected AND before 9/11...that little detail changed everything for me and the nation @ large.

I confronted Hugh Hewitt just last week on his radio show about this very issue and he indicated that I was out of line to do so, because it meant a vote/support for Dean. Now thats a repulsive thought to a registered Republican. But equally repulsive is the idea of continuing to reward illegal behavior.

I thought the whole idea behind NAFTA was to increase commerce & thereby wealth for Mexico. That country remains corrupt and now American taxpayers will be supporting even more of their economic refugees. And don't tell me they will pay into the system; at minimum wage jobs, they will pull more out than they will put in. AND be elegible for Medicare/Medi-Cal and the like.

And about all those alleged jobs illegals take that Americans won't: Why is it we can't require people on welfare to work for their $$ but taxpayers are required to pay the entire tab for them??? It just ain't right, I'm tellin' ya'!!