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Someday you may figure out that to get a politician to do what you want, you have to get a majority of the voters in your corner.

A majority of Americans and Republiicans already oppose the Bush Amnesty for Illegal Aliens. They opposed Amnesty before January 7th; they oppose it now; they will oppose Amnesty in November.
Some of them will vote for President Bush anyway -- enough, probably, to insure his reelection.
Others won't, which could be problematic for Republicans further down the ticket.
So, I don't really see why President Bush is proposing something that is not only bad policy, but also potentially bad politics.

So, I don't really see why President Bush is proposing something that is not only bad policy, but also potentially bad politics.

Because he is the idiot that the media has portrayed him to be. He has no concept of how to lead and hold a party together. He does not understand that when 75% of society is against a proposal, chances are it is outright stupid. Bush is basically what happens when you get someone with the "punk rocker attitude" of "I don't care what you think, I'll do what *I* want to do" in the white house.

The Republicans in the 1990s had the opportunity to strong-arm through much of the classical liberal and conservative agenda(s). They could have pushed through a balanced budget amendment to the constitution, enacted strict judiciary reforms, term limits, repealed most gun laws and all the stuff most here call for. But they didn't because they're predominantly upper class Americans who have never had to live completely under the laws that the bottom 98.50% have.

Conservatism is fast becoming diluted by people like Bush. The extent of many new Republicans' conservatism is a queasiness about abortion, gay marriage and above average support for the military. There is no principled opposition to big government. It should alarm most conservatives that the Republican Party is moving closer to a neo-fascist platform rather than a conservative platform.