"They never intended to vote for Bush and are using whatever they can to justify that stance. "
Not true. Bush had my vote (even though I disagreed with his spending policies) right up until the immigration proposal. I had every intention of just holding my nose and voting for him anyway until that. Right now though I am just not sure what I will do with my vote. All his defenders seem to do though is ridicule and insult rather than real debate so that surely isn't swaying me in that direction. Of course, I am not really expecting you to sway me anyway. I am expecting Bush to sway me between now and November.
Please. You all are giving just as good as you get.
The Bush immigration proposal was in fact a directive to Congress to overhaul the obviously broken immigration system in the US. In his speech, he laid out a list of the things that he believes would have a positive impact in bringing immigration under control, but it's up to Congress to formulate the changes and send them to his desk for signature.
I have yet to hear any solution to the problem of the estimated ten million illegals already here, including the idiotic eighteen step list being bandied about in this forum, a list which fails to recognize the obvious hundreds of steps needed to arrive at a position where all those line items could be achieved...the complete defeat of the liberal wing of the government.
When making a decision on how you will cast your vote, you need to listen to what each candidate says that they will do if elected, estimate that candidate's electability (politicians can't make changes in government if they're not elected), and after you have voted for them, you need to track what percentage of their promises they kept while in office.
The problem with most people feigning disappointment with Bush's performance, is that they are judging him not based on what he said he would do, and how he carried out those promises, but rather on what they THINK he should have done according to their ideological position.