I thinks that is fair also, but why should Dubya VETO legislation passed by a Republican controled Congress?
Amnesty was certainly a mistake but he did not encourage illegal immigration as Bush has done.
You are going to have to refresh my memory. Did Dubya say "Hey You! Illegal immigrant...(looks side to side - curls index finger) Come over here," and I missed it?
In the post 9/11 world, securing the southern border should be a security priority, not a vote buying strategy.
It could be that Dubya is recklessly endangering all our lives for votes that he can't recieve, or it could be all that "compassionate conservative" stuff was fer real. Maybe Dubya thinks immigrants are compelled to come to America so they can work and feed their families. He may even see them as children of God, with meaning and purpose. That is certainly what Reagan thought. I think President Bush is capable of leading America while still holding concerns about forms of unnecessary social misery around the world.
He said that illegal immigrants were only here to do jobs that Americans won't do. He has continuously encouraged illegal immigration.
Bush even called the Minutemen volunteers "vigilantes" and very much denounced their efforts.
If the congress passes offensive legislation (and they have) then Bush should veto it no matter which party is in charge.
The fact of the matter though, is that the republican controlled congress (thanks to the senate) is passing exactly the bills that Bush wants them to. That is why he is not vetoing any of them.
Everyone complains about RINO's in the senate, but Bush is the main RINO in our government.
Uh, because his JOB is to veto unconstitutional legislation, regardless of which party passes it.