Great insight. We each should understand this but need to be reminded.
A president has to do all he can to help elections of conservatives, therefore, some issues have to come off the table.
On immigration - Bush holds to the point that family values do not stop at the border. But, he has come around to understanding our borders have to be safe. But, will he get anything at all - I doubt it. The issue is too controversial and neither side will give.
Bush is a poker player and Bush is the most attacked president in many years. He is looking at impeachment efforts if we lose the house, so expect him to consider his own welfare in this mess.
How he can get anything through with all the GOP caving on him, all the dems attacking him, I can't see. So, all of this griping we all do is really the fact that the GOP representatives do not support his goals, do not stand firm, are weaklings caring more about bribing the dems than helping us.
Might help us to cast the blame where it goes - our representatives that are worthless.
I sometimes wonder if anti Bushers find him an easy target away from themselves for their own negligence in doing the hard work of helping to elect responsible candidates to public office. Pres Bush is President of all of this country's citizens so I do not go crazy every time he swerves from my point of view. Who hollered the loudest about the need for Social Security reform and then were not to be heard from when the Pres spent considerable time going around the country trying to get some action on reforms? Then the gripe was about him spending 'political capital' on that instead of ----fill in the blanks. I think the term CONSERVATIVE needs to be defined each time a particular individual uses it to push their position because Lord knows I cannot always make the connection between the word conservative and the context in which it is being used. I think President Bush is doing the best he can with the few good senators and representatives that are putting this country first. He is a hard working man and a good man. Thank God for that.
Might help us to cast the blame where it goes - our representatives that are worthless.
Wrong.
Would be very simple for Bush. Hold a PR conference and say something like....I have directed my head of DHS to enforce the law. If you are employing illegals we will come after you. If you are in the country illegally you will be deported. We are going to enforce our laws.
There would be a stampede for the border.
Bush is the most attacked because he refuses to fight domestically. Going along, to get along, isn't cutting it.