THe Presidents speech was principled. He has had these views for years.
>THe Presidents speech was principled. He has had these >views for years.
He can not ensure nobody goes thruogh the border, but he can enforce people learn English? C'mon..
"Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande"
from his 2000 campaign.
NOTE: Vent to the Whiny-Baby Republicans out there:
Stay home on election day because your're pissed at Bush?
Go ahead. Kiss your family goodbye after November 8th.
I don't know who's more full of crap on this issue the so-called "shoot the bastards" pundits or the clueless Democrats, but this immigration issue isn't going to be fixed by taking your ball and staying home on election day.
This problem didn't begin in 2001 and isn't going to get fixed by 2008 or beyond. Fact is that whether you like it or not or believe it or not WE created this problem not President Bush. You might not like his solutions or plan, but calling him "El Presidente" is childish and moronic.
So in closing, stay home if you want. But do us another favor - stay there. We don't need you.
UPDATE: Tell Michelle Malkin that no matter what we aren't building internment camps and we're not going to shoot mexicans. Unfortunately anything short of that won't satisfy her. Too bad - on this issue she is too radical for any calm and rational solutions. This is exactly the type of diatribes we don't need. Sorry for MM fans, but she is really getting on my nerves - like a nagging spouse - or worse.
By the way, you want to see the real problem the Republican Party? Gremlins. Don't feed them after midnight. Sheesh what a bunch of crisis queens!
Look, the President delivered a plan. At least a plan. Now at least we've got something to talk about. But get over it, we are not going to intern or rip millions of people out of the woodwork and ship them back on meat packing cars to countries that aren't - for the most part - going to receive them back anyway.
ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. To be frank, most of this is rooted in the "Us Four and No More" mentality.
No, I'm not going to label it racist, but whenever a Malkin or other "Pack 'em up" defender gets on the horn it's what I hear between the lines. I call it the way I see it and it's got a stink on it that A-Jax won't remove.
Again, the problems we have now didn't happen overnight, and aren't going away overnight. At least we have a start now. Sure it would be stronger and more comprehensive, but in an election year you aren't going to see a whole lot done - and we have already come farther than even the whiners thought.
Let's see where it goes from here.
UPDATE: Contrast reason with sophmoronic giberish. The latter one of the reason I no longer subscribe to the National Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
UPDATE: I agree with AJ here. President Bush has given us a lot to be thankful for and just when he could use the support some of us become indicative of Chronic Malcontent Syndrome, "Why should I suffer in silence when I can still moan, wail and complain?". I think I'm on to something here - a separation of the sheep and the goats.
UPDATE II: An amen to this post from Joe Dartblog, specifically:
"Michelle Malkin tuned in knowing she’d hate everything the president was going to say. Wrong idea—the only person who can bring about consensus on this absolutely fractured-beyond-repair issue is the president. This is the best offer American sovereigntists—which is to say almost everyone, whether they realize it or not—will have for a long time."
I'm sure the Hispanic vote never entered his mind during this time.
Good intentions coupled with unreasonable refusal to weigh actual consequences of proposed actions does not a compassionate or secure result make.
No nation's first order of immigration business is how to make it easier to thwart the law, existing law.
Every signal that the existing law will be forgiven, overlooked, dismissed, bypassed will be confirmation that there will be no intention of actually enforcing "enforcement" measures in the "reforms".
If you will not enforce the current law, now, first, then every potential immigrant will understand they can start coming illegally and then, in time, just present what the current mobs have - we're here, try to remove us. Your "reforms" will in the end stand for nothing, just as have the "reforms" of the 1980s.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm