True, I mean I can understand people disagreeing with Bush but it boggles my mind that people can't see that these are heartfelt views of his.
I believe that. Who cares? He's wrong on amnesty, wrong on the border and AWOL on the subject of employing illegals.
I don't doubt that these are his heartfelt beliefs.
But Presidents take an oath of office to enforce our laws, not their heartfelt beliefs. To do otherwise is to make a king out of the Presidency, to put us under the rule of men instead of the rule of law.
Bush's problem is that he is selling the slogan, "comprehensive reform", while ignoring rational, reasoned analysis of the ill consequences of that bill, because the idea itself "comprehensive reform" fits his good intentions.
You deserve rewards not for your good intentions, but for the reasoned and rational ways in which you chose to turn those intentions into actions, and only for the good, if any that results from those actions. You are not rewarded simply for feeling better (a very liberal thing).
The only thing "comprehensive" about what Bush, McPain, McKennedy et al are selling is how comprehenisvely they are fooling the public in the 400 amendments of the bill.
Try starting here:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm