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President Bush’s speech last night contained no surprises for me. It was pretty well delivered; The right tone; It SOUNDED sincere and reasonable… But in the final analysis it was the wrong words and the wrong ideas for the long term survival and soverignty of the United States.

I kind of feel sorry for the President even though I believe he is 99% wrong on this particular issue.

It is obviously wearing on him even more than the other significant issues of his Presidency…. Perhaps because he knows he is wrong and he realizes he is not only "stabbing his 'base' in the back" but also a high percentage of the ‘loyal opposition’ on the Illegal Alien Invasion problem.

President Bush IS supporting amnesty, (just like we expected), but without the courage to call it amnesty. A small cash payment and go ‘to the back of the line for citizenship'’….. But these people are expert at ‘taking cuts’ in the line, so I expect those that find some advantage to getting citizenship (Medicare, Social Security etc.) Therefore, we can expect to see them, in the near future, in the FRONT of the line, WITH 20 - 30 million of THEIR EXTENDED FAMILES, who are still currently residing in their countries of origin.

The current plans to send the National Guard to the border are a double insult; They are an insult to the conservatives demanding action (but getting only a pretense of action). And they are an insult to the National Guard members and their families… President Bush is planning on deploying them to run errands and do maintainence tasks for Border Patrol EXECUTIVES and do construction work that is more in the venue of the Army Corps Of Engineers or private contractors….

(Speaking of that, I wonder if they are going to have to do environmental impact statements, archaeological surveys and all the other crud that are normally required by the government and the lawyers to build their little bits of actual, physical fence and the larger, pretend bits of ‘virtual, high tech fence’.)

{As a guy who spent a good part of his early career getting into places that he wasn’t supposed to go [in the service of Uncle Sam] and later got paid big bucks by government and private industry for PREVENTING other people from getting into places out in the middle of nowhere that they weren’t supposed to go; I can tell you with some degree of experience and authority that a ‘virtual fence’ is a ludicrous idea unless you have real people with real powers of enforcement within five minutes response time}.

I was kind of hoping that President Bush had ’seen the light’ because I still support him on 60% of his endeavors… But on this subject, he lived up to my expectations again… This time as an expected disappointment.

A small cash payment and go ‘to the back of the line for citizenship'’…..

What a joke. They can't enforce the laws on the books. Which agency is going to investigate the time the illegal has been here and calculate the amount owed to the country? Do they also get charged for the extra 'perks' such as welfare and medical benefits?

It sounds like total BS and realistically the government is not going to make a serious effort to enforce this action. Pablum.