I've noticed some of the static here has quieted as people realize that, indeed, the President IS giving us some of what we want. There's more to do of course, but reasonable people can see he has made great progress towards what we want.
Agreed, although I'd rephrase that last sentence from 'great' progress to 'some' progress.
And, we're going to continue to see 'hit' pieces on the border security issue, especially the wall topic. This is not over by a long shot.
My ideal scenario would be where Congress comes to grips with the security issue first. Once a reasonable plan is agreed upon for security, then we can take up the immigration issue. THEN I'd be somewhat more amenable to compromise. Congress is bringing much of this problem on themselves by insisting on tying the two issues together.
"There's more to do of course, but reasonable people can see he has made great progress towards what we want."
No, reasonable people can see that the amnesty provisions will result in an influx of 50 million ill educated quasi slaves who are basically socialists. The smoke and mirrors to appease conservatives can't obfuscate the fact that this is an empire breaker. Hello Tiajuana.
Remember when? Accompanied by the usual hoopla, President Bush approved the National Intelligence Reform Act on December 17, 2004 that included adding 10,000 border patrol agents in the next five years. About 80% of the agents were to be assigned to the southern border. SF Chronicle However, by Monday, February 7, 2005, when the Bush Budget was released, the number of border patrol agents to be hired shrunk to 210. This was explained by the Administration as a reflection of "the lack of money for an army of border guards and the capacity to train them."[SFGate.com is merely republishing an article from Michael Hedges of the Houston Chronicle.]
He's still pushing the damned amnesty/path to citizenship, isn't he. If that happens, none of the rest of his supposed "concessions" matter at all, because as soon as the massive crop of illegals are able to vote, we will have an irreversible shift to total socialism in the USA. The Republican party will disappear and the Democrats will gain permanent control. We will become, in essence, Mexico.
GWB had to be dragged kicking and screaming to PARTIALLY do the right thing, and even that is not assured UNTIL ITS DONE.
If people like me, and others on FR hadn't raised holy hell, Bush would still be twiddling his thumbs inviting our southern borders to be invaded by leftist hoards intent on revolutionizing the US.
Signed:
--a former President Bush devotee who NOW sees him as the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time---
Why not. But you need to acknowledge that without that "static," on a national level, nothing would have been done. No House bill, no Presidential speech, no Senate agreement to build at least some barriers, nada.