Posted on 05/21/2006 12:58:41 PM PDT by dennisw
Now we know what George Bush really thinks of his immigration-restricting conservative base: They're bunch of dumb, hysterical, soulless racists.
Maybe that's bit overstated, but if so, not by much. At his White House news conference last week, alongside Australia's John Howard, Bush said quite a lot, revealing much about his mind-set. He thinks he can fool his fellow citizens, enough of them at least, by using a few focus-grouped buzzwords. As for those recalcitrant types who aren't gulled -- well, he figures he can cow them into submission with loaded smear words. Bush answered that he wanted a "comprehensive bill." That's a great-sounding word, "comprehensive" -- the implication being that the whole plan is really thought through. But in this instance, "comprehensive" is a con.
"Comprehensive" is code for a bill that makes pro-immigration constituencies happy -- that is, big business, the Democrats, Hispanic reconquistadors and the Mexican government. The key to making the pro-imms happy, of course, is legislation that negates itself. Build a big wall? Fine, so long as you then shoot it full of holes. Bush will agree to tighten up the border, but only if it's linked to a guest-worker program that loosens things up everywhere else. That's what "comprehensive" means -- and the alternative spelling, by the way, is S-H-E-L-LG-A-M-E.
Further demonstrating his hope that the American people are a bunch of dopes who will fall for the cheapest of rhetorical tricks, Bush then set up a straw man: "You know, there are some in our country who say, 'Let's just deport everybody.' " There might be some who say that, but the spearhead of the secure-the-homeland movement, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is long on record as favoring an "attrition" strategy against those who are here illegally, mostly by toughening up on employers.
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I've got the popcorn!
Note how happily the MSM is publishing these types of articles, they understand that the best chance of Dems is to divide the Republican base and keep them from turning out and voting for Republican candidates.
Yeah, it could never be about reporting what is actually going on.
THIS is what really going on: the Dems are doing everything to get into power, and then you can cry and it won't do any good. The Dems want to unilaterally disarm us in the War on Terror.
Democrats signal oversight of Bush would increase. Probes by Congress may be in the cards
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635768/posts
Michigan Democrat Rep. John Conyers Jr.'s Web site features his call for investigations of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and President Bush's authorization of wiretapping without court warrants.
Conyers says either could justify Bush's impeachment or censure.
It is one of numerous demands by frustrated Democrats, out of power in Congress for several years, for investigations of the Bush administration.
But with the growing prospect that they could regain control of at least the House in the November elections, Democratic leaders are signaling that they intend to increase oversight of the White House if they win a majority — and use their subpoena power to put the administration on the griddle.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California has indicated that high energy prices, faulty intelligence used to justify the Iraq war and the National Security Agency's surveillance program would be investigated.
Now we know what George Bush really thinks of his immigration-restricting conservative base: They're bunch of dumb, hysterical, soulless racists.
Jim Pinkerton is a leftist, who hates Bush and all Republicans. He just wants Democrats to win back Congress.
LOL
from the May 19, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0519/p09s02-cods.html
Bush may be losing his base
Conservatives are openly dissenting from policies of Republican leadership.
By Daniel Schorr
WASHINGTON - The term "base" is not in William Safire's political dictionary, but he tells me it will be included in the next edition. "Base" refers to that solid core of political supporters who will stick with you through electoral thick and thin as long as you are perceived as advancing their principles. Most often, the term is applied to religious conservatives.
Something seems to have gone off the rails between President Bush and his base, judging by a recent Gallup poll that shows his support among conservatives down from a long-standing 80 percent to a current 50 percent.
Religious conservatives have found the administration and Congress falling short on issues such as same-sex marriage, obscenity, and abortion. They have expressed disappointment that the president has not been more active in seeking a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
The issue of the week is immigration. In what he called a compromise proposal in his television speech on Monday night, the president sought to allay the criticism of conservatives by proposing to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops along the Mexican border.
There may be less there than meets the eye. The Guard troops will be mainly in support roles. The arrangement may not last more than a year. And the president, who also has a business base, felt compelled to propose a "guest-worker" (not amnesty, repeat, not amnesty) program.
At the same time, the administration was trying to shift attention to consensus Republican issues such as tax cuts and judicial nominations. But, the dissension within Republican ranks was evident. The $105 billion war-spending bill, passed by the Senate, was called "dead on arrival" by House speaker Dennis Hastert. When Senate majority leader Bill Frist called Gen. Michael Hayden the "ideal man" for CIA Director, Speaker Hastert announced his opposition to having a military man in the job.
Influential conservatives have begun speaking openly of their reservations about the Republican leadership. Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, has said that he might turn critic of the administration unless it does more to deliver on conservative goals.
At this point, the thunder from the right may be in the nature of admonition. But I can recall a time when evangelicals shunned the ballot box. If that were to happen again, it would change the face of American politics.
So once this "comprehensive" bill gets passed, I guess we can expect people from every other country of the world to come here immediately, without "waiting in line" to immigrate legally. If we refuse them, that really will be racist and discriminatory, since we will have shown favoritism to the Mexicans.
This is going to be a huge mess!
Given your post, one would think the Party would be trying to piss on FEWER conservatives, not more.
I saw Orlando...that
was enough for me!
This is a Pinkerton who has nothing to do with security?
I hear him on TV. Predictable.
However, Bush has trashed his own supporters. I am glad I no longer have a Viva Bush sticker on my car. It was stolen and found totaled in Mexico. Of course I have no idea who stole it.
Four car and auto thefts on our street recently. Definition: a former Republican is someone who just had his car stolen or his property trashed.
It's all about choices.
Do you want a president who is going to fight global warming, instead of terrorists, like Al Gore, or Clinton, or do you want someone who puts protecting the lives of the American people as his top priority?
PICK ONE.
Pinkerton just lost his FReeper account.
Well, the best chance for the dems to get their way, elect a congressional and senatorial majority, is to use immigration as an inflammatory wedge issue to divide Republicans.
And I am quite certain that if the dems get their way, general indiscriminate amnesty for all illegal aliens is a given.
So far, nothing any democrat has said on the subject has convinced me to change my straight ticket Republican vote in the foreseeable future.
I am frustrated with President Bush with regard to Border Security.
If President Bush had the will, the Borders would have been secure 5 years ago just like the TSA is securing the airports.
"And I am quite certain that if the dems get their way, general indiscriminate amnesty for all illegal aliens is a given.
So far, nothing any democrat has said on the subject has convinced me to change my straight ticket Republican vote in the foreseeable future."
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Excellent assessment and conclusion.
GW Bush is proving he is far more the Yale/Adnover/Skull and Bones preppy (like father, like son) than West Texas conservative. The Bushes always came around at election time when we're needed; now that he doesn't have to be concerned about another election, I doubt we'll see him hanging around conservatives, that is, until brother Jeb decides its his turn. Hopefully, the base conservatives will have wised up by then; I know I have.
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