[Soul Seeker]

Good.

We need every voice out there shoving back...hard...on this in case they get any suicidal thoughts of slipping this through the "shadows" of the night lesgislative votes.

Oh, and for those hypeventialating that you haven't managed to silence our voices on this? Invest in a paper bag. If we succeed not only will America benefit, but so with the Republicans and this President won't have this disaster pegged to his legacy. What you would have us accept would result in just what you fear, loss of Republican power and a disastrous legacy for him.

Just remember this. You take joy in claiming "Alito and Roberts" as accomplishments while knocking down O'Connor and Kennedy. But Bush might well have had his "kennedy and O'Connor" if we hadn't denied Miers. I know, some of you still think she'd have been "super" though nothing in her record or even questionaire she was given a do-over for indicate that to be so.

same thing here. Reagan signing amnesty was a mistake, we're not going to make a worse one now voluntarily. Though at least he enforced the laws when it was passed, This President has a reluntance to enforce the ones already on the books.

[kellynla]

"same thing here. Reagan signing amnesty was a mistake, we're not going to make a worse one now voluntarily. Though at least he enforced the laws when it was passed, This President has a reluctance to enforce the ones already on the books."

Michael Reagan was interviewed on Fox News the other day and he reminded the interviewer that the legislation his father signed included "sealing the border" which NEVER HAPPENED!"

"fool me once, shame on you...

well "we won't get fooled again!"
SEAL THE BORDER & DEPORT THE ILLEGALS!

[nathanbedford]

The Miers fiasco was Bush's jump the shark moment.

In the event, the uproar saved him from himself and spared us perhaps a generation of liberalism by judicial fiat and left Bush free to commit the next public relations fiasco, Katrina. But from this, no one could save him.

The immigration mess has much in common with the two preceeding fiascos: It was easilly avoided. Bush had merely to quietly enforce the law and the issue would have leached back into Mexico. But he would not.

He could have avoided the Katrina rap by eschewing cronyism in appointments to FEMA, but he was tone deaf. He could have anticipated the seriousness of such a calamity in the new age of terrorism merely by reflecting on the criticism his father receceived when he failed to get out in front during Andrew. But he learned nothing.

Bush had a stable full of thoroughbreds, as Roberts and Alito illustrate, but he dabbled in cronyism again in the Miers nomination.

What's next?