Actually, they've been friends for quite a while.
Education Bill
First 100 days in White House 
Posted on 06/01/2007 1:38:16 PM PDT by freedomdefender
President Bush had had enough. His last chance at another legacy legislative achievement, immigration reform, was in peril, and from his own people, conservative Republicans. He wasn't going to take it any more. At a training school for border agents, the president ripped into his own people for opposing his bill. Bush did so indirectly, so a guided tour through the speech may be in order.
The opponents, he said, "haven't read the bill," a polite way of saying their ignorant.
They are opposing it with "empty political rhetoric." They're vacuous, too.
They worry the bill "would make somebody else look good." They're selfish.
They call it an amnesty bill. "That's empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our fellow citizens." And they lie.
They "need the courage to go back to their districts" and fully explain the bill and then they need "the courage necessary" to enact it. They're more than likely cowards as well.
OK, vote against it then "if you don't want to do what's right for America." They want al Qaeda to win.
He accused opponents of immigration reform of using distortion and scare tactics "to frighten our citizens." That's exactly what the Democrats accused Bush of doing in 2004 and 2006 but, hey, it worked for him then and it might work for him now.
Just as the campaign used to do, after Bush accused his opponents of being unpatriotic and un-American, a senior official approached reporters to say, "In no way was he questioning anyone's patriotism or desire to do what's right."
To paraphrase an old expression, who are you going to believe? Me or your lying ears? After all, it's not President Bush's fault if the opponents of this measure are ignorant, selfish and dishonest, even if they are members of his own party and were once his most fervent supporters.
You can't blame Bush for wondering about his choice of friends. Take some of the landmarks of his presidency.
The Republicans never got around to making his tax cuts permanent when they had control of Congress and now the Democrats aren't going to.
The Republicans are wavering on the Iraq war and 11 of them came down to the White House to tell him so. "Cut and run" is beginning to sound like a sensible strategy, maybe, rather than something to pound the Democrats with.
The No Child Left Behind Act is up for renewal and suddenly the president's party is sounding like Republicans of old, grumbling about the federalization of a state responsibility and saddling the states with costly and cumbersome mandates.
So who is on the president's side? On immigration, it's that arch liberal that GOP conservatives love to hate, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
Kennedy sprang to the president's defense on immigration - "the president is right" - and spoke out against "bumper sticker slogans that aim to divide us further."
There you have it, fellow Americans, George Bush and Ted Kennedy, uniters not dividers.
In an especially unkind cut from the president's own side, Newt Gingrich, the architect of the "Republican Revolution" before that became a term of derision, said the Republican Party was in collapse because Bush political adviser Karl Rove, and, by extension, the president himself, had run a "maniacally dumb" campaign in 2006.
Gingrich said this in an interview with The New Yorker, not generally thought of as a Republican house organ, in which he also suggested that to win the White House the Republican candidate will have to run against Bush.
Thus, the most interesting contest of the campaign may be President Bush versus his fellow Republicans. Don't worry, Mr. President. Ted will always be there for you.
Is that empty rhetoric for the Executive Branch to hear?
Gee. Sorry I didn't realize I was your serf.
My DEMOCRAT Senator (Dorgan) opposes this mess of a bill.
That’s a HINT Mr. Bush, that Red State Democrats aren’t even going to get on this political bandwagon to hell.
Vote Constitution Party; only by letting the GOP know they have moved too far away from basic conservative thought will we be able to bring them back.
Yes, it will mean four years of a Democrat administration; we got through Carter, we can get through this.
I for one will be very happy to see Bush leave office, even if we defeat this bill I am sick of him.
The opponents, he said, "haven't read the
secret bill, written by La Raza"
a polite way of saying their (sic)ignorant.
There, fixed it.
I don't know if the author should toss the word ignorant around quite so easily.
Americans have never needed foreigners to solve our problems. Whatever problems we have, we can solve them without the help of twenty more million illegal immigrants this bill will supply.
Later read...
Geeze Louise George! Everything for illegals and nothing but more and more misery for Americans.
Empty political rhetoric? No, it’s called reality, Pal.
Bush ain’t really changed. After all, he started his presidency by doubling the size of the Dept of Education. What’s changed is that conservatives have stopped fooling themselves and inventing reasons to make it acceptable for Bush to act like a liberal.
lol, that bugged me too!
That's good news, but how about Comrade Conrad who just coasted to easy re-election?
Actually, they've been friends for quite a while.
Education Bill
First 100 days in White House
Two reckless drunk fratboys from elite wealthy families have a lot in common. The public record indicates the reckless drunk Kennedy took the life of a political groupie. The reckless drunk Bush was more fortunate, he only got a DUI even though the woman he had aboard was his sister. You have to like Kennedy better than Bush, Kennedy understands who his friends are and who his enemies are. The dolt Bush is clueless. When Kennedy joins Bush to screw the American people, Kennedy is taking care of his supporters, while Bush is not only screwing his friends and supporters, he spits on them for good measure. I pray that no member of either NWO family will ever darken the ballot in which I am eligible to vote.
For a detailed reply to President Bush's first foray into the question of Immigration "Reform," a year ago:
Answer To George W. Bush on Immigration.
Like him or not, Gingrich has it absolutely right, as to the key to a Republican victory in 2008.
William Flax
He feels like I feel. I'm sick and tired of taking it anymore and I've contributed to both of his political campaigns.
Why we're stuck with the lesser of two evils each presidential election time is just ridiculous!
In my lifetime I've had one very good president and he was a movie actor. Perhaps we need another one.
I'd rather have Tom Tancredo at this point, but the MSM have already began comparing him to Hitler.
Call your office Mr. President, your nation truly needs you. If you're worried about your legacy you might just as well forget it. You'll go down in history above Clinton and Peanut, but far beneath Ronald Wilson Reagan!
The very thought makes me deathly ill and, if it happens, our nation will get even sicker than it is now.
I know that el presidente invited the Chappaquiddick Long Distance Swimmer on various occasions to watch first-run movies. I wonder if they watched Breakback Mountain in the White House?
Their cooperation on this miserable mess will break the back of this nation!
If President Bush had been as forceful, steady and frequent of a proponent for his ME policies as he is for this POS immigration bill, we would all be better off today
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