Posted on 06/01/2007 5:41:16 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
However, now I do not feel alone. Peggy Noonan has a new column up in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal. She has clearly said what has been getting me down. I think I knew what was up, but couldn't put a finger on it. I knew it centered around the immigration debate, and the way our congressional leaders are behaving. That sentiment especially includes Mr. Bush too, but when I read this column, I felt like Charlie Brown yelling at Lucy at her Psychology booth when he yells, "That's it!" when trying to identify why he can't get into the Christmas spirit.
Try this clip on for size :
The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.
For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.
But on immigration it has changed from "Too bad" to "You're bad."
The president has taken to suggesting that opponents of his immigration bill are unpatriotic--they "don't want to do what's right for America." His ally Sen. Lindsey Graham has said,
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
If it continues to become worse, and it will, then “76!”
...So that is what you want. Impeach the President in times of war and give the terrorists their ultimate victory and make the democrats so very happy. Yep, you are a real Patriot (sarcasm beyond belief)....
President Bush has declared war on the Rule of Law in America and on the Constitution. He should not win that war.
The illegal immigrants who are here are going to stay here, you can jump and scream and yell but no one is going to remove them directly or indirectly, just get it in your head. Give them working visa to be renewed every 3 years with a $ 1,000 fee with no way to citizenship as long as they work here on this working visa and no access to welfare. That is it, that is the only solution. President Bush is very smart and he realized that long time, he campaigned on it in 2 Presidential elections, and won the White House twice.
Bush is NOT a Conservative...he is not even a real Republican!!!
WOW! Thats Full Circle,LOL!
It's long been a puzzle to me why this administration hasn't groomed a VP to run for the presidency in '08.
What where your active duty dates and branch of service??
The Old law is better than a disastrous new law. It is much more difficult to repeal a law than it is to block it. In 2008 there will be a different President, he might even decide to enforce our immigration laws unless this pile of garbage is passed which make everyone and their cousin legal (except those waiting patiently for legal visas) Impose a tax and see how hard it is to get it repealed after the govt tastes those dollars at the trough..try repealing amnesty and we may have a war.
“Was Reagan a traitor for signing the 1986 amnesty bill?”
No, it was a good intentioned mistake.
However as a high IQ guy once said:
“Insanity is making the same mistake expecting different results” (Einstein)
I saw the same behavior in the Clinton administration by his sycophants--despite the evidence, deny and personally attack any accusers...
And what did he expect after his "Let then eat Masa" speech
And what did he expect after his "Let them eat Masa" speech
Benedict Arnold was a great General before he turned into a traitor. Please do not bring the military service issue here it is absolutely meaningless in this debate. I stand by my earlier comment.
Uh please reread my post and if you have difficulty understanding it ask me before you pound the keyboard again. By the way are you the same person who said Bush didn’t call the minutemen “vigilantes”?
By the way, I don’t like your assuming I’m a Bush hater. The RNC has received almost as much money from me as the NRA has and my Bush-Cheney 2004 coffee mug still sits on my desk at home. I don’t “hate” the man, but I am certainly disappointed and I am incensed at his tarring me by proxy because I don’t think having 12-20 million illegals getting a defacto amnesty is a good idea for my country.
This issue is about the republic, not only the base of the party.
BTTT
How about ten or twenty million points of disdain, Mr. President?
And President Bush has great and realistic intentions in this illegal immigration bill and does not live in a fantasy world like you people where you see millions of illegal immigrants deported directly or indirectly.
Well, I'd have to agree that some of the rhetoric here -- including mine -- is harsher than anything Bush has said.
But Bush DID say that, by opposing this bill, I don't want to do what's right for America. HIS words, not mine. And whether he is questioning my patriotism or not, that is insulting, more insulting to me than Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech.
And if he is not questioning my patriotism, then why doesn't he just say so? He's always been very careful -- too careful, IMO -- to say he is not questioning the patriotism of Murtha, Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy....
And one more thing we have not touched on. He also said, in that same speech, that by pointing out certain elements of the bill which we find fault with, we are using "scare tactics." So we who disagree with him are fear mongers, as well.
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