Posted on 06/02/2007 10:22:51 AM PDT by nj26
President Bushs advocacy of an immigration overhaul and his attacks on critics of the plan are provoking an unusually intense backlash from conservatives who form the bulwark of his remaining support, splintering his base and laying bare divisions within a party whose unity has been the envy of Democrats.
It has pitted some of Mr. Bushs most stalwart Congressional and grass-roots backers against him, sparking a vitriol that has at times exceeded anything seen yet between Mr. Bush and his supporters, who have generally stood with him through the toughest patches of his presidency. Those supporters now view him as pursuing amnesty for foreign law breakers when he should be focusing on border security.
Postings on conservative Web sites this week have gone so far as to call for Mr. Bushs impeachment, and usually friendly radio hosts, commentators and Congressional allies are warning that he stands to lose supporters a potentially damaging development, they say, when he needs all the backing he can get on other vital matters like the war in Iraq.
I think President Bush hurts himself every time he says it is not amnesty, said Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, referring to the bills legalization process for immigrants. We are not all that stupid.
This week, in discussing Mr. Bushs recent comments accusing conservative critics of the immigration legislation of fear-mongering, Rush Limbaugh told listeners: I just wish he hadnt done it because hes not going to lose me on Iraq, and hes not going to lose me on national security. But he might lose some of you.
Such sentiments have reverberated through talk radio, conservative publications like National Review and Fox News. They have also appeared on Web sites including RedState.com and FreeRepublic.com...
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A simple constitutional lesson and reminder for the White House and all of America. As US Citizens, it is our right, and our obligation, afforded to us by the Constitution of the United States, to reform, change, replace, and/or eliminate a government that does not effectively represent and protect the needs and desires of the American people.
Enforce the border, enforce the law, protect America!
“DONT TYPE. CALL THE WHITE HOUSE. CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER. DO NOT FADE AWAY.”
Bump that!
Goodbye, Jeb!
Bump to your post. I like the way you think!
sheesh, hit your softspot huh?
I wish someone would, and it should be marching against the entire government in D.C., not just the president, they are all selling us down the river...we need to march against what they are doing to our country and constitution...and soon.
Out shilling again Mol?
You might not be completely right but, you could be damn close.
Pitted? No. Turned? YES!
I've had enough of George "Sell-out" Bush. If you can find reason to impeach the traitor, go for it!
Nope .. just stating a fact
Did you go to the George Bush School of Malignment? That seems to be the modus operandi now if someone doesn’t agree with you.
Great way to win friends and supporters, by the way.
Reading every post in a thread. Watch for the clue phrase “When I....”, or, look at their name!
Hmmmmm ... Was I trying to win you over to be my friend??
I don't think so
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I don't believe that's a concern...It's a win/win for the globalists...
It will take Divine Intervention to get Hunter, Paul or Tancredo in the top spot to face the Democrats...Anyone else on the ticket (including Thompson) is tied in with the Council on Foreign Relations...
Daddy Bush had to lose his second term so Clinton could strong arm the Democrats on Nafta...Little George came in tied the knot with China to the WTO...
We'll need a Democrat leader to finish opening the borders fully...Beyond that, it's the New World Order...
Bush isn't concerned about the Presidency...He and Jeb have bigger fish to fry...
This has been going on for decades...And there's been people to warn us...Buchanan, Perot, Ron Paul, and many others...
They didn't get traction because 'but the money's so good crowd'...The greedy SOBs from the large corporations to the small businesspeople who love that easy buck from unfair trade with China and cheap labor from Mexico are some of the culprits...
Got news for ya...A lot of you are going down the tube with the rest of us...
I was talking about your hero George Bush.
I have plenty of friends, thanks.
“divisions within a party whose unity has been the envy of
Democrats”.
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I couldn’t get any further than this, one of the funniest lines I have ever read.I don’t think “unity” and “envy” are the correct words here. I think Democrats have been silently appreciative of just how far they’ve been able to nudge the RINOs in their direction; I think Democrats have been privately amazed at how much George Bush is ALREADY the ideal Democrat, while, just for the sake of
partisan role-playing they STILL have to pretend there’s so much about him that has to be challenged and undermined.
It’s the Democrats who have always had the unity: at the moment, they look somewhat fractured, but only because they’ve found new forms of the “Left” and “farther Left”
templates to squeeze themselves into.
BUsh should have run as a New Republican in the same way Clinton ran as a New Democrat eight years earlier.
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