Newt is NOT impressing me at all; he IS blaming Bush for everything. It is Bush’s fault the border guy let in the TB guy....that is what Newt said. He is also saying we are losing the WOT because Bush is not a good implementor.
Newt is shooting himself in the foot, imho. He is eliminating himself as a Presidential candidate before he even announces his plans. He is not giving any real solutions.....just a lot of gibberish, imho.
It appears to me that he is saying what he is saying for the media attention. He has lost my respect completely.
He is making the mistake that others would be well to avoid. We may not like this immigration bill, but that doesn't mean we have turned our backs on the President. He thinks he is in safe territory with the Bush bashing, but I think he's wrong.
Well yes .. didn't you know President is superman and should be every where ???
He wasn't blaming Bush per se. He used it as an example of how the proposed comprehensive immigration bill will be difficult to enforce. The "TB guy's"" name was in the computer yet the folks reponsible for monitoring did not pick it up. Much of comprehensive immigration reform depends on bureaucrats to implement and enforce it.
Isn't Bush responsible for securing our border, especially after 9/11? Why has only 11 miles of single fence been built since the passage of the Secure FenceAct in October 2006, a bill that authorized the construction of 854 miles of double fencing? Where does the buck stop? Whom do we hold accountable for the fact that 500,000 to 1 million people are entering our country illegally each year?
No great loss. He has no chance of ever getting the GOP nomination let alone winning the presidentcy. Newt, like many of the other GOP candidates, has way too much baggage to ever get elected.
Chris Matthews just called Fed Thompson ... The Southern Fried Candidate for the republican party