This image says it all.
I useta woulda fist-fought anyone who said something bad about him, but since he could obviously care less about me and the rest of you now.... $%^& him.
I strenously disagree with him on immigration, but his position on that issue has been clear to me since 2000. I admit he hasn't made it a priority, at least until he didn't face reelection.
Man, did you nail THAT!
Ditto.
This image says it all.
The damage was actually done for the past 30 years. Bush made the same mistake by not enforcing current immigration laws and built the fence with expanded Border Patrol which would have worked. It's interesting how the immigration bill was conceived and rammed through the Senate and House by the RATS. If Bush wakes up and vetoes this next time, will that change any minds. I doubt it. The hatred against Bush is out of control. Wait until 2008 when the RATS get the Presidency.
He see's the current system as broken...and believes it needs to be addressed - Not simply pushed down the road further....where other POTUS won't take on the issue because of fear....(just like Soc Sec reform). Hell even the great Ronald Reagan turned tail / flip flopped and moved away from private accounts only to increase FICA taxes to boot (thus burdening another complete generation to the biggest wealth stealing scheme the world knows...Soc Sec).
I don't agree with President GWB on the issue of immigration but he is still a da*m fine man, one hell of a CinC (who is literally dragging the world in to understanding the need to face our enemies in this WOT....at a tremendous cost to himself).
In a thriving Limited Republic our party has to allow room for disagreement on issues. The notion that we all must be cookie-cutouts is dangerous and intellectually silly.
GWB is a leader....They are few and far between in reality...and not usually liked all that well all the time....because they are willing to make decisions based on what they think is best.....come hell or high-water.
I respect it.
Spare me the SELF-righteous indignation . . . So, you want a genuine conservative? Vis a vis EVERY objective measure (including those associated with immigration), President George W Bush is MORE conservative than President Ronald Reagan — and that’s a FACT!
I think we have to step back and remember that Bush has control of the War reigns independant of the legislature. He has stayed the course, stared down funding threats from Congress and done the right thing in Iraq and abroad when it comes to the war. He deserves our respect and thanks for that.
But everyone has different opinions on the immigration bill. I frankly think it’s selling out our birth right and the first step the reclamation of Aztlan or whatever La Raza calls it. But I think President Bush just thinks this is a good idea, that it will solve some problems. He’s wrong on that. And, we the people, have the ability to influence or prevent that mistake by doing exactly what we’re doing.
If Bush enacted this as a policy or with some Executive Order, then I can see why everyone jumps off the good ship Bush, but he took what he thought was a good idea to Congress. If they don’t listen to us and pass this turd, then it’s on them EVERY BIT as much as it is on Bush. I don’t hate Bush for bringing it up - he’s from Texas, he’s buddies with Mexico’s President, etc. We knew going in that Bush was friendly to Mexican immigrants - illegal or otherwise.
It’s up to us to say this is bad legislation that the country doesn’t want and through our representatives, we want this bill killed and replaced with a simple border enforcement first measure. So trash Bush for this, but he’s doing what we all could have seen coming. Let’s put this one on the congressmen if it gets enacted. They are the ones in control of legislation. Period.
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Bush always has been WAY too easygoing with Democrats on the overwhelming majority of issues. His “compromises” allow them to turn his relatively few bad ideas into gargantuan terrible monstrosities and multi-trillion-dollar boondoggles that threaten to undermine the federal government generations hence. That said, I now think that Bush persistently pushes the present immigration monstrosity as part of a simple Rovian plot to curry favor with the Democrats, to deflect attention from his actions in other areas, and to sabotage the reelection prospects of Democratic Distinguished Members of Congress and by extension their Presidential campaigns.
Think about the Republican ads during the general election cycle, “Barack Hussein Obama voted against a fence to stop transnational gangsters from invading our country to murder our citizens...he even voted to give amnesty to illegal-alien sex predators who molested our children...and still worse he voted to give illegal-alien terrorists free rein to live in America indefinitely. Put an end to this madness...vote Republican.” How will these Senators defend their votes on the campaign trail? Better still, most viable Republicans—Giuliani, Romney, T. Thompson, Gilmore, and Huckabee—don’t have to defend such votes because they never served in Congress.
I useta woulda fist-fought anyone who said something bad about him, but since he could obviously care less about me and the rest of you now.... $%^& him.
What he said.
Let’s follow the theme of the article here. George W Bush is, in fact, doing what is right in regards to immigration. The fact is that 12 million people are not going “home.” Their home is here in the America. We are not going to become monsters and throw them out. What we are trying to negotiate for is the terms of their life in America, as we go forward. Also, we are not going to stop the status quo of illegality until our Congress can deal with a problem which has gone on for far too long. If you are in favor of letting the problem get worse, then just kill the damn bill and let things continue as they are. George Bush is leading and he trying to do what is right for America.
“He WAS my hero.”
Same here - he “was” my hero. Not only is he out of sync with me concerning the immigration bill and amnesty, his fiscal policy (aka spending policy) has been much to liberal to suit me. As far as his war on terror goes, he should have done a better job of candidly informing the American people that we are in it for the long haul and probably for more than one generation - he should have hammered this into American skulls for sure.
I agree with you. He is protecting us over there, while selling the entire country down the river over here.
The negatives far outweigh the positives, in my opinion.
>He WAS my hero. The damage that will be done to this country by this BS amnesty will outweigh ALL the modest good he has done in his entire presidency.
I useta woulda fist-fought anyone who said something bad about him, but since he could obviously care less about me and the rest of you now.... $%^& him.<
Can I ask you a couple of questions? How old are you? Male or female? Do you think you will ever have another hero before he has accomplished something worthy of the title?
I asked the last question because, for the life of me I cannot figure out what Bush had ever done that made him worthy of the title in your view.
“He WAS my hero. The damage that will be done to this country by this BS amnesty will outweigh ALL the modest good he has done in his entire presidency”
I think you summed it up for us rather nicely.