[Baladas]

Actually, don't "muster"...not all of them are lame ducks, after all.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

No but they are ducks, and ducks float.

[Pharmboy]

Hey Dubya—we don’t want this country to merge with Mehico—got it? Move there if you love it so much...

[ustanker]

“W” has lost his mind....Courage??..To pass this?

[dirtboy]

President Asks Senators To Muster 'Political Courage' To Pass Stalled Immigration Bill

Easy for him to say, he'll never stand for re-election again and will make millions in future speaking engagements and stints on the Carlyle Group board of directors. All the while having taxpayer-funded SS protection so he never has to deal with the impact of the shamnesty he and his corporate boosters want so badly.

[raybbr]

President George Bush called on Congress to muster the "political courage" to pass an immigration overhaul that has foundered for weeks in the U.S. Senate.

More like "Follow me to political suicide."

[Uri’el-2012]

W needs to muster the courage to do what we hired him to do:

Enforce the laws of these United States and deport these invading criminals.

He seems to be enabling crime and murder of these Illegal Aliens.

W seems to be to the left of IKE.

[Aria]

Has anyone offered a rational excuse for not following existing laws?

[goldstategop]

Jorge W. is challenging his own party to commit political suicide. If its stupid enough to take him up on it, its going to get its well deserved drubbing next year.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“...Bush called on Congress to muster the “political courage”...

Oh,oh. Bush just called Congress a bunch of pendejos (meaning cowards, fools).

Of course, they are pendejos, and crooks too, but George shouldn’t have called them that since he needs their help.

[NYS_Eric]

It’s actually depressing how much I’m beginning to loathe the President and his intransigence on this issue.

[Obie Wan]

When I retire,I’m going to have to count on the Social Security I’ve been paying for ALL my working life. You know the same program these illegals are going to be collecting off of. I wonder if GW is going to be collecting off of it when he retires ???

[mewzilla]

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[freekitty]

No way Bush and Senators. No amnesty period. Build the fence and deport the illegals.

Keep having this nagging feeling that Hill and Bill are involved. Wonder how?

[Artemis Webb]

“Sir,...no, sir. You can go to hell, sir. It’s the best I can do for you, sir.”

Apologies to Jack London

[backhoe]

Bush has already secured his legacy, as the biggest bait and switch job in American political history.

[JasonC]

When Iran's nuclear facilities are smoking ruins, I will listen to this man lecture us about political courage.

[curiosity]

This is a sign of political desperation. IMHO, it only makes him seem even more pathetic and incompetent, and only makes passage of his pet bill less likely.

Thank God there's less than two years left of this nightmare of a presidency, though even that seems too much to bear.

[rawhide]

Bush and other supporters keep harping on the enforcement parts of this bill. What concerns me more than anything is the enormous cost, to the American taxpayer that is associated with this bill, with all the benefits, i.e. welfare; Medicaid; Medicare, social security that would have to be paid out to these illegals.

Two reasons this bother me. One, the taxpayers are going to have to pay more in taxes to provide benefits, and two, the amount of benefits, especially the payout of social security for those who have contributed all their lives, when they become retirement eligible, will be less.

We have been hearing all these warnings for years from people like Bush, that the Social Security system has to be changed because it is going broke. How does adding all these people help shore up that system?

And another thing, after these people become legal residents, in 3 years these people can become US citizens. There are no restrictions on them bringing their relatives here to live as legal immigrants after that happens. Who is going to pay for them and the benefits they demand?

I really think Bush has lost his mind on this issue?

[Psycho_Bunny]

This clown is starting to make me miss President Clinton.

[Sunsong]

My prediction is that President Bush will pay a price for screwing the base like this - in Sept.

Come Sept - the funding for Iraq will be reconsidered and the President will need A LOT of support from the base for that. Some will support him because they support the war. But a big chunk of the base will be gone forever for this President - as he, essentially, spits in their face on immigration.