Sorry.. I am taking back the Reagan comment. I know saying anything about Reagan earns you quick doghouse status.
However, I would like to see the amnesty bill Bush signed. I haven’t had the oppoetunity to read it and before I condemn the President for letting in 38 million(?) illegals I would like to see what he signed.
Let me add the liberal wing of the Republican party, who see the issue as a way to marginalize conservatives and destroy the Party of Reagan.
Reagan made mistakes. People just don't remember them. Ed Meese freely admits now that the 86 Amnesty was a mistake, because he didn't understand how chain immigration ("family reunification") would result in the newly legitimized illegals bringing in 3 times as many of themselves and how it ended up encouraging not less but more illegal immigration -- in the expectation of another amnesty.
So Southern California is mainly populated now by the amnestied illegals, their families, and their friends who are illegals currently.
I don't think RR or Meese saw that coming.
As for Bush signing an amnesty, he hasn't been able to do that because of our relentless opposition. Frying the Senate's phone system last May was the final message to those idiots: don't do it unless you want to be permanently dis-elected. But they seem not to have completely internalized that message and are headed back the wrong direction. Becoming the minority party by pissing off your base is not exactly the mark of a sane group of people. But, that's what they're doing.
And that won't stop Mr Bush from trying. I fully expect him to pull some blanket pardon gig before he leaves office, even if he can't get a bill out of the Congress.
And he won't care what it does to the Republican Party. He's a Bush, not a Republican. That's who he works for. The Family, and no one else. Do a Google image search on George P. Bush to see what I mean.