Posted on 01/12/2009 1:57:34 AM PST by VU4G10
WASHINGTON – Down to single digits in his days left in office, President George W. Bush is warning the Republican Party not to become "anti-immigrant" as it regroups from defeat and retools its leadership. "It's very important for our party not to narrow its focus, not to become so inward looking that we drive people away from a philosophy that is compassionate and decent," . .
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He should just shut up and go away. Hopefully before he allows more damage to be done to the future possibility that most of the GOP will once again be seen as supporting restoration of the former Constitutional Republic.
i have some time to re-think. i know that George W. Bush is a good man, but on this issue i can NOT understand his lack of caring and compassion.
from what i’ve heard from police, border agents, and military people, there is a thought that it’s better to let yourself be shot, attacked, than to shoot first (with reason) and be second guessed and attacked by the likes of murtha.
ping
As repulsive as she looks.
You know what kills me? Everyone on this thread is acting like Bush’s pro-illegal stance is a big surprise.
Hey, y’all ... he was pro-Hispanic to the point of being tacitly pro-illegal as Texas governor, and NONE of his presidential campaign rhetoric had any other slant.
Just goodbye, George.
I disagree heartily with your stand on immigration. but it is not because I am anti-immigrant. Rather, it is because you are for open borders and allowing people to come into our nation, in violation of our laws, and then call it good for political expediency, or for a misguided commitment to some form of what you call, "compassion".
I am all for legal immigration, President Bush. I am all for immigrants who immigrate and do so legally.
An illegal alien is NOT an immigrant. An illegal alien is just that, illegal, a law breaker and criminal.
If we fail to enforce our own laws at our own bordewrs...then we have no borders. And if we have no borders, then we are not a soveriegn nation and will lose our cherished way of life, our culture, and ultimately our freedom and our lives.
I am against< all of those things and see clearly how misguided policies, like your own, will lead us there.
I believe you will be judged well by history for bringing a chance for liberty...and a very good chance at that...to 40 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for establishing beacons of hope in an area of the world where there has been very little hope for millinia.
I believe you will be judged well by history on your keeping our nation safe from animal Islamic jihadists who want to come here and kill us all outright.
But I believe you are dead wrong, and will be judged harshly by American history for this entire notion of openb borders and not enforcing our laws strictly at the border and laying the border open to millions who are coming here and incrementally destroyoing the very fabric of our nation.
Immigrants who want to come here and beomce Americans legally and be a part of our society and the laws and traditions that have made it what it is are more than weclome. Poeple who want to violate our laws to come here and take advantage of our society without committing to it in the legally proscribed manner are not.
Plain and simple.
America,choose your funeral director.Either way, we’re sinking into a swamp of cultural and political suicide.
Note the sarcasm in my tagline. I used it a few places to make a point and not a single Bush supporter caught its irony nor even challenged it.
It is a ludicrous situation to continue to support that guy.
I cannot think of a nation anywhere on this planet that would have experienced the entrance of illegal foreigners on its soil, followed by something like over 4,000 murders or accidental deaths of very own citizens at the hands of these illegal entrants, and then the leader of that country that allowed such a swarm of lawlessness would be THANKED openly and with a straight face for "keeping us safe".(sic)
It is the most ludicrous think I can think of.
A Japanese prime minister staying in office after 8 years when North Koreans killed 4,000 Japanese from Kyushu to Hokkaido. The President of Italy keeping his seat after 8 years in which 4000 Italians were killed by itinerant Albanians.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE (BUSH WORSHIPPERS).
Here are the questions they cannot answer. They REFUSE when challenged:
a) 4,000 or more Americans died since 2001 when he took office, with a continued open border situation and lack of massive deportations, with multiple efforts to legalize swarms in one fell swoop, thousands of criminals included. Were these deaths of these Americans no longer with us but now six feet under or scattered to the winds, with grieving families left behind, President Bush's fault?
(if yes, his fault, then do you still support him as president?)
(if no, not his fault, then whose fault is it and why is it not his fault?)
Or do you do like most and just ignore the deaths completely because it is an uncomfortable topic and tarnishes your hero?
He still doesn’t get it...I will never understand how or why he continues to ignore the “illegal” part of the immigration issue.
What a coincidence. I was screaming at my TV during his interview with Brit Hume. Maybe we screamed in unison with a few million other people. We are really screwed, amigo. He let it go so far there is no turning back. Certainly, the amnesty will be passed in the new regime, so I don’t know why he chooses this insulting way to say “Adios” to us closed-minded, hard-hearted, immigrant-bashing loyal conservatives who voted him in to office.
I give VP Cheney much of the credit for national security and WOT on the past 8-year watch.
Rabs, I understand where you are coming from.
Our votes for Bush were the correct votes, at the time, because the alternative WAS worse.
At best, we bought four more years for America. We did not squander that time—the GOP did, and this President did.
History will show that to be the case.
President Bush actually defended himself this morning at his final press conference. His unwillingness to do so for the past 8 years set the die to be cast against him, his Administration and the GOP—and by extension, conservatism.
When I say the following to you I am also saying it to myself: we must engage and fight Obama, the Marxist Democrats, and the Left. We owe it to ourselves and our posterity, as well as to those who have given their lives to defend America.
We will need the boldness of those who stood at Lexington and Concord, and the boldness of John Hancock who signed the Declaration of Independence in huge letters so King George III would not need his spectacles to read his signature.
Let us learn the lessons of betrayal that Bush and the GOP taught us, and fight the Dems, the RINOS, and the Marxists who want to ruin the country we were bequeathed. It’s our country, too.
“So remember, boys and girls, the business wing of the GOP is in business for themselves, and their loyalty only goes one way.”
Worth repeating.
Well said.
Compassionate and decent means that we are a nation of laws and that we adhere to those laws.
It doesn't mean that we turn our backs and tacitly encourage illegals coming into our nation; so we can pay less for lettuce or drywall installation.
Mr Bush you have are out of touch on this issue. Americans from the left, middle, and right want our laws enforced.
“Hey, y’all ... he was pro-Hispanic to the point of being tacitly pro-illegal as Texas governor, and NONE of his presidential campaign rhetoric had any other slant.”
That’s exactly right. He was saying “Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande” when he was campaigning. But people may not have known what to make of that slogan or they may not have even heard it. I had Texan relatives who told me how Bush had behaved as Governor, so I knew what he was up to.
I've come to the partial, tentative conclusion that powerful forces, possibly hidden, possibly New England Yankeedom working through his parents and his schooling, have worked on Bush in ways antagonistic (and frankly, historically hostile) to his Texanness.
Culturally and attitudinally, Bush 43 comes across as authentically Texan; but he keeps doing things that would fit better with e.g. John Quincy Adams's intestine, implacable hostility toward Texas and Texans (Adams practically single-handedly kept Texas out of the Union for more than ten years, and he opposed every effort by John Calhoun and other friends of Texas to provide cash and loans to the land-poor Texas economy; something he would certainly not have done if the petitioners for development largesse had been members of the New England Millocracy).
As far as I can tell, Bush's highest and most unshakable priority has been subserving the financial interests of Wall Street and its Park Avenue clientele. Tax cuts in the face of everything, driving the budget from surplus to deep deficit (and that was his priority before 9/11), even sacrificing the military budget (again, before 9/11 forced his hand) to bigger, better, and more permanent tax cuts in spite of his 2000 campaign promises have represented a constant preference in the agenda of the Bush Administration.
He has also, as someone from N.C. pointed out bitterly, helped the Government to subsidize textile manufacturers in offshoring their formerly extensive plant in the Carolinas and Georgia. Offshoring generally and outsourcing, effectively decontrolled immigration, breaking white-collar and blue-collar wages alike, has been a constant theme enthusiastically supported and tax-subsidized by the Bush Administration and Congress.
I've suspected for some time that someone, some amoral, infinitely selfish and self-privileging actor, has achieved some sort of intellectual or moral ascendancy over Bush 43 and is driving his administration like a stolen car.
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