[Cultural Jihad]

But that's the thing. Only liberal newspapers and apoplectic jingoists are claiming that the motivations of President Bush are to pander to voters rather than proposing what is in the best interests of the nation.

[FITZ]

No --- I've seen people on here --- at least I think they're not liberals explain that Bush must work on the hispanic vote --- he's got to gain more of it. What I don't get --- that vote once was strongly Republican and now it isn't. The 80's amnesty did nothing to make it more Republican.

[FITZ]

I'll just say this though --- there is a side of me that thinks this might be a political move by Bush --- maybe even a smart one. It's going to fall onto Congress to put into place or not --- I'm not sure what that accomplishes for Bush --- but maybe there is something.

The other thing --- this would be a way to really go after those illegals who try to bypass his blue card --- hunt them down --- but I'm not sure how I'd like to see them hunted down. Leave out door to door searches, road blocks and pulling people off their tractors to check if they got a blue card ---- we don't need that.

[FITZ]

I don't think this is in the best interests of our nation. Unless Bush has a plan in place for who besides the taxpayers will pay for the health care and for the education of the children the guest workers bring over. Do background checks cover things like HIV and hepatitis and TB?

I think that Republicans might believe Bush cannot win --- and he desperately needs the votes he might gain from this --- even if Congress doesn't pass this, the illegals will turn out and vote for Bush anyhow. They know this will cost him some votes from American citizens but figure there could be enough of a gain from the Mexican citizens' votes to outweigh the losses.