Please stop now. I've heard some absurd and embarrassing arguments defending this initiative, but this takes the prize. Border protection and immigration control are one of the few legitimate constitutional responsibilities of the federal government.
If you want to defend Bush and this initiative, fine, but please use honest arguments.
As far as others' suggestions on this thread that all who have expressed disapproval of this immigration farce are simply DU disruptors, then I guess DU disruptors have taken over the conservative media as well: National Review, Laura Ingraham and even Rush Limbaugh -- to name but a few -- have now been possessed by the Democratic devil.
FR used to be a place for reasoned discussion of federal, political and constitutional issues, not a dewey-eyed, paranoid fan club organized to defend every action of a man who is above all, a politician, and a damned good one at that.
Let's stay in the reality zone.
Please stop now. I've heard some absurd and embarrassing arguments defending this initiative, but this takes the prize. Border protection and immigration control are one of the few legitimate constitutional responsibilities of the federal government.
But as I clearly and explicitly said, it is a fundamentally philosophical issue and not Constitution relevant. The issue is extremism in conservatism and this is a concept that pursues purity. A pure conservative would not be looking to the government to solve problems. Those who are cannot be pure conservatives. They are, instead, people who look to Big Brother to create a society they prefer.