[Siena Dreaming]

The immigration issue is turning into the new litmus test. Used to be abortion.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Where is the guy who posts the "Not this crap again" picture?

[colorado tanker]

On the very day Sandra Day O'Connor is replaced by a pro-life conservative, Phyllis finds something else to b$#%h about. I'm glad I'm not married to her.

[Herakles]

Bush has taken an oath to protect the US against its enemies, foreign and domestic. This oath does not allow him to pick and choose. In my eyes, drugs and gang violence go hand in hand with border security - it's the quiet war the administration doesn't want to talk about.

I have no respect for Bush in this matter. My small community doesn't have any large buildings for terrorist to run planes into but it is awash in drugs, and there is not a month that goes by that a truck load of illegals are stopped by Pennsylvania's finest.

I have a real problem supporting someone who will not support domestic tranquility. As far as I am concerned, this is like stabbing our country in the back, and selling out what good there is left in our communities for political gain.

The old phrase "vote for us or the Democrats will win" has no effect anymore. Sometimes you have to let people with attitudes like that lose to get their attention.

You can do what you want, but my support of the Republicans in congress, and for the President is at an end until they make some changes in their attitudes concerning this immigration ,border security problem.

[AmericanDave]

I support President Bush, and Congratulations on the Alito Victory!

However a reminder of the needs of his conservative base while he is setting his sights on his NEXT VICTORY, is not amis......

[Radix]

"...they vote for the party that promises the social benefits of the welfare state, not for the party that pretends to support fiscal integrity and small government." *

 

That is what will probably ruin the Republicans in the end.

 

Pretending to be responsible.

 

Democrats make no such pretensions, not really.

[Wiseghy]

Oops. I guess she missed that part about that Alito guy.

Americans still expect an activist government, and wars are expensive. The Dems successfully turn every discussion about entitlement cutbacks into a horror show for the poor and aged, painting Republicans as stingy and hard hearted.

We need to attack the entitlement programs that are draining the budget, especially medicare and medicaid. Republicans would do well to focus rational, informed discussion on them, rather than whining and dividing the party, as this woman suggests.

[Petronski]

...Crocker-Pullen compromise...

Sounds kinda pervy to me.

[Leatherneck_MT]

"The tough political tactics used by union bosses and Democratic machine bosses simply don't sit well with conservative Republicans."

This bears repeating because those of us independent enough to not be taken in by politics as usual are justs as liable to hand a politician his arse in public.

Don't Tread on me!

[rrrod]

Sad but true

[connectthedots]

Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court is hardly kicking away his base.

[Ditter]

Bite me Phyllis! I am part of his base and I am pretty happy with him. I would like better border control but other than that I am lovin' GWB.

[swheats]

No time to breathe for this president. Just barely gotten Alito in and he's now involved in another major showdown with immigration.

Appoint men like Tancredo and Hayworth to this task and allow them to come up with the best scenarios on fixing immigration. They definately has the fire in their belly to brng a solution.

[Cboldt]

-bump-

Politics ain't bean bag ;-)
Honest criticism and pressure is nothing for President Bush or the Republican Party to be afraid of. They'll handle the criticism as they see fit, and the chips will fall where they do.

[CharlieOK1]

read later

[loveliberty2]

"That's why the grass roots abandoned the first George Bush when he reneged on his "no new taxes, read my lips" promise."

Phyllis has done some great work, but to invoke this memory at this time, implying approval of Bush's base deserting him now, just after he has won a major battle on crucial Supreme Court justices, is both illtimed and fails to recognize the dreadful result of the base's earlier "abandonment"--eight years of the 2-for-the-price-of-one Clintons.

Does anyone believe that any Democrat on the scene today would be good for American liberty and our posterity?

It's always wise to look for the unintended consequences of ideas.

[Liberty Valance]

Dear Phyllis,

You make some excellent points concerning some of the toughest issues we face today. I did notice that the accomplishments of the current administration are apparently not worth mentioning...especially today.

If only YOU would run for President in '08 ALL these problems would magically disappear. I can't wait for the scenes of mass deportations of millions on the evening news. Come on Phyllis...you can do it!

Kind regards and happy hunting,
Liberty

[citizen]

bttt for later....grrrrrr

[Pelham]

Why are President Bush and Karl Rove so tone deaf on this issue? Some speculate that the Bush administration is in the pocket of big business lobbying interests that want the cheap labor made available by the government's failure to enforce our immigration laws.

When you are a Post-Nationalist, borders are a major inconvenience. So you find a way to make them dissolve. We will all be Citizens of the brave new post-national world that Dubya and Rove have schemed up for our own good. Get ready to sing our new national anthem, Kumbayah.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Reagan spent big, gave amnesty to illegal aliens, and grew the size of the Federal government.

Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II were elected by Republicans, the conservative movement on their own did not elect anyone other than Bill Clinton...twice.