Agreed, the emotions are taking over with many here.
Sad to see...........
I'm signing on.
What really is sad is that even simple objections are getting people pasted with labels like "rabid", "radical", "emotional", etc.
We got torqued when the Clintons snubbed the Law and skated; we got torqued when Kennedy snubbed the Law and skated; we got torqued with Al Gore's bladerdash about "no controlling legal authority"; but NOW, when some actually express their desire that existing law be enforced, and that violators get the due punishment prescribed under the Law, now, instead of, "Amen" suddenly people who say such things make us "sad".
What's so bloody wrong with simply enforcing the Law in each and every case where it comes to light that it has been violated? Let Law enforcement AT ALL LEVELS do that as part of their sworn duty to uphold the Law.
My gut-level is that had Bush come out tonight and just said that THAT would happen immediately, he wouldn't have had to do or say ANYTHING else.
Just come out and say, point-blank, "We're a Nation of Laws and we are going to begin enforcing them 100% at all levels beginning NOW. Period."
No wall. No amnesty. No coddling of employers. No big agenda that needs Congressional approval. No new spending. No new programs. Just an Executive Branch affirmation of the Rule of Law and the simple expression of a clear doctrine of enforcement.
That would have been plenty; it would have been more than almost everyone expected, and it would have been more than enough to placate almost everyone. It would have certainly been enough for me.
Instead there's this plan that leaves us with uncertainties about how it will work, when it'll get implemented...
I'd have really preferred something far more simple and definite, for once, not more ideas that will create more need for more bureaucrats to expand the expansive expanses of my already-overly-expanded government.
One thing's plain: our modern political types would NEVER have found it in themselves to craft a simple and eloquent document like our Constitution. Todays breed would have produced a self-conflicted 4,000 page doorstop.