He's stuck and there really is no recovering. My hope is that he doesn't let it affect the war with the islamofascists and while at one time I would scoff at such a notion, I no longer do.
He has more compassion for foreign citizens than he does American citizens.
He's creating another welfare state and the American citizens will have to give up caring for their own families to pay for it.
American citizens are nothing but money signs for the pandering politicians. Our job is to make the government wealthy enough to control us. We're forced to pay for our own imprisonment so the politicians can live a powerful and luxurious life.
The reason I keep making so much noise on this issue is precisely because of what you said here - Bush's insistence on a guest worker program before completing border security is just killing the GOP, and losing the House would have terrible consequences to continuing the battle against the Islamists.
And it's not just about what to do with those already here - a wide range of people with a wide range of opinions as to what needs to be done with the illegals already here have come to the conclusion that we must secure the borders first, for damn good logical and historical reasons. That Bush and his advisors would ignore this ever-increasing crescendo is just baffling to me. And it's not like he cannot bring the issue foward again two years from now, in the last year of his term. In two years, we will be able to see if we have signficantly improved border security, and then we can have a sane discussion as to what internal changes need to be made. And most importantly, those changes will have a chance to actually work at that point. ANY changes made now will be doomed to failure, just as Reagan's amnesty was doomed because border security was not improved subsequent to the amnesty.
I just cannot understand why Bush cannot back down here. Maybe it's because the base grumbled but eventually went along with his spending, education fiascos and his Medicare prescription benefit. Maybe his advisors think that will happen again. But I think the base has made it clear for some time that this was the one line that could not be crossed. And Bush is willing to cross the Rubicon anyway.