The real fault is with our legislators - they do nothing, they stand for nothing.
So convenient to blame the President who is NOT the one writing the legislation. I haven't noticed the congress doing anything the President wants. Seems the senators are always the ones destroying any of our agenda.
Why do you ignore the backstabbing efforts of McCain, Nagle, Specter, Graham and the entire list that always default and join in with the democrats? Why is McCain foremost in creating legislation that we conservatives rile against. I don't see the President creating any legislation.
That is problem
Whoops - Nagle = Hagel
Yeah, you're probably right. It actually crossed my mind after I posted that I was probably disproportionately harsh on GWB in that comment and inadequately harsh on the Senate, though I sure didn't take it easy on McCain either!
I think the mere absurd notion that I might join a McCain bandwagon put me in such a scathing mood that I misdirected some of it toward GWB. My real issue here is that I detest McCain, and it really irks me that not everyone else detests him likewise..
My issue with GWB on all this is that I don't think it'd even be much of an issue were it not for GWB throwing his weight behind amnesty, by whatever name. If GWB agreed with the strong-borders, tough-on-illegals view of the House that bill would be a done deal.
The Senate could be mostly replaced with anonymous citizens pulled off the city streets and would make better sense. Kind of like how they do jury duty. I served on a grand jury for 3 months, once a week, and these ordinary citizens - retired people, a flagger, someone who worked in a door factory, a vet assistant, and others - made more sense than just about any elected (deleted noun) I've ever heard.
Only a few college grads in the bunch, I may add. Oh, and no millionaires, either.
Why there are so many freepers that keep defending the President on this issue is beyond me. Wake up!
Close the borders and don't reward illegals along with ruining this country in the process! President Bush is NOT helping in this matter.
Day after day I read threads supporting what the President wants to do with ILLEGAL immigration and how people keep defending him on it... I thought this was "Free Republic" not "Bush at all cost"
Something I learned during the Senate trial of Bill Clinton is that there is a congenital arrogance among Senators. As the House Managers took the floor to argue for the conviction of Slick Willie, it was undeniable the way they seemed to look down their noses at mere representatives, and they seemed to think it was their responsibility as the elite society of 100 select leaders to save America from the riff-raff that gets elected by the dozens.
It kills me that former House Manager Lindsey Graham is on the same side as Schmuck Chumer so often. Even my favorite Congressmember on the House Judiciary Committee during impeachment, Bob Inglis (then a lame duck Congressman in South Carolina but has since been sent back to the House), seems now to be allied with the so-called Main Street Republicans that value compromise above principle.