Posted on 01/10/2009 8:33:16 AM PST by bimboeruption
Edited on 01/10/2009 8:35:13 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
President George W. Bush told a group of Texas reporters Friday that he regretted immigration policies were not reformed while he was in office.
"I'm very disappointed that it didn't pass," he said in an interview with correspondents from his home state. "I'm very worried about the message that said, 'Republicans are anti-immigrant.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Yes, I thought that Bush's struggles with alcohalism and his "born-again" moment would give him a stronger sense of solidarity with ordinary people. He's not completely out of touch and I would say he's more viscerally conservative than his father. Nevertheless, his elitist tendencies seem to win out in the end in a way that Reagan's never did. It's funny how Reagan--the Hollywood star and corporate spokesman--seems one of us, whereas Bush never really was.
“Such a pathetic finish.”
Exactly.
“Such a promising start.”
With all due respect to you, I must disagree.
His “compassionate conservatism” bomb in his first inaugural address (I didn’t listen to his second) jolted me out of my chair. I knew from that moment on we were in big trouble.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t wrong.
Please GOD, NO more Bush’s, Clintons, or Kennedys.
No more old fools like John McLame or Bob Dole.
You Go Saracuda.
Do you think being a member of the secret society Skull and Bones has anything to do with THE MORON being out of touch with we lowlife serfs?
Skull and Bones members are snobs for the most part -- i.e. Kerry, Strobe Talbot, Dana Milbank, Bush 1 and 2 and Bush 1's father, John Chafee, William Howard Taft, Robert Taft, several Rockefellers to name a few.
Name the US Presidents that used National Guard on our Border?
Thanks for confirming my assertion. Notice that the Blackwell position is essentially the same as the "Amnesty King," McCain. McCain wanted to deport immediately the two million or so illegal criminal aliens and then he would allow the rest to stay if the payed a fine, learned English, and then "got to the back of the line" for citizenship. The use of language is key. Just as the pro-amnesty types refer to illegal aliens as "undocumented workers," they also use getting to the back of the line, paying fines, and learning Engish as not being an amnesty.
If you allow the illegals to stay and work here and bring in their families, this is an amnesty. You are rewarding law breakers. They are breaking our laws just by being here, and then they commit other crimes like ID theft, working illegally, non-payment of taxes, etc.
As I said, Blackwell is pro-amnesty. The only real position for a conservative is attrition thru enforcement. It works.
No, they don’t care. They just want to remain viable politically and will compromise every principle to do so.
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Anything but toe the line based on true, basic, traditional Conservatism.
For many things, but chief among them, Immigration and the loss of our nation as we knew it, while he fiddled as Rome burned.
Actually, rank-and-file Dems were against it as well. We couldn’t do it alone. We may yet do it again.
The Terry Anderson Show...
Tonight Terry will say...
“Illegal aliens have destroyed this country!”
Agree? Disagree?
Call Terry LIVE 9-10 PM PST at (866) 870-57521
LIVE stream at http://krla870.townhall.com/
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2162907/posts?page=1
If anyone doubts the underlying racisim in so many of these threads (even ones like this one that the mods don’t remove as they did in the last racially charged thread where we sparred) all he or she has to do is examine the contempt of George Prescot Bush. What is he guilty of to deserve this contempt? Having a brown mother. That and nothing more.
TIA
I’ve been reconsidering this immigration reform issue from a different perspective, lately, a perspective that I overlooked until now.
The Democrats were and are planning to use the illegals to overturn and break down our capitalist system, by unionization. That’s how they won the Hispanic vote in the last election, and my guess is that the SEIU (a direct offshoot of ACORN) was responsible for the attack ads that ran on the Spanish lang. radio stations. The SEIU took over electioneering, where ACORN dropped off. They paid for almost all the negative attack ads for the Democrat governors’ race in WA State and probably in many other states. Oh, and the joined with Indian tribes in WA State.
I read that the SEIU is now the largest most powerful union in Southern California, and of course Nevada.
Maybe Bush saw this coming, way before we did.
It ain't nuthin' compared to the violent, crude, guttural nature of even the smallest of conversations conducted by the MEChA terrorists, the National Council of La Raza, and the entire Mexican "government" when it comes to the subject of "Ahn-glows" and what they would like to do to us.
Been there, heard that, ran as far and as fast away from it as I could.
And as far as Mr. G.P. Bush, you need only do a little research on his statements referring to his ethnicity and even comments in Mexico condemning the Border Patrol to answer your question about contempt.
His only claim to power will be his family name and his Mexican ancestry. Sorry, but I - and pretty much most Americans - have no intention of being ruled by those loyal to the Mexican Murderocracy.
I’d be glad to, but the thread was pulled by the mods, which is in itself evidence that it was pretty bad.
Am I wrong...?
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