Not the same
“Welcome to the hardball of the Bush administration. We loved it when they used it on Democrats and the war, and it seems just a little hypocritical to start whining about it now that we’re getting a taste of it ourselves.”
Not the same at all. While the war on terror and the question of illegal (let’s not loose the definition) immigration - and national security are one and the same. However, Bush telling cut and run democrats to “get bent” and then telling his constituents who are concerned on how the current bill lessens our national security “get bent” is ludicrous.
The problem we are seeing is basically one of arrogance and of forgetting who brung you to the dance. As a leader in the local GOP of South Florida let me tell you this IS the break point for our future support for Bush as well as all those who support the bill.
Had it not been for the core of the Party - who are against this bill Bush wouldn’t be President today and that other (ugh) guy would be Presi…..
**********holy crud, wheres my Pepto again!!
Fact is that when you are seeing more and more the core in outrage (Noonan and Will are just a few of the big names), the issue because “Who is George working for”?, and right now it’s not us.
As everyone knows from the Macranger Show with my pal Harold Hutchinson, I support immigration reform. But anyone who has actually read the drafts and not had their hair stand on end wondering, “What in the &#^@ are they thinking”, knows how valid the concerns on this present bill are.
It IS an amnesty bill, and all the “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” talk won’t change it.
Bush is on a mission as detailed here. He truly believes in this cause and I can appreciate that. But he is also the present leader of our Party and as such he was elected by US to promote the agendas and concerns that are important to us.
On this issue however he has talken a Marie Antoinette approach to us and subsequently he’s gotten his head chopped off.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
My sister worked in Milawukee at Rath Packing as a bookkeeper for years. They closed her plant to move it to NE or IA where they could hire illegals. So she got a job with IBM. They closed the Milwaukee office and moved all those jobs to India this spring.
Repubs wonder why people are upset. There’s nothing you can do for a living that the Republican party won’t happily allow big business to outsource or import somebody who’ll work cheaper as long as the fatcats keep filling their campaign coffers. Nothing.
Case in point, the RNC announced yesterday they’re shutting down their DC fundraising office and firing all 65 solicitors because donations are off 40%. 99% of all callees express disgust about the immigration bill. The RNC also cites outmoded equipment that would be costly to replace.
Hogwash. Does anybody think the RNC is just folding it’s fundraising tent? They’re either outsourcing those calls like they did the phonejamming scam in NH in 2002 or switching over to robocalling. They still have a lot of those rc machines they used in last year’s elections to fool indy voters all over the country into believing Dems were flooding their phones with calls a dozen times a day. That little scam is going to be outlawed before the next election so letting most donors scream at a machine is a cheaper way to find the few true believers still dumb enough to pony up.