Whatever GWB is, he is no friend of American citizens. I hope this immigration mess is the end of his administration. If he is elected again in November, he will back at us with co-President Fox looking to finish what he started this month.

Reports already coming in of a surge of invaders from Mexico Lindo in response to Bush’s announcement of the dissolution of the United States:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36748

Quelle surprise.

Blow your mind with this quote from Friday’s L.A. Times:

“The business community, AFL-CIO and the immigrant community are the political forces that are going to determine whether the president’s proposal passes [Congress]…”
- Jeanne Butterfield,
executive director, American Immigration Lawyers Association

In other words, the “citizen community” need not apply.

It’s funny, I did a radio show this morning with five fellow conservatives, with me being the most radical on being anti-Bush, and anti-immigration, and we almost came to blows in the room ! I was happy by the way to see this discord, it shows me GWB’s people are scared, and the split in the Party over this insane immigration proposal is real, and deep. We may yet get Bush Jr. out of office over this. I told my fellow conservatives and Republican friends flat-out that I want GWB defeated, and that I’m NOT leaving the Republican Party; but would like to see George OUT !!!

I think it’s not impossible. Presidents lose for re-election when they violate faith, when they show a contempt for their own base. Conservatives turned against Bush 41 when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and other things. Bush 43’s betrayals, or, rather, his expressions of contempt for conservatives, are greater those of his father. We tend to feel that Bush 43 can’t be beaten because of the war and the weakness of the Democrats. But a surprise may be in store. I instinctively feel that Bush could lose.

Mr. Auster writes:
“Bush 43’s betrayals, or, rather, his expressions of contempt for conservatives, are greater those of his father.”

I think Bush betrayed patriotic Americans, Liberal, middle of the road or conservative. His immigration proposal is nothing short of revolutionary manifesto the result of which is to destroy our country as we know it. In short it is Gorbachevism.

This is from article by John O’Sullivan
http://www.nationalreview.com/jos/jos200401141005.asp:

“Some years ago Owen Harries, the founding editor of The National Interest magazine, coined a term, “Gorbachevism,” to describe a new sort of politics. Gorbachevism was a politics that “substituted daring for thought” and that accordingly consisted of “a series of leaps into the unknown.” Mikhail Gorbachev was, of course, the first Gorbachevite. His bold attempts to reform the Soviet Union brought about its total collapse — a standard of achievement that is hard to match. But George W. Bush is bidding to match it with his proposed reforms of immigration law.”

Another point to support Mr. Auster feeling that GWB just might loose - Jobs. Job market is far worse than it was under papa Bush mediocre presidency. GWB is the first prez since Hoover who had fewer people working at the end of his term than at the start.

I realize that many participants at this blog are quite indifferent to the employment situation. But it is a real issue to most working voters.

Of course Bush betrayed the country, not just conservatives. But nowadays it seems most of the people who oppose the instant legalization of all illegals are self-described conservatives. Every Dem candidate supports total legalization, and no one in the Democratic party protests. So that’s a third of the country right there that supports total legalization. And, since Bush’s proposal, where has ANY strong criticism come from, except from conservatives?

I like the concept of Gorbachevism.

Regarding the Bush amnesty, Mr. Auster writes: “And, since Bush’s proposal, where has ANY strong criticism come from, except from conservatives?”

Perhaps the American people? I keep hearing the participants in political roundtables say that Bush’s favorable rating has *dropped* since the State of Union speech. Hmmm? Most of the talking heads, however, don’t want to get into the issue of “why”? To the extent they do analyze Bush’s drop, it’s always because Bush has angered his base by “too much spending”. Hmmm? Haven’t heard a whole lot of spending criticism myself. Have heard a LOT of criticism on you-know-what. Of course, immigration is the ONE issue that must NEVER be brought up on any network or cable TV roundtable by “respectable” pundits.

I hope Paul C. is right. But even if he is right, the media has not covered it that way. They’ve made any opposition to the immigration plan purely a matter of disgruntled conservatives. In reality, it is (or ought to be) opposed, not by disgrunted “conservatives,” by but disgruntled AMERICANS, since it’s an attack on our nation, our laws, everything.

It’s similar to the media’s spin on the split in the Episcopal Church. We’re told over and over that the dissidents from homosexual ordination are “conservatives.” No. They’re not “conservatives” (since these same people went along with ordination of women, the ‘79 prayer book, and so on); they’re CHRISTIANS, since, with homosexual ordination, the EPUSA has ceased being a Christian church.

After President Bush proposed his immigration amnesty plan many critics of the plan on the right predicted that the proposal of the plan alone would lead to an increase in illegal immigration as foreigners would attempt to enter the country to take advantage of an immigration amnesty they believe will likely take effect and because the they would believe the proposal of such a plan to be a signal that we are not really serious about controlling our borders. Unfortunately, according to an article published recently in the _New York Times_, illegal attempts to enter the U.S. have increased greatly this year. The increase in attempted border crossings is attributed to a desire by Mexicans to enter the U.S. so as to take advantage of President Bush’s amnesty. Though the author of the article is mostly concerned with the sad increase in deaths of immigrants attempting to enter the U.S. by walking across the Sonoran Desert, he gives a good account of the disastrous effects of the mere proposal of the amnesty plan.

“At the bottleneck of human smuggling here in the Sonoran Desert, illegal immigrants are dying in record numbers as they try to cross from Mexico into the United States in the wake of a new Bush administration amnesty proposal that is being perceived by some migrants as a magnet to cross.

“‘The season of death,’ as Robert C. Bonner, the commissioner in charge of the Border Patrol, calls the hot months, has only just begun, and already 61 people have died in the Arizona border region since last Oct. 1, according to the Mexican Interior Ministry — triple the pace of the previous year…

“The mountainous Sonoran Desert, between Yuma in the west and Nogales in the east, is the top smuggling entry point along the entire 1,951-mile line with Mexico, the Border Patrol says. Through the middle of May, apprehensions of crossers in the desert south of Tucson had jumped 60 percent over the previous year. Nearly 300,000 people were caught trying to enter the United States through the desert border since last Oct. 1.

“After a four-year drop, apprehensions — which the Border Patrol uses to measure human smuggling — are up 30 percent over last year along the entire southern border, with 660,390 people detained from Oct. 1 through the end of April, federal officials said…

“Agents and groups opposed to open borders say the spike in crossings and deaths are the fault of the Bush proposal, which is stalled in Congress and unlikely to be acted on this year. But it has created a stir in Mexico, they say.

‘They’ve dangled this carrot, and as a result apprehensions in Arizona are just spiking beyond belief,’ said T. J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents about 9,000 agents. ‘The average field agent is just mystified by the administration’s throwing in the towel on this.’

“Mr. Bonner, who is not related to the border commissioner, said the people were crossing in huge numbers, even at the high risk of dying in the desert, because ‘they’re trying to get in line for the big lottery we’ve offered them.’
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/national/23BORD.html

Rich Lowry at NRO has an article on illegal immigration based on the _New York Times_ article linked to in my above post.

He writes,”One of President Bush’s most recent “compassionate” initiatives has indirectly led to more horrific deaths along the Arizona-Mexico border. Bush’s proposal for a quasi-amnesty for illegal aliens has been interpreted by poor Mexicans as a welcome mat, increasing the rate of attempted border crossings and the tragic deaths that go with them. Sixty-one people have died along the Arizona border since last October, a threefold increase from the rate of the previous year.

“The bodies are a testament to America’s broken immigration system. If we really want to encourage more Mexicans to come here, we should have the decency to help ensure their safe passage. If we don’t — as most politicians, including Bush, would maintain — then all talk of any sort of amnesty should be dropped, and our seriousness about enforcing immigration laws should be broadcast so clearly that it is understood even in the far reaches of Mexico.”
http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200405251105.asp

We do not need to look all the way to Baghdad for examples of George W. Bush’s thoughtlessness. HRS