According to the President, those of us who don’t like the Senate Sellout of an immigration bill are just flat anti-American:
GLYNCO, Ga. - President Bush attacked opponents of an immigration deal Tuesday, suggesting they “don’t want to do what’s right for America.”
Bush trotted out the tired refrain of his administration: “trust me”:
“A lot of Americans are skeptical about immigration reform, primarily because they don’t think the government can fix the problems,” Bush said.
“And my answer to the skeptics is: give us a chance to fix the problems in a comprehensive way that enforces our border and treats people with decency and respect. Give us a chance to fix this problem. Don’t try to kill this bill before it gets moving,” Bush told students and instructors at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
He wants us to forget that fact that those who trusted him have often found knives planted firmly in their backs. He is apparently so deluded that he does not realize that “trust me” from G.W. Bush is now a laugh line.
He then spat (again) in the faces of conservatives (yes, those who got him elected twice):
“Those determined to find fault with this bill will always be able to look at a narrow slice of it and find something they don’t like,” the president said. “If you want to kill the bill, if you don’t want to do what’s right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it.
“You can use it to frighten people,” Bush said. “Or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all.”
I have finally had enough. I am over, done, finished with this President. I, like millions of others, voted for him twice, defended him against attacks that he was stupid, inept, racist, and cared only about the oil companies and the rich. I gave him the benefit of the doubt even when, it seemed, it had become clear he was in over his head. I am that dyed in the wool, Ronald Reagan Republican, flag-waving, patriotic nephew of my Uncle Sam.
And I have come to resent this president more than any other in my lifetime. Worse yet, I have come to agree with many of his opponents. He squandered great promise, including a resolute and united America, and replaced it with a divided, bitter, and disillusioned society.
One by one, this president has attacked any group who opposed his war or immigration policies. This has helped erode his base, as who is foolish enough to keep feeding the dog that bites his hand?
He has made me do what no other politician ever has: Look forward to the day his term ends.
It is not we serfs who have failed the president. It is the president who has betrayed us.
And when we speak up against another one of his potentially disastrous policies, he says we want to hurt America.
We could not possibly hurt America as much as this president has, and I, for one, can no longer trust or believe my former champion.
When Bush and his henchmen implied that those who spoke out against the war were un-American, I sometimes cheered them on. I am ashamed to admit it. I was wrong.
Now I know how those people felt. Because now, according to George Bush, I am un-American, too.
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I just read this - and was amazed that he would say that. Maybe not so amazed anymore - just annoyed. Apparently I’m un-American as well as I disagree with the immigration plan.
And to think, I named my hen after the First Lady and the Prez. I am so disappointed. I just can’t believe that our great Texan Governor has turned his back on us.
Oops. Hen and rooster. He was a tough guy too.
I’m ashamed to have voted for him twice. But I had no other option. Would we be better with a President Kerry, or Gore? It’s time for a new party. I’ve been shoved out the door of the Republican party and will not vote for a socialist Dhimmicrat (not much difference, but at least they’re more honest about their beliefs). Two parties aren’t enough when they are both the same, petty and self serving. Hang all Republi-crats from a lamp post!
He’s doing his best to replace Carter as worst President ever. I think they’re neck and neck now….
Rick, I share your thoughts and disillusionment. Two years ago I would never have agreed with you, but you summed up my feelings too. We have a fractured country, a mess of a war, and a border plan to turn this country into chaos.
As far as being Un-American…. ‘Eff you President Bush!
Does he realize how pissed of he’s making us? It’s like a death knoll has sounded for the Republican party. Heck - the Dems aren’t going to have to do anything - we are all going to be so annoyed and disenchanted with our own party that we take them out ourselves.
I remember well when his dad referred to we unbeliever types as un-American. It wasn’t fun for us either.
foolme once, foolme twice… but now I know the game!
Fred Thomson is really against the shamnesty bill.
Has anyone heard if mcscrew or juliana has turned against the bill as mcscrew is dropping in the poles and juliana is trying to dodge the question?
boosh is so dumb as he hooks up with a drunken murder to get a bill passed.
kyl from arizona is taking lots of heat on this also.
Of course crosky and hutch are voting with boosh and talking bad about the bill until it is time to vote. We need either Poe or Culberson to run against crosky in ‘08.
Has everyone signed the petition to stop this Amnesty
http://www.grassfire.org/42/petition.asp?PID=13470805
OK all, catharsis time has its limits. Annoyed, disappointed, outraged, or more earthy terms which gentle folk do not utter in public? Yes, big time!
Now get on the horn to Sens. Cornyn and Hutchison and tell them how the cow ate the cabbage on this bastard of an immigration bill. Then get on the horn to you Rep and repeat the message. In civilized terms, please. We are not barbarians.
President Bush is not running for office again, but the Sens. and Reps. are. They need to keep hearing us ROAR over the voices of the lobbyists, RINOs, and Dems in DC. Call the local offices since they are home for the Memorial Day break.
The defeatist mood is un-American. It didn’t prevail at Pearl Harbor, on the beaches of Normandy, the sands of Iwo Jima, stop Flight 93 on that terrible day, or clear the wreckage of 9/11. We do not quit when we know we are right.
Melt those phone lines.
This clown of a president would have greater success pushing a chain up a hill than he would have convincing me I should EVER believe anything that stumbles out of that smug puss of his. Carter’s almost beginning to look Einsteinian by comparison.
Date line Glynco Ga, I’ll be,…they even have their on zip code now. Glynco was a Navy Blimp Base that was decommisioned some time in the sixties? The Feds gave it to the city of Brunwick/Glynn County, where I lived for about 4 years. FLETC moved in in the late seventies, I used to shoot with some of Feds, (firearm instructors) and damn they were gooood! They used 38’s back then and the weapon of choice for the range was the Smith model-10 with a heavy barrel and 5 to 6 Lb double action trigger spring.When I left they were trting to get one of the major carriers to come to the Airport there instead of Malcolm Mc Kinnon of SSI.
Several citizens are melting the Senatorial office
phone lines. Sen. Hutchinson’s line is busy; Sen Cornyn’s was answered with a message to leave your name and number and we will return your call when a line is open.
Keep punching them numbers.
Let the new party begin. The old one thinks I’m un-American for expecting the government to enforce our laws.
…OK Mr. Bush, here’s some empty political rhetoric” for ya…
#17…whatever happened? here’s some “empty political rhetoric” for ya…NO MORE SUPPORT.
Sen. Cornyn’s staff person just called back. According to him, the Senator has not “gone wobbly” on the immigration bill despite what shows up in the Chron. He believes the border must be secured first, more border security hired, and the laws already on the books need to be enforced. Their phones have been ringing steadily.
Good. Keep ‘em ringing.
Atleast we have TWO miles of fence built.
George Bush is a wrecking machine!
Man the phones.
Guess the speech at Glynco Ga was Bush’s latest Shock and Awwwwwwww……
http://www.aquilaarts.com/bushmonkey.jpg
Where is Sarge to defend his hero?
When Bush called the Minutemen vigilantes the masses should have awoken. The MM were vigilantes. They were trying to take things into their own hands and save this country.
Is Sarge unAmerican? I dont know where he stands on this. I remember at one time he floated the idea of annexation.
Will a tinfoil sombrero to protect me from illegal aliens?
http://www.calvarychapel.com/auburn/images/School/Gallery/spirit%20week%20garbage%20bag-tin%20foil%20day.jpg
It started long before that. When the NRA rightfully called the BATF “jack booted thugs” and Bush Sr. dropped his NRA membership instead of getting control of them as he should have, that should have been the first warning.
Fasternu, you really need to trim those nails.
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I’ve written to Kay Bailey, and appreciate the press release that she and Cornyn wrote on Friday.
I’m disappointed in the administration, and I’m not really sure what he was trying to do. Garner support from the Dems on this? Improve poll numbers from the Left?
Unfortunately no one in this country is so stupid as to believe an open, porous border is a good policy for any soveriegn nation especially our own. So President Bush is essentially calling all American’s, unAmerican.
I’m disappointed. The duck is lame … what’s up for 2008?
And here’s to writing letters and ringing the phones.
Jorge B Bushnandez says his Komp-rye-Hensive Scamnesty plan will bring the illegals out of the shadows.
So does this mean that the 22 million already here are in the shadows doing the jobs Americans won’t do, we just can’t see them or the jobs? Does this mean that when they are in the hot sun they cast no shadow because they are in the shadows?
Does this mean when Americans are killed by illegal alien drunk drivers, they really aren’t dead because the illegal alien driver was in the shadows?
Does this mean that Ramos and Compeon should be free because they wounded someone who was in the shadows? Maybe they wounded a shadow.
And were the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens marching in the street, carrying Mexican flags not really there since they are all in the shadows? Was the sun out that day? Would they have cast a shadow if it was?
Didn’t Jorge B Bushnandez take an oath to uphold the Constitution, but his oath did not take that day because the Bible he put his hand on was in the shadows?
We do know that the National Guard he ordered to protect the border is in the shadows with no bullets in their guns. Maybe Jorge B. should bring them out of the shadows.
So once Scamnesty passes, Jorge will say Abracadabra, click his heels together, wave his pitchfork and poof….the borders are secured. I believe it, I believe It……I am no longer un-American!!
Unfortunately, I agree with you. I’m done with him.
Bush is insane. Kerry would have been even worse, probably, but I can no longer deny Bush is insane.
DEPORT the illegals, build a FENCE, and drop BIGGER BOMBS on Iraq! No more sending our soldiers door to door! That’s BS!!
There is one last tried and true arrow in his bag. He can say 9-11 a few times when he talks about the immigration plan. He can also say the additional Mexicans will help out on the WOT and any clean up from a terrorist event here. Just say 9-11, WOT, Alcaders and immigration reform all at the same time.
Hey, dont laugh, its fooled us before.
“WOT? Me worry?” (Alfred E. Neuman)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman
30. T-Hawkk
You mention one thing I didn’t address - Kerry. Though Bush has lost most all my support, like you, I still would have voted for him over Kerry.
So I do not apologize for my 2004 vote.
However, W still has a year and a half to change my mind on that, too.
I used to think President Bush’s irratic behavior was because of a growing brain tumor. I once had an acquaintentance that died from a brain tumor– he gradually lost his grip on reality just like Bush appears to have.
Today it appears that El Prisidente Jorge is the Manchurian Candidate of the Globalist Kabal!
The professional GOP office holders better get a grip on affairs or there ain’t going to be a GOP ticket to run over after 2008.
Since November of 2000, I have been waiting for GW to demonstrate that he actually has the capacity for “original thought”.
1) He relied on the vetting by Daddy’s administration (and, of course, on the approval of Karl Rove) of virtually every ranking staffer and Cabinet member that would agree to join his White House.
2) When you take a sucker punch to the solar plexus (as we did on 9/11), it doesn’t necessarily require an epiphany, once you catch your breath, to strike back. His response in Afghanistan gave me a ray of hope.
3) As much as I agree that Sadaam Hussein was a bad guy and needed to go, I believe that had he not tried to assassinate Daddy, he might still be in power today.
4) What we’re seeing in the immigration debacle and subsequent debate, is the pursuit of Daddy’s “New World Order” agenda. What I don’t understand is that GW persistently acts more like the president of the Mexican people than he does of the American people…or worse yet, that he thinks we are one in the same which, by the way, is totally consistent with the comments he made when he originally endorced this legislation shortly after its introduction.
Will someone please explain to me why Bush is forcing our brave, courageous 19-year-old American Soldiers to kick in doors when we could blow the f’ing town to hell from above?
We firebombed German cities, firebombed AND nuked Japanese cities, and we turned BOTH their militant cultures into a bunch of compliant pervs!
I’m glad Japanese males spend all their time now groping schoolgirls on buses instead of plotting world domination!
So maybe the defeated muslim males would grope school boys instead of girls, so what? Just so long as they leave us alone!!
I haven’t seen anyone make this connection - yet - re: the immegration mess, but “follow the money.”
Adee(#19), don’t believe the lies from Cornyn or Hutchison. They both had the chance (Senator Vitter’s amendment) to vote to remove the amnesty provision from the bill last week, and they voted against it. They are saying one thing, but doing the opposite. Sleazy behavior at its worst. In the end they will vote to grant amnesty, and claim victory with a few minor provisions that will be ignored in the future.
Remember …. everything about this bill can and will be taken back afterward, EXCEPT the legalization of the illegals.
Excuse my ignorance, am I missing something here?Would someone please tell me who this Gibson character is or was?
John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush have proven once and for all that no child of a former President should ever be elected President of the United States.
RickG
He probably was addressing the lack of accuracy in the debate on illegal immigration.
You know like saying France was doing more than us
Like Hispanics committ more crime or don’t pay taxes…..
Its going to pass, they are not going to become citizens maybe 20% over many many years
The enforcement on the border has deported now 150,000 people FYTD
This bill will bring law enforcement and the deportation process to a creshendo of over 1.5 million deportations a year
Ditto on what RickG said…/buying more ammo at Wallyworld tomorrow.
the whole thing is quite basic. They take a job in Washington and ’swear’ to uphold the constitution. One of the first powers given to the government (read DUTIES in this case) is to defend the country. Since they have failed, vis a vis the immigration bill, they, including the ‘marginalizer’ Bush, should be impeached. He must be the ’stealth’ manipulator for the ‘take over the country’ lot. Maybe there is something to Skull and Bones and the rest of the secret handshakers.
One other thought. If we all get together (Hendee are you listening). let’s buy a strip of land , close to the border and erect fences on it ourselves; maybe half a mile in. We can donate to each section and that will make the bloody foreigners have to go in between on the roads. once they are in between they will be very noticeable. To make it work, we have to have Ag exempt property for obvious reasons. Make them a going concern; no charity so as to keep the government mitts as far away as possible. This could work!!! all we have to do then is fight for our property rights ( I suppose thats next); not a border fence. Maybe Cavez for prez, at least he’s up front!!!!
IMPEACH THE TRAITOR. Do the research on the secret societies and you will know the truth. Follow the money, It’s the great American sell-out.
This man does not posess the inteligence his resume suggests, grade inflation has been rampant in the Ivy League since the Vietnam era.
It is not that he seeks the counsel of others to make decisions of such great national significance, he is seeking their permission. He is not running this show; FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!
http://www.michellemalkin.com/
Bush is a traitor! He’s lost his mind! Impeach the traitor!
Long-live the Constitution!
President Bush, meet Article IV, Section IV of the U.S. Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;(…)
IMPEACH THE TRAITOR BUSH!!
Bush has not done anything impeachable, despite y’alls obvious delusions about what is an impeachable offense.
That said…
He’s a failure at protecting our borders. His “plan” is ineffective and doomed to fail. Our Congress needs to step up and correct that failure… Oh wait… Democrats are in control. We’re doomed.
How about we resign from the Union? Texas does have the 16th largest economy on this planet…
On second thought….
Our Texas legislature is infested with self-centered egotistical buffoons….
We’re doomed.
I thought the Gibson was a martini
Mike, Since when is TREASON not an impeachable offense.
If the congress could bring impeachment against Clinton why can’t they impeach Bush(follow the money). At least by doing so they would make him ineffective for a period of time.
That’s an easy answer GRIZ, Bush has not committed treason.
And BJ did intentionally lie to a court. He, being a “lawyer”, knew that was an impeachable offense, but didn’t think Congress would go there.
50 aw
More importantly, Gibson LOVES martinis.
Bush is indeed an embarrassment and a menace to this country. I hate that we have to put up with another year of his blatant incompetence. I am pinning my hopes on Ron Paul who is the only candidate out there that actually qualifies as a Republican - someone who believe less government is better. Paul’s campaign is barely making a mark in the national media but I believe if y’all would take a look at his record and his positions, you’d join me in supporting him and maybe - just maybe - we could get him elected.