In the photo in Friday’s Eagle of President Bush riding shotgun in a Border Patrol dune buggy, his broad smile seemed at odds with the sour rhetoric many Americans have directed toward his comprehensive approach to the illegal immigration problem. But a CBS News poll showed the president got a 4 percentage point bounce in his overall approval rating from his Monday night address to the nation on the issue. And 62 percent favor his plan to put 6,000 National Guard troops at the U.S.-Mexico border, 6 in 10 approve of his proposed guest-worker program, and 77 percent were fine with allowing those who’ve been here at least five years to seek citizenship if they pay fines and back taxes and learn English. The president’s overall approval was just 35 percent in the poll, but maybe Bush has found the right path on immigration.
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He’s smiling because like the other hot button issues his administration has to tangle with,(Iraq, Afghanistan, capturing Osama Bin Laden) he simply doesn’t take them seriously. That is why voter confidence in the Republican party is veritably low. Metaphorically speaking, the Bush administration is the ice berg that sunk the Republican Titanic.
Nothing Bush has offered will stop or even slow the mass migration of illeagles coming across the Mexican/United States border.
Anything short of threatening and using deadly force will not work.
The California border is the best example of how the best fences and the most sofisticated equiptment and manpower have failed.
If we’re not going to get dead serious about defending the border, then we might as well just charge a fee as they come across.
Every Police department operates on the threat of deadly force, force, or jail-time.
Crossing our southern border, entering the United States illegally carry no penalty. You’re given a hot meal and sent home to keep trying until you make it. At that point they’re is little more than “lip-service” to catch you and send you back.
That’s how 35 million got here and stayed.
It doesn’t work.
As with everything Bush does, it’s political smoke and mirrors, phony polls, and disastrous results.
I don’t know; I liked the shot of Bush in the dune buggy. Sporty. Carefree, in an “I’m down to kick some brown-skinned ass!” kind of way.
CF
I liked Bush looking out the window of Air Force One at the Katrina victims in an “I’m looking out of the window kind of way”
I just watched Rice on “Meet the Press” telling me how wonderful the government of Iraq was doing.
They now control over 200 square feet of Baghdad and the road to the airport in now safe. Not now, then, when I said: ” now safe.”
Talk about photo ops, did you see the one of Bush on a ladder with a hammer in his hand, holding nails in his mouth? The caption read, “Bush helps Katrina victims rebuild their houses” He needs to fire his press agent, is he so stupid that he doesn’t realize how ridiculously phony that looks to everyone?
As far as the immigration issue, it’s been going on since I was a kid (and that was long, long ago). What a way to keep the focus off the mess in Iraq. I’m sure the administration couldn’t be happier. American’s are all such sheep, they go wherever the goverment and media lead them.
So what if it is a way to change the attention of people?
It is also something that needs to be done.
Actually, I am sure you would make the same argument about anything this administration does now as being nothing more than trying to take attention off Iraq, regardless…
Glub, glub, glub……
How do you post strains of “Nearer my God to thee”?
Bounce?
What goes up must come down……further.
In case any of you missed it, see this Washington Post story about how this administration is going to use the elections to rehabilitate the reputation/capitol of Bush:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101096.html
In the article it states that no politician this far down in approval ratings has ever been able to recover. I think chimpy will need some spectacular luck for this to happen. A dramatic capture of bin Laden trying to enter Iran would sure be a timely event.
Nathan…..can you say “bbbaaahhhh”?
Damoon,
Can you say that you are a partisan hack that would say Bush is trying to divert attention from Iraq no matter what the issue?
And while Bush keeps everybody’s eye on immigration: “Israeli firm suspected of trying to smuggle drones to China”By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent , and Haaretz Service
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/718556.html
Truth hurts, huh Nathan?
Nathan, can you say that you are a little lamb that would take it in the rear if Bush was standing behind you?
Not really, no.
Question authority, Nathan, it’s good for the heart and mind.
You’re asking a marine to question authority? All they do is obey orders and kill people.
“You’re asking a marine to question authority? All they do is obey orders and kill people.”
Crusader: That was one of the two most stupid, simple-minded things I’ve seen posted here recently. You can do better.
The other I saw today is JR’s comment on the Brownback thread that no Republican can be described as having honor. I’m not sure if JR can do any better. If not, he has sunk to a new low.
Why is that stupid? Is it because it’s true? What do you think all that training is for? It’s to break down their own willpower and make them follow orders on instinct. A Marine’s job may include technical things, but as every one of them is a rifleman, I would say that their first priority is killing the enemy. So what? They do a damn good job of doing it, nothing against the Marines by the way.