President Bush just finished addressing the nation from the Oval Office, having been driven to it by the current cacophony over illegal immigration into the U.S. He didn’t say much of anything new, repeating his old and well-known position on enforcement and a guest worker program, and a comprehensive bill including both. He started by … Continue reading Bush talks about illegal immigration
In the wake of 9/11, President Bush ordered the secret wiretapping of American citizens without obtaining the legally mandated court orders. Remarkably, brazenly, he has even admitted it, citing his sworn duty to protect us. Apparently he has some notion that as president of the United States, he is not bound by the same law … Continue reading Gestapo tactics illegal in America
Yes, there’s a definite anti-Bush bias in this blog. It might shed some light to know I was a lifelong registered Republican until Dubya came along. He was the last straw in my growing disenchantment with the Republican Party. I’m not particularly content as a Democrat, either. (Howard Dean as party chairman? What a suicidal … Continue reading For the record…
I should have known it was too good to be true. That twinge of optimism I felt after President Bush’s speech yesterday was dashed within an hour. It seems his idea of “temporary” (as in “temporary worker”) is up to six years. No, no, Mr. President. Temporary should be more like two or three months, … Continue reading Bush’s ‘temp’ could stay 6 years
President George Bush just completed a speech on immigration, and he finally managed to say something convincing and worthwhile. In fact, he said a lot of things convincingly: he’ll stop illegal immigration; build physical barriers where needed; implement rapid deportation of all illegals we catch; not grant amnesty to illegal immigrants; require immigrants to abide … Continue reading Hallelujah, Mr. Bush
President Bush’s efforts to explain himself remind me of an old “Happy Days” episode where The Fonz was trying to apologize and admit he was wrong. He kept saying, “I was w…. I was w…, w…,” and never did manage to say “wrong.” Continue reading Bush reminiscent of The Fonz
