Blame Where Blame Belongs
Once again, President Bush has fumbled the ball. His repeated, indefensible call for amnesty (although he won`t call it that) and guest-invader status for aliens has split the blue-blood Republicans from the base, and he may have cost his party the Congress in the next election. I was going to launch into a scathing rant on the President`s infuriating refusal to enforce the law and protect our borders, but our old friend BobG, writing from the front lines in Arizona at Sweet Spirits of Ammonia, has beaten me to it!
He places blame where it belongs:
To say that we must "begin by recognizing the problems with our immigration system" is most disingenuous. Once again, who is responsible for that system? It would be you, Mr. President. And trying to share the blame that should fall to you, directly, with all of the American people is truly an act of cowardice.
If you knew that for "decades, the United States has not been in complete control of its borders", why did you wait another half of a decade to address this vital issue? You knew, Mr. President because even in this speech you stated, " I was the governor of a state that has a 1,200-mile border with Mexico. So I know how difficult it is to enforce the border, and how important it is." So, the truth is you knew this was a problem when you took office, you knew, certainly after 9/11, it was a critical issue, and you did nothing.
I am sick of you trying to portray people who have broken our nation's laws as living "in the shadows of our society". That is what happens when you break the law, you have to avoid the limelight. What part of that do you fail to understand? These people are not victims, so stop trying to portray them as such. If they have been victimized at all it is by their own country and your amigo El Zorro. The fact that they are, as you say, "beyond the reach and protection of American law" is because the law has not been enforced. Once again, who has failed to do that job? Can you say, the president? I knew you could!
The very next part of your speech says, " We are a nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws." Don't make me ask again whose job that is and who has not been doing that job!
Those of you who are upset by the failures of the present Administration can`t afford to miss the rest of this.
He places blame where it belongs:
To say that we must "begin by recognizing the problems with our immigration system" is most disingenuous. Once again, who is responsible for that system? It would be you, Mr. President. And trying to share the blame that should fall to you, directly, with all of the American people is truly an act of cowardice.
If you knew that for "decades, the United States has not been in complete control of its borders", why did you wait another half of a decade to address this vital issue? You knew, Mr. President because even in this speech you stated, " I was the governor of a state that has a 1,200-mile border with Mexico. So I know how difficult it is to enforce the border, and how important it is." So, the truth is you knew this was a problem when you took office, you knew, certainly after 9/11, it was a critical issue, and you did nothing.
I am sick of you trying to portray people who have broken our nation's laws as living "in the shadows of our society". That is what happens when you break the law, you have to avoid the limelight. What part of that do you fail to understand? These people are not victims, so stop trying to portray them as such. If they have been victimized at all it is by their own country and your amigo El Zorro. The fact that they are, as you say, "beyond the reach and protection of American law" is because the law has not been enforced. Once again, who has failed to do that job? Can you say, the president? I knew you could!
The very next part of your speech says, " We are a nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws." Don't make me ask again whose job that is and who has not been doing that job!
Those of you who are upset by the failures of the present Administration can`t afford to miss the rest of this.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 5:34 AM
2 Comments:
They live in the shadows because they are criminals!
Ugh.
I wish the Pres. would give me a little credit and quit talking down to me!
It really was a poorly communicated, politically motivated, weak-kneed, "the horse is already out so closing the barn door to keep the rest of the livestock from escaping won't do all that much good", kind of speech that I've grown to expect from Dubya.
"No leadership here, look elsewhere, sorry folks I've too much pandering to do..."
Moderates masquerading as conservatives are almost as irritating as liberals masquerading as moderates. McCain vs. Hilary Gawd almighty those two might even drive me to vote Nader!
At least with him I would know what I was getting, an honest to god commie!
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