Mr. President: Defend our Borders!!!
Posted on 05/09/2006 12:28:11 PM PDT by TBP
Is President Bush done or can he make a comeback? A new Gallup poll has the president's job approval rating at just 31 percent, the lowest ever for him. Only 52 percent of conservatives approve of the job Mr. Bush is doing and that's his base. Only four presidents have scored lower approval ratings since the Gallup poll began tabulating Oval Office performance: Truman, Nixon, Carter and Bush the elder. The question now is: Can Bush the younger regain the confidence of the American people?
Now there's no clear answer to that question. But one thing is certain: Mr. Bush can only turn things around himself. No surrogate can do it and the president must speak directly to the folks because the press isn't going to help him. We all know that.
Here's what the president must do right now:
Go to the Southern border and announce concrete steps to stop the millions of people trying to illegally cross into this country. Whether it's a wall or the military or a massive deployment of Border and Homeland Security agents, securing the border is a must if the president wants to win back conservative support.
Hold monthly press conferences about Iraq only. Open with specific remarks on what progress is being made and answer all questions directly. Demonstrate he has the Iraq situation under control.
Appeal to the oil companies to hold the line on pricing and quickly develop ethanol. We're fighting a War on Terror in this country. Profiteering on a vital necessity cannot be allowed. Get tough with big oil, Mr. President.
Stop the spending madness. Cut back discretionary spending by 10 percent now by issuing an executive order. Push to make tax cuts permanent.
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But he is suffering from severe cranial-redctal inversion if he really thinks the oil companies are to blame for teh gasoline price situation.
Doesn't matter what the polls say, I am done with GWB, and any other Republican who does NOT want to enforce our immigration laws.
Flame on
yep, Bush and the rest of our Republican leaders don't get it that we want 100% conservatives in charge. We need leaders, not wimps and lately it seems our leaders seem to scared to do what we put them in office for.
Bush done? I pray he isn't and I pray that he changes before it is to late!
Mr. President: Defend our Borders!!!
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Bush has ample time to recover a win. All he has to do is end trade agreements that have not brought good paying jobs to America, complete his promised Israel Palestine two state peace solution, cut the cost of government, issue an EO requiring illegals to register as Republican voters, have Rumsfeld to do a shuck-n-jive press conference on how Iraq insurgents sticking this fingers in ink wells will bring the troops home before November and announce Mission Accomplished on the WOT and airport security lines are not needed. Don't give up yet conservatives.
LOL! And just where are those conservatives abandoning to, pray tell?
What will cost them in November is manipulation of the supposed votes--which was all decided beforehand in Davos, Switzerland.
But Bush needs to do a lot to win back trust on immigration issues, and he's showing no sign of understanding what needs to be done. Case in point is the sudden crackdown on employers of illegals - which only happened when Bush started having trouble getting his guest worker program through the Senate.
So even if Bush went along with improving border security, he would have to prove to a lot of people that he was serious about the job, as opposed to just cracking down long enough to marshall support for his own agenda. And that, quite frankly, is going to be a tough sell.
He can make a big comeback if he loses the twin myths of "Religion of Peace" and "Work Americans Won't Do".
Beat up on Big Oil? Someone as ignorant and stupid as O'Reilly has no business lecturing anyone else about what to do.
did ya miss the last part of my post?
any other Republican who does NOT want to enforce our immigration laws.
"Appeal to the oil companies to hold the line on pricing and quickly develop ethanol. We're fighting a War on Terror in this country. Profiteering on a vital necessity cannot be allowed. Get tough with big oil, Mr. President."
Hmmmm. What about the law of supply and demand. This guy doesn't get it. Hawaii tried to inact price controls and it ended with prices per oil going higher.
No flame, but he's a typical right-moderate candidate. Gives us about 70% of what we want, judges in particular.
Compare and contrast with a Dim adminstration --- gay marriage, activist judges, trial lawyers, choking evironmental and employment regulations, HillaryCare(TM), surrender to terrorists, etc.
If Gore was president, we'd have never gone to Afganistan. We'd have shot a few missles into mud holes and then paid millions for the damage because we killed the ancient spotted dung bird and insulted muslim law.
They would take that money, taken a Paki nuke to Chicago and blown it up.
Yeah, no differance at all.
Comeback from where? He didn't go anyplace.
The securing of the borders is an absolute must.
All the sacrifice and work at rooting out terrorist around the globe will be for naught, if they can walk in across ANY border of the U.S.
Bush can turn it around, but he won't. He has lost almost all of his political capital. If he signs an Amnesty Bill, like he says he will, he will be toast with the conservatives.
I predict he will go done as the worst Republican President in the last 75 years except for Nixon.
Damn, I love it! Nice call!
What a novel idea...
The news today of the Customs(border patrol)supplying the mex guv with info on the minute men should silence the bushbots for good. This is a total outrage. I voted for him twice...stood by him even tho I dissagreed with a lot of the policies he set forth. But this is beyond anything I've ever heard.
Conservative folks need to ask themselves if this was Clinton doing the same thing, would they give him a pass.
Yep. The more things change, the more they stay the same! The media was relentlessly opposed to Reagan.
W wants open borders, or they would be closed.
To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
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223 posted on 05/03/2006 9:20:53 PM CDT by Jim Robinson
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Keep this a secret, President Reagan signed the biggest amnesty bill for illegal immigrants
How does he unspend the money he squandered?
He's a lame duck and if the dims get the house he's a cooked lame duck.
I'll keep posting the same reply to this same magazine cover. This cover came out just days before Reagan gave an Oval Office speech about Iran Contra where he admitted mistakes, which caused his ratings to pop above 50%. That cover has no value because Bush doesn't admit mistakes in speeches.
Right on!
A lot of conservatives are syaing they can no longer vote for Republicans due to the open borders policy, the entitlements, McCain-Feingold, the massive spending, and so many ohter things.
Words of gold!
The Democrats will ascend the throne in the next presidential election, as the Republican Party will have ceased to exist.
On May 1, 2010, the Chinese will take over Northern California, Mexico will get Texas, Arizona, N.Mexico and S. California. Cuber will get Florida and the other states will be taken over by Mobile Exxon and Halliburton.
BTW ... Who is Bill O'Reilly?
So were these people:
http://reformed-theology.org/jbs/books/insiders/part_2.htm
The John Birch Society.
I'm done with people who say they are conservatives but aren't wand ant to spend their time trashing GW. Bunch of pantywaists, we don't need them.
I am one of the conservative wh have abandoned the party. I will of course vote for conservatives but for moderates and rinos nothing.
Hoping you were here with that. : D.
How short our memories are.
Impeachment? Big deal. Clinton was impeached and one day wasn't any different from the next.
Bill is jealous of Tony.
Those people are not conservatives. They just make that claim.
PUT TROOPS ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER MR PRESIDENT!!!!
It's absurd to believe that it is perfectly justified sending our men and women 7200 miles across the ocean to some desert hellhole to die for 3rd worlders yet impossible to send them 200 miles south to the border to defend United State territory and citizens.
No political party will be getting my vote that thinks that way, D or R.
And I'll post my reply, which I asked OldFriend and onyx without getting an answer, which is to explain in what way Reagan recovered after March 1987.
He's remembered well now, and he became more popular in the final months of office, but I can't think of any domestic accomplishments between March 1987 and January 1989. His second term just ran out the clock--he's best remembered for what he accomplished in his first term.
This kind of "recovery" will not be pleasant.
But the fact you never mention is that according to Mark Levin who was in the WH at the time:
THE LAWS AGAINST EMPLOYERS HIRING THE NEWLY ARRIVED ILLEGALS WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE LEGISLATION AND WAS NEVER PROPERLY ENFORCED.
Bump for the Premature Legacy Know-Nothings.
Bush will not push anything through except his guest worker plan. He will allow a few token arrests and deportations.
However, it's not just a border issue with Bush. It goes deeper. His spots are not going to change. Ever. He sees himself as some sort of savior of the U.S.'s future through assimilation of Americans into the "new American".
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
I'm not worried about Bush's legacy, nor am I exercised about immigration. I'm concerned with what the next 32 months are going to look like and what we'll have to show for it.
So if a freeper wants the borders closed they are a troll?
But it did not happen!
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