Posted on 06/08/2007 12:18:29 PM PDT by jebeier
Perhaps this whole Amnesty business is a sublime and supremely cunning strategery.
Now, I know you all may want to dismiss the possibility out of hand, but bear with me for a moment...
By promoting this bill, in one fell swoop President Bush has managed to:
a) Get almost the entire Democrat caucus in the Senate to come out in favor of Amnesty, which is very unpopular,
b) Forever link his old arch-nemesis, John McCain, to this very unpopular bill,
c) Get somewhere close to 80% of Americans to oppose Ted Kennedy, and
d) Kill the possibility of comprehensive immigration reform for the forseeable future.
And all it has cost him is a few points in the public opinion polls, which is irrelevant because he will never run for office again.
Now the Republican field (except John McCain) can run against the President of their own party in 2008 by opposing him on this issue. The 800 pound Iraqi gorrilla has been replaced by a 1600 pound illegal immigration gorilla. And the vast majority of Republicans (besides John McCain) are in a much better position to debate on this issue.
Sarkozy just won in France by running against Chirac, who was the head of his own party. Perhaps the White House has taken that lesson to heart.
If it is strategery, it is exceptionally subtle and devious, and would be a masterpiece. But they really couldn't possibly be that clever, could they?
Or could they? One thing we know about President Bush is that he has a long memory and likes to get even with his enemies. Look at the seven Republican Senators who are going to come out on the down side of this deal:
Graham (R-SC)- Led efforts to extend habeus corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees. Member of Gang of 14
Hagel (R-NE) - Led charges against Iraq, Patriot Act, Rumsfeld, the Surge and Karl Rove
Lugar (R-IN) - Led efforts against intelligence operations against foreign agents in the US
Martinez (R-FL) - Leaked the Schiavo memo, but otherwise does not fit the pattern
McCain (R-AZ) - Back stabbings too numerous to count
Specter (R-PA) - Ditto. From Scottish Law onward
Voinovich (R-OH) - Led charge against John Bolton and the Surge
All of these Senators are going to be hurt by taking a position on the wrong side of this issue, and all of them, except Mel Martinez, have been thorns in President Bushs side for a long, long time.
One has to ask oneself, cui bono? Who benefits? I submit to you that the biggest beneficiary of this debacle is none other than President George W. Bush himself.
Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter could definitely run against President Bush on this issue.
No matter what, the next election will not have George W. Bush on the ballot. By giving the Republicans something to run against, President Bush has done a great service to his Party.
Whether or not that was intentional is the question.
I dunno, I guess it could happen but I like your thinking.
The original quote way by Napoleon. I always wondered about that.
Maybe I’m over-reaching. I just don’t think stupidity is adequate to explain this debacle.
Personally, I don’t seem what is wrong with Vigilantes. The A-5 was beautiful aeroplane...
Oh, right.
I still don’t see what is wrong with Vigilantes. If gub’mint won’t enforce the law, somebody has gotta do it, right?
He knew that the Democrats didn't control a majority of the votes if the Senators had any opportunity to discuss it.
What surprised him in the end is that he couldn't even find a majority on a cloture vote ~ Harry Reid looked positively surprised at that outcome!
The Dems are weak so it's time to strike.
Anyway, I gotta run. I’ll check back in tonight...
Striking is good. I like striking...
And what revealed that the Democrats were so weak? Hmmmmmm?
STATEGERY!
No, I don't believe it's possiblistic.
Now you've got it.
That is to say it's a KOINKYDINK!!!, but a highly serendipitous one at that.
Rove's still scratching his head and "W" wonders today if Putin tried to poison him at dinner yesterday.
Whud’ya gonna’ say for yourself next week.... when Bush starts leaning on wobbly Republicans to breath life back into that turd of a bill?
She looks creepy in that picture.
I have had the very same thought...gwb has wanted this forever, but to openly call the american people names who are against this....i thought this was a way to rally the base, and hopefully prevent 2006 from happening in 2008..
Was calling his entire base of loyal patriotic Conservatives a bunch of unamerican bigots also part of the cunning strategery?
Sorry I dont buy it.
Bush wanted this abominable bill real bad, and he still wants it. He doesnt give a rats tutu about the future, he just wants to placate his amigos in Mexico and blast the core of the Republican base who stood by him during the entire Iraq disaster.
He has lost me forever.
Um, No. Sarkozy ran against Royal. Chirac supported Sarkozy.
I actually hope you’re right. I’m not a Bush basher.
A few points in the opinion polls, and his ENTIRE base.
And with the way he pushed this bill so publicly and fiercely, he is just as tied to illegal immigration as his good buddy Ted.
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