Posted on 06/11/2007 8:24:08 AM PDT by nonsporting
President Bush insists if we just shut up, blindly listen to him and support his so-called "comprehensive immigration reform plan," we can solve the problem "once and for all."
I have a better idea.
Since Bush has, for nearly seven years, deliberately, consciously and overtly refused to uphold his sworn constitutional duty to execute and administer the duly enacted border and immigration laws already on the books, he should be disqualified from participating in any further negotiations regarding new border and immigration laws.
Doesn't that make sense?
Why would we turn to a scofflaw president, one who, out of some misguided ideological conviction, habitually and repeatedly reneged on his oath of office, with regard to immigration issues, to solve a problem he himself exacerbated beyond anyone's ability to imagine or comprehend?
I think this is a very important principle upon which all Americans should stand.
On this issue, Bush betrayed America. He undermined the Constitution. He violated his oath of office. He forsook his sworn duty. His reckless policies of non-enforcement of the law of the land contributed massively to the crisis the nation faces.
He must simply not be allowed to participate in creating new laws designed to clean up his own mess.
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Looking for Big Picture. Not here.
Maybe Joseph Farah should run for President. (/sarcasm) ;)
The most schizophrenic administration in history.
Taking Jihad to the Jihadists in Iraq was brilliant.
Opening up the border to the Jihadists (does anybody really believe they won’t be part of the stampede?) and throwing good BP agents in prison for long sentences for doing their jobs is incredibly evil or stupid (I don’t know which).
A real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this president of ours.
Best description to date.
I assume Farah also wants to disqualify others such as Ted Kennedy.
The U.S. attorney who successfully prosecuted the agents said the man they were chasing didn’t actually have a gun, shooting him in the back violated his civil rights, the agents didn’t know for a fact that he was a drug smuggler, and they broke Border Patrol rules about discharging their weapons and preserving a crime scene.
And the defense..........
How cozy was Border Patrol with smuggler?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54199
Defending our borders is the minimum we ask of a President. If Bush can't do that, he has deserted his base - and the country.
If Bush can’t do that, he has deserted his base - and the country
Yawnssssssssss
No one disqualified Reagan from the debate when he allowed 5 million illegals amnesty.
Sounds like he should be impeached?
On this issue, Bush betrayed America. He undermined the Constitution. He violated his oath of office.
The truth is we could make the same statement about previous Admin’s including Ronald Reagan’s,however GW has made tearing the southern border down a priority and US citizens don’t like it !!!
The bill that was introduced, and now lies moribund in the Senate, was far too ambitious an undertaking when it was first brought up. By trying to provide an appeal to people who were totally against some of its provisions, by adding other provisions that were totally unacceptable to those who were in favor of the first set of provisions, then offering no way to bridge these differences, doomed the bill from the first.
The bill should be separated into its constituent parts, and each part considered individually and on its own merits, not lumped as a rider on the part that could gain favor with one faction or another.
The rationalization that the bill could, or should, be passed by a rushed vote taken late at night, makes the policy that recommended its quick adoption somewhat suspect, if only because it establishes and perpetuates the belief tht some law is better than no law.
But it is not as if there were no existing law concerning every provision of this bill. No law means anything, if there is no will to enforce it. Why pass another law that will simply be ignored in the future?
Apparently President Bush differs from the authors opinion. So who, I wonder, does the author propose to “debate” with?
Single issue immigration hacks have been chanting so loudly on this for 6 years, and when an actual debate comes to face them, they simply disqualify any who disagree with them.
WHO does that sound like?
Wishful thinking. Bush is president for another year and a half unless the Democrats impeach him, and if they did, it wouldn’t be for this.
The best we can do for the next year and a half is to block this bill, but putting the pressure on congress and persuading them that if they vote for it, they will be thrown out of office in disgrace in the next election.
Then the next step is to elect someone who will enforce the law, for the first time in about 20 years. It’s not just Bush, it’s not just clinton, this goes back to Jimmy Carter and before.
The only hope of doing anything about it is to convince congress, both Democrat and Republican, that Americans want the law enforced, and to elect a president with the resolve to do it.
It’s not complicated. First and foremost, we need to punish anyone who employs illegals. Second, we need to cut off all government aid. Third, we need to cut off federal aid to states and localities that provide “sanctuary” to aliens and other benefits such as free schooling, instate college tuition rates not available to legal citizens from other states, and free healthcare beyond real emergencies.
The blacks and the unions have as much to lose by amnesty as anyone else, and if the Democrats don’t want to stand up for these people, then the Republicans should offer to do so. Legal hispanics, too, have much to lose by this flood of lawbreakers into the country.
We need a strong president who is pledged to protect our country. And we need a congress that is willing to back him. That is what we need to work for. In the meantime, the most vital thing we can do is to kill any and all immigration bills that point toward amnesty in any way, shape, or form, regardless of noble sounding provisions that will never be enforced.
This article is so over the top;, it is useless.
Is this the same see nothing, do nothing policy that has been passed down from Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton and now Bush Jr? Last chart I saw he hasn’t allowed anymore than the previous administrations.
It is heartbeaking to hear that Ramos has lost 40 ponds (totally beyond Dachau!} and has been suffering in isolation with broken vertebrae for months!!!Bush and Sutton and Cordine ought to be paying the Ramos, Compean, Hernandez, and the latest border patrol agent who merely reported a typo on a document that was enabling him to adopt a sister’s children and was thrown into prison by Sutton!!!
The sad part about this whole border agent issue is that it was a jury of their peers that convicted and sentenced them.
And he half-[butt]ed the part he got right...
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