The Gaffe Patrol spots a bogey

Washington Times ^ | 12 june 07 | Wes Pruden

[rellimpank]

Something's bustin' out all over for George W. Bush, and it ain't June. The president is excused if he's beginning to think he's Rodney Dangerfield. Except in Albania, he just don't get no respect. The collapse of immigration "reform" legislation in the Senate, which Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority, calls "the Bush immigration bill," is a bitter disappointment for the president. But it says a lot as well about the collapse of the Kennedy clout. Nobody worked harder to impose this monstrosity than the senator from Massachusetts, one of the masters of manipulating the Senate

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!

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U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121

White House comments: (202) 456-1111

Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep

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[NonValueAdded]

ROFL ... GREAT piece by Wesley Pruden. It should calm the tempest in the teapot but I suspect it won’t. Still, he nailed it and points out that GWB acted as the quintessential American. And I am certain that the “17 .. 1976” was no gaffe but was absolutely in keeping with the spirit noted by Mr. Pruden. What else should an American Presdent say to the Monarch of the British Empire (sans one rather large colony they once held)? Skillfully done, Mr. President!

[sirchtruth]

Bush has to know this is the nail if the coffin with conservatives, and his base. Does he figure he's got no support anyway som he might as well go for it?

It looks like Bush's Compassionate "Conservatism" turned into Compassionate "Amnestism."

[NonValueAdded]

No argument there but the immigration bill is simply introduction to the main theme of the article, the alleged gaffes of protocol. I fully support the President on the latter and wholeheartedly oppose him on the former. Pruden’s article is not an immigration article, so let’s not make this an immigration thread.

[sirchtruth]

Pruden’s article is not an immigration article, so let’s not make this an immigration thread.

OK, let's not make this thread about immigration, let's make it a Bush is a bleeding heart moderate, who is telling his base to essentially go screw themselves!

I support Bush as President still, but his clout with conservatism is over! All of us who have supported him and prayed for him over these years, defending against valid arguments from libertarians to independents, and then he turns around and diss's his base by ignoring us, and goes on to try and hoodwink people into beleive this POS legislation just hasn't been understood by those who oppose it, is out of his mind and does not deserve any longer to be supported by those who elected him!

He is totally committed to abandon the majority of conservative thought!

[raybbr]

From the article:

This is trivial in the real world, where the president and several Democrats, including Teddy Kennedy, spent considerable political capital trying to enact an immigration "reform" bill that nobody else wants. The president is said to be ever more concerned about his "legacy" and his Democratic allies' lust for all those Hispanic votes. The rest of us want first to close the border, continuing to furiously bleed Mexicans 24/7, before we talk about what to do about the 12, or 15, or 20 million illegals already among us. Mickey Mouse could understand that, so why not the pols?

You said:

...so let’s not make this an immigration thread.

Huh?

[raybbr]

I support Bush as President still, but his clout with conservatism is over!

Can we, looking back now, ever say Bush was a conservative? Really?

He pushed a couple of conservative initiatives but he has mainly sidled up to Kennedy and even Clinton so often that I don't think history will show him to ever have been a conservative.

At first all his cooperation with liberals was presented as presidential stategery. Now I believe it never was strategery but what he really wants - neo liberalism.

[hsalaw]

Pruden’s article is not an immigration article, so let’s not make this an immigration thread.

You're asking the impossible. Even the "Paris Hilton Is Stupid" threads are turned into immigration threads. FreeRepublic is, for the time being, a one-trick pony.

[Savage Beast]

"...the collapse of the Kennedy clout. Nobody worked harder to impose this monstrosity than the senator from Massachusetts, one of the masters of manipulating the Senate.

"But it's the president who's getting the Bronx cheers..."

Bush in is freefall from the respect of the American people through disapproval and now into contempt.

Kennedy is beneath contempt.

[SlowBoat407]

You're asking the impossible. Even the "Paris Hilton Is Stupid" threads are turned into immigration threads. FreeRepublic is, for the time being, a one-trick pony.

As long as it's not a one-trick mule being used to transport illegals over the border. (Best hijack I could do on short notice)

[NonValueAdded]

as long as it’s not silky :) yeah, I know :(

[sirchtruth]

At first all his cooperation with liberals was presented as presidential stategery. Now I believe it never was strategery but what he really wants - neo liberalism.

I really don't think I can disagree with this! Time after time he's proven to have an insistant Moderate to Rino stance on these issues. Even on the WOT he's basically fought it with a P.C. perspective.

We have so much work to do to get this Party back to it's conservative roots!

I feel basically hoodwinked by Bush's compassionate conservatism, because I thought it was just a new tone, not a bleeding heart moderate cry! I should have known!

[Savage Beast]

You can count on the Left--such as the Neanderthals who write for the Guardian--to concern themselves with appearances, indifferent to substance.

To the rest of us, Bush's--or anyone's--style is beside the point.

He has refused to enforce the laws of the U.S., despite his oath and responsibility to do so, and has allowed Illegal Immigration to become a serious national crisis.

He has expanded the federal budget, spending the money of working Americans like a drunken sailor.

He has failed to protect our Border Agents and to allow them to do their job.

He has failed to nullify the Supreme Court's absurd Eminent Domain decision.

Through utter foolishness, he handed the U.S. Congress to the dangerous, decadent Democrat Party in 2006 and placed Congress and the Presidency in jeopardy in 2008.

And now he has attempted to foist on the American people an "immigration bill" 108 pages long, the substance of which nobody apparently knows, including Bush; apparently engineered by Teddy Kennedy, a man whom no responsible person should trust; that will change the United States drastically and forever; that will almost certainly empower the dangerous, decadent Democrat Party and send the U.S.A. down the same path to destruction that Western Europe has taken; and that, among other things, will add millions of people to the already almost bankrupt American entitlement programs such as Social Security.

All matters of SUBSTANCE!

If this is not the ultimate of irresponsibility, it's worse: the ultimate of treachery!

This is why the American people have changed from respectful to furious.

It has nothing to do with protocal or gaffes or appearances or "style"--something that the mindless, shallow, decadent, stupid Left cannot understand.

Note tagline.

[SuziQ]

Pope Benedict, a pontiff who is more concerned with substantial issues of faith, did not seem to think that the president offered him insult. Only semiliterate reporters, ever eager to pick fights for someone else, did that. That's just what the Gaffe Patrol does.

Heh, just as I thought,and stated on the thread, when this was first reported.