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Bush: Ideology got in way of immigration reform
San Antonio Express-News ^ | 11/11/2010 | Gary Martin

Posted on 11/12/2010 9:24:08 AM PST by SwinneySwitch

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Amazing! I thought September 11, 2001 and unsecured borders had something to do with the failure to pass an amnesty bill, President Bush.
1 posted on 11/12/2010 9:24:14 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
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To: SwinneySwitch

Miss him yet?


2 posted on 11/12/2010 9:25:42 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: SwinneySwitch

Maybe Americans have seen this before and didn’t want the same load of shit sold in 1986?


3 posted on 11/12/2010 9:25:45 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: SwinneySwitch

Clinton likes his book, & now this tired ....
I’ll wait `til its at Goodwill in paperback.


4 posted on 11/12/2010 9:28:04 AM PST by tumblindice ("Palestine"--what's that? Is that like `Erehwon'?)
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To: SwinneySwitch
granted citizenship to illegal immigrants who paid fines and learned English

That is not reform -- that is appeasement.

5 posted on 11/12/2010 9:30:46 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: SwinneySwitch

It’s that bleeding heart liberal “compassionate” part of Bush that is beyond redemption.


6 posted on 11/12/2010 9:31:00 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Actually, he spelled it wrong - its Idiology not Ideology and it was HIS, not ours.

No I don’t miss him - never did. He gave us the moron in the White House now.

I heard part of his interview last night talking to O’Reilly and once again, he confirmed my prior analysis of him, he was better than the alternatives - but only barely.


7 posted on 11/12/2010 9:34:25 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
I used to wish W would express himself more articulately.

Now I wish he wouldn't.

8 posted on 11/12/2010 9:36:31 AM PST by skeeter
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To: SwinneySwitch
opposed guest worker programs needed for economic growth

There has been a Green Card (guest worker)
program for over sixty years to my knowledge.

I knew of it sixty years ago while I was growing up in West Texas.

We don't need Amnesty when a green card program is all that is needed.

Either George is disingenuous or very slow and challenged.

But then again he and his daddy are carpetbaggers from Connecticut.


9 posted on 11/12/2010 9:38:16 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

When GW started do reelection commercials in Spanish that was a clue.

Wonder what he thinks about American Flags and Bicycles?


10 posted on 11/12/2010 9:41:12 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: SwinneySwitch

How about simply enforcing current immigration law and securing the border as opposed to comprehensive immigration reform. Seems pretty simple and not nearly so reactionary.

Now railing against idealogues, his statements that the bailout was needed to save the free market system and how he was hurt by Kanye West’s Katrina remarks this book paints a very unflattering picture of a leader lacking resolve in many areas. I guess that constant exposure to Rove had a very debilitating effect.


11 posted on 11/12/2010 9:41:26 AM PST by bereanway (I'd rather have 40 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters)
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To: SwinneySwitch; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...

Ping!


12 posted on 11/12/2010 9:42:43 AM PST by HiJinx (I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
The answer to border control is quite simple and straightforward. Militarize the border and punish anyone who hires illegals. The real problem lies with courage. No one has the guts to put American sovereignty ahead of offending Hispanics (and losing their votes.)

What pisses me off is that we wouldn't be in this position had prior Administrations dealt with this issue the way it should have been dealt with. Thanks to our inaction we now have a huge Hispanic voting bloc that is reflexively opposed to ANY immigration restriction, and it has the politicians scared to death.

We've dug our own hole, now we're paying the consequences.

13 posted on 11/12/2010 9:43:06 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Now taking suggestions for a new screen name.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Listen Jr.:
Go back to Crawford and chop some Mesquite or kill a snake or two.

You are an enigma to us.

You rightly drop kicked the Taliban, idiotic 7th century sand dune hicks if ever there was one.

You excecuted the expressed will of the United States to finish Saddam’s regime and end his aspirations. Thankfully his sons, who suffered from sharing the same disconnected brain stem also perished.

You gave us tax cuts and few people have benefited from dying this year so their families wouldn’t have to pay an outrageous death tax.

You gave us Justice Roberts and it appears he is ruling correctly.

Sadly, you also gave TARP, never once vetoed a bloated budget and a few other items of consternation to those who believe the government smokes our dollars stuffed with wacky weed.

So stop putting your foot in your mouth and enjoy your retirement.

BTW, Laura looks lovely.


14 posted on 11/12/2010 9:44:23 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Two more things that irk me:

Sarbanes- Oxley was a travesty on companies and their employees who hoped to get rich from an IPO, which sadly because of SOX we have damn few of.

Patriot Act- This frickin’ scam violate our rights in many instances or steps just across the line with one foot on both sides. Moreover, it’s just plain un-American.


15 posted on 11/12/2010 9:47:38 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Shut up and sing, George.


16 posted on 11/12/2010 9:48:51 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, but that means you have to track them all down and aren’t the open borders people against this?

And those who don’t learn english and/or pay a fine are still illegal immigrants, and so will we just ignore them as we have the past 20 years?

It makes no sense.


17 posted on 11/12/2010 9:49:38 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: SwinneySwitch
The GOP establishment view at the time was that amnesty was an inevitability. Democrats would eventually regain control and orchestrate a much broader amnesty. But a Republican amnesty would be more restrictive and would bring Latinos into the GOP camp.
18 posted on 11/12/2010 9:51:03 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Vendome
Go back to Crawford and chop some Mesquite or kill a snake or two.

Crawford was a political prop. He lives in Dallas now.

BTW, Laura looks lovely.

Laura Bush is a pro-abortion and pro gay marriage Democrat.

19 posted on 11/12/2010 9:55:50 AM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

According to the Mexican president Vincente Fox at the time of 9/11 Bush was going to throw the borders wide open in preparation for an EU like NAU. But those planes hit the world trade center
and that made such a move politically impossible.


20 posted on 11/12/2010 9:57:16 AM PST by ckilmer (Phi)
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