I agree entirely. What is absolutely crazy about Bush's immigration stance is that it represents a real threat to the GOP's continued hold on the House - so in his zeal to circumvent the House GOP to get his guest worker program, Bush could well trigger events that lead to Dem control of the House - and his subsequent possible impeachment. That is what is so bizzare about this situation, IMO - what in the hell is so important about a guest worker program that Bush is willing to stake the GOP House on getting it through.
Yep! You know, Vice President Cheney finds it very difficult, I think, to resist gay orthrodoxy on marriage, civil unions and the like. This is understandable given that his daughter feels she has a personal stake in the issue. Were Dick Cheney to disagree with her, would she consider him to be a bigot? I don't know, but I doubt it's anything a father would feel comfortable about risking.
President Bush's nephew, George P. Bush, also feels he has a personal stake in an issue--- namely this issue of Mexican illegal immigration. I wonder how much President Bush mught have been influenced by George P. or George P.'s mother? It would be easy to agree with Mary Cheney or George P.'s mother (or perhaps Jeb) on either issue, respectively, so as to avoid any chance of being thought of as a bigot... especially if this was done before George W. Bush or Dick Cheney were elected to offices where policies on these issues mattered. Then, by the time they did reach such offices, their opinions on said issues might have hardened.
Just my bit two cent psycho analysis! Shelby Steele thinks this sort of dynamic governs a lot of minority/ racial issues (like Affirmative Action)--- the majority grants inncoence/moral authority in the form of victimhood to the minority, while the minority provides innocence to the majority by allowing the majority member to not think of himself or be thought of as a bigot.