Bush Takes On Opponents of Immigration Deal

by Jim Rutenburg - May 29th, 2007 - The New York Times

President Bush today accused opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat it in Congress, and took on his own conservative political base as he did so.

“If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill,” Mr. Bush said this afternoon at a training center for border enforcement agents located in this town in Georgia’s southeastern corner. “That’s empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our citizens.”

Right Mr. President. All us conservatives are "vigilantes" who try to "frighten" America. There is no possibility we are patriots who don't owe political favors to "fat cat" contributors who love cheap labor for their factories and stores.

This one issue is the most compelling proof of how out of touch with Americans George W. Bush really is. It is also the one issue on which it is easiest to accept the left wing view of his simultaneous duplicity and stupidity. This is an amnesty bill. Saying it isn't doesn't make it so. It just creates more contempt for Bush.

He is not going to win any friends by attacking his base. He is simply going to drive his favorability numbers even lower.

However the best line of all in this public dialogue came in response to the BOOING by Mexicans when Miss USA was onstage in the Miss Universe contest being held there. Michelle Malkin ridiculed the booing by suggesting "Next, they'll tell us the mob at the Miss Universe pageant was simply doing the booing Americans won't do." You can read the entire article here.