Bush’s Deal: Border Cash for Amnesty

by Amanda Carpenter - June 15th, 2007 - Townhall.com

In an effort to resurrect the Senate’s immigration bill, President Bush has agreed to spend $4.4 billion to increase border security based on the premise that money would be repaid later with penalties and fines from illegal aliens seeking legal status.

Recognizing his personality traits, I am not surprised that Bush will not accept the defeat of the Amnesty bill. Over 80% of the American people oppose this bill and Bush could not care less. Whatever you think about his character, no one can deny that he keeps fighting for what he wants without regard for polls.

Leave it to the tone deaf, stubborn and vindictive George W. Bush to "propose" to spend American tax dollars for something that should already be done (protecting the border) as a deal in order to get his fervent wish to be the President who turned America into a Spanish speaking nation. Bush Jr. thinks that if he is the man who opens the floodgates to destroy American culture and turn it into Aztec North, that a hundred years from now he will be a hero to the citizens of that future time. A legacy for history is all that he cares about now.

The one thing that you can be sure of is that George W. Bush could not care less what the people of America want, either democrats or Republicans. He has successfully misled for so long he thinks his opinion is all that counts. Since he was Governor of Texas it has been his track record to reach out to his enemies and crush the Republican "base" again and again. No matter how many times his enemies turn on him, he forgives them. Just look at the insults he has endured from Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, et al. He never has a problem with their insults. He keeps making deals with them, especially Kennedy.

He never forgives the "base" though. He knows that he can revile them and call them vigilantes and most of them will not care. This strategy has usually worked for him. He is confident that he can con the Republican "base" whenever he needs to and they will come running back to him. Who can doubt him? With all the betrayal he has practiced in his Presidency, 62% of the Republican Party still supports him.

As regular readers here know, I am not one of the 62%.