Looks like Bush failed to please even his greatest supporters tonight.

"President Bush doesn't have many chances left to salvage his second term. After tonight, he might not have any."

Hindrocket

"President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive "guest worker"/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby. A few weeks ago, Bush's Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance of Get Tough Theater with a series of politically timed immigration raids...which, as I predicted, simply resulted in more catch and release of illegal aliens nationwide.

This new last-minute stunt to sprinkle National Guard troops on the border--temporarily, of course, to appease Mexican President Vicente Fox--is more transparent than the Scotch tape used to hold together our dilapidated border fences. (That's only a slight exaggeration.)

For all the new tough talk, these additional troops will be barred from actually doing what needs to be done: guarding the border. President Bush is already bowing and scraping to Mexico over the plan before he's even officially announced it."

Malkin

"There were really no surprises in tonight's presidential address. The same old rhetoric he has been spewing for the past 5 years of not being able to deport illegal aliens, making them legal and rather than build a wall we'll spend 50 times as much on technology that has proven worthless.

I'll post a more in depth entry soon, but one thing I was personally offended by -- and any legal resident or veteran should be -- was Bush's story about a soldier of Mexican descent, Guadalupe Denogean, that was wounded in Iraq. He starts the speech off that this issue should not be dealt with in an emotional way and then he spends the entire speech talking about illegal alien families and how poor they are and legal residents who join the military like Guadalupe Denogean and how he wanted to gain citizenship.

Guadalupe Denogean chose a legal path to citizenship. He served in the military, as do millions of US citizens. To somehow make the immigration issue about the war in Iraq and veterans that have been wounded is shameful."

Digger

"Bush needed to throw some red meat to the staunch anti-illegal-immigration elements, but he decided to cheap out. The meat he found was all fat and gristle, so it tastes good and will keep some chewing for a while, but it will ultimately prove frustrating, unsatisfying, and downright unhealthy. His grand initiative is full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing."
Jay Tea

The Base aint at all happy... Do you believe in Karma?

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Posted by: Jay Tea at May 19, 2006 05:19 AM