Finally when the President looks around the room and takes stock of those who are in the fight on his side does he feel good? Is he comfortable working with Senator Kennedy?…

Positioning the Guard on the border without the power of arrest or detention is simply placing a Bandaid on a sucking chest wound. Wasting more taxpayer money when it could be spent on highways to no where!

The border has to be secured NOW. If militarizing the damn thing is the only way, then LOCK AND LOAD! As for the illegals already here, they aren’t going anywhere. But if you stop giving them the store, educating their kids, giving them free medical and dental, housing, etc, they might just GO THE HELL HOME!

Tancredo in’08

I sent the same response to my representatives (Durbin & Obama — yeh, that’ll help).

Tancredo in’08!

I kind of feel sorry for the man even though I believe he is 99.5% wrong on this particular issue.

It is obviously wearing on him even more than the other significant issues of his Presidency…. Perhaps because he knows he is wrong and he realizes he is not only’stabbing his base in the back’ but also a high percentage of the ‘loyal opposition’ on the Illegal Alien Invasion problem.

President Bush IS supporting amnesty, (just like we expected), but without the courage to call it amnesty. A small cash payment and go ‘to the back of the line for citizenship”….. But these people are expert at ‘taking cuts’ so I expect those that find some advantage to getting citizenship (Medicare, Social Security etc.) so we can expect to see them, in the near future, in the FRONT of the line, WITH 20 – 30 million of THEIR EXTENDED FAMILES, who are still currently in in their countries of origin.

The current plans to send the National Guard to the border are a double insult; They are an insult to the conservatives demanding action (but getting only a pretense of action). And they are an insult to the National Guard members and their families… President Bush is planning on deploying them to run errands and do maintainence tasks for Border Patrol EXECUTIVES and do construction work that is more in the venue of the Army Corps Of Engineers or private contractors….

(Speaking of that, I wonder if they are going to have to do environmental impact statements, archaeological surveys and all the other crud that are normally required by the government and the lawyers to build their little bits of actual, physical fence and the larger, pretend bits of ‘virtual, high tech fence’.)

{As a guy who spent his early career getting into places that he wasn’t supposed to go [in the service of Uncle Sam] and later got paid big bucks by government and private industry for PREVENTING other people from getting into places out in the middle of nowhere that they weren’t supposed to go; I can tell you with some authoritythat a ‘virtual fence’ is a ludicrous idea unless you have real people with real powers of enforcement within five minutes response time}.

I was kind of hoping that President Bush had ’seen the light’ because I still support him on 60% of his endeavors… But on this subject, he lived up to my expectations again… This time as an expected disappointment.

I agree with you, though, that we need to vote in another party at the local levels rather than Republicans. Once they establish themselves locally we can vote them in nationally.

Who cares if we have a Republican Party that is only slightly further to the right than Nancy Pelosi?

I’m not saying I’ll sit out necessarily, but I’m definitely disgruntled and had better see something more at the end of the day than this ridiculous offering.

Look, I’m a conservative. I’m also a working man. I know that corporations are the backbone of our economy – but I also know that when they sell out on immigration, they sell out EVERYONE who works for a living – liberal or conservative. And President Bush, it is by now very clear, values corporations over people.

It pains, pains, pains me to say this – cause the liberals were saying it first, and it makes me throw up a little in my mouth to admit it – but after seeing the president’s performance tonight can there really be any doubt?

What is unique about the guest worker program and the “back of the line” sentence they will receive, is that the illegal immigrant can stay in the country, work, use government services just as he did the day before the bill passed….

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

Would that make you happier?

We must SOUNDLY defeat the liberal Democrats before we can start voting 3rd party. Start voting Constitution Party at the local levels and then work it up to the state and federal level slowly.

I’m fit to be tied! 6000 more troops for a 1200 mile border? Why bother? Does he think we’re all stupid?

Why not militarize the border? They’re shooting at the Border Patrol from Mexico and from our side too. If Mexico is our friend and ally, we are in real trouble.

Thank you for this great site, Michelle!

I voted for Bush twice. I sent RNC money.

Not anymore. Not unless they start listening to their party.

George… You need to stop listening to your staff and start listening to your boss, the American people.

Michelle you totally rock!

Keep up the good work.

Jason

I am extremely angry.

Although it would be easy for me to give up and say that I will no longer support the Republicans I know that that cannot be my reaction.

The conservative agenda has come a long way in the last 20 years. As much as we wish for things to finally come to fruition… we must not lose heart when we don’t get everything we want.

We have a long way to go still. We must remember that this is a war. It always has been. We constantly need to fight and stand up for we believe in.

Although it will be a slow process, time will pass and slowly, if we don’t give up, our values will begin to permeate those in leadership and more importantly those younger leaders coming up the ranks.

Continue to build the base. Our future lies with the up and coming leaders from this movement.

I have great hope for the future.

Sorry about the rambling.

Jason (a future leader)

Bush swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Suggesting we follow the rule of law by not enforcing it, is not protecting or defending the Constitution.

Since when did it become policy to pander to the leader of another country? When did the President of Mexico become more important than the American citizens?

Why didn’t Bush come out and tell us a story tonight about a American born citizen who joined the military and fought for his country?

I don’t know what he’s selling but I’m not buying it. FYI… I have ALWAYS voted ONLY Republican. I will never vote Liberal but I will vote for any Independent against any Republican who puts others above US citizens.

I voted for Bush twice. If he could run again, I’d vote against him… twice!

6 million? So why in hell is it impossible to get rid of 12 million? Shuck and jive BULL****.

Either he lied before or he’s lying now.