Brokeback Cancun: Apparently our Illiegal Immigration buddies didn’t share with Canada’s Harper the White Shirt/Khaki memo. Where’s Manolo when you need him!
While I do take issue with some of Lou Dobbs’ postions on the issues, he is clearly one of the leading voices when it comes to the disaster of illegal immigration. Fortunately with Tivo, I’m able to watch Brit Hume, and then I scan the Dobbs program on CNN.
Reporting from Cancun where President Bush is meeting with Mexico’s Fox and Canada’s Harper, Dobbs does not mince words about the president, illegal immigration and the WoT. Here’s your snippet, but do indeed read the whole thing:
The United States is challenged as never before in the global war on radical Islamist terror. And yet, our borders and ports remain insecure four and a half years after the 9/11 attacks. Our lack of border and port security is nothing less than a failure of the U.S. government and its policies. While we spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the war in Iraq, we spend next to nothing to protect our own borders.
President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Harper will discuss border security in terms of the perimeter of our three nations — regional security perimeter, if you will. Such a concept, in my opinion, has no merit whatsoever while the United States cannot defend its own borders.
And get these Reuters headlines:
Bush reassures Mexico’s Fox on immigration reform
Bush seeks support from Mexican Fox on immigration
And here may I say, the president is ‘reassuring’ and seeking support of the wrong person. Last time I checked, Vicente Fox isn’t a US citizen, and cannot vote in November. It would serve President Bush to not only reassure us, but recognize our will on this issue. He will eventually have to accept that we will prevail, not Vicente Fox, no matter how charmed they are by each other in the same outfit.
Urggggg! Does he, the president really believe that Fox will share responsibility with border control? Come on, give me a break!
Must be nice to take a vacation to Cancun in belief that it will appear as doing something worth while.
Two corporate carpet baggers, Bush & Fox.
I have supported W through the whole Iraq business, and still do. But when he does this stuff with Fox, I am reduced to the same spluttering rage that afflicts my liberal bluestate neighbors about him all the time. If I were in the mood to censure him for anything, it would be gross dereliction of duty in failing to secure the borders against Mexico. He’s a lucky man, ol W is, that his opponents, the Democrat alternative, are so so much worse. But the big spender of compassionate conservatism is no prize, most especially here. (I have refrained from the use of profanity and personal attacks, in compliance with the blog comment rules, but you can bet your sweet bippy I am cascading them in my head as I write this!!!!)
I am throwing out my Republican voter registration. I have completely lost faith in the Republicans, and particularly George Bush, over this immigration issue. Since breaking the law in mass numbers seems to be acceptable in this country why don’t we decide in mass numbers not to file (or pay) our income tax on April 17? Put what you owe in savings and don’t file your return until the last extension deadline in October. Can’t we refuse to send our tax dollars? Will they ignore us like they ignore the illegal border crossers? Can someone come up with a great protest for the rank and file taxpayer/voter?