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    Bush and Kennedy: Immigration issue makes them friends at ..

    Bush and Kennedy: Immigration issue makes them friends at last
    DALE McFEATTERS, Scripps Howard News Service
    Friday, June 1, 2007

    WASHINGTON -- President Bush had had enough. His last chance at another legacy legislative achievement, immigration reform, was in peril, and from his own people, conservative Republicans. He wasn't going to take it any more.

    At a training school for border agents, the president ripped into his own people for opposing his bill. Bush did so indirectly, so a guided tour through the speech may be in order.

    The opponents, he said, "haven't read the bill," a polite way of saying they're ignorant.

    They are opposing it with "empty political rhetoric." They're vacuous, too.

    They worry the bill "would make somebody else look good." They're selfish.

    They call it an amnesty bill. "That's empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our fellow citizens." And they lie.

    They "need the courage to go back to their districts" and fully explain the bill and then they need "the courage necessary" to enact it. They're more than likely cowards as well.

    OK, vote against it then "if you don't want to do what's right for America." They want al-Qaida to win.

    He accused opponents of immigration reform of using distortion and scare tactics "to frighten our citizens." That's exactly what the Democrats accused Bush of doing in 2004 and 2006 but, hey, it worked for him then and it might work for him now.

    Just as the campaign used to do, after Bush accused his opponents of being unpatriotic and un-American, a senior official approached reporters to say, "In no way was he questioning anyone's patriotism or desire to do what's right."

    To paraphrase an old expression, who are you going to believe? Me or your lying ears? After all, it's not President Bush's fault if the opponents of this measure are ignorant, selfish and dishonest, even if they are members of his own party and were once his most fervent supporters.

    You can't blame Bush for wondering about his choice of friends. Take some of the landmarks of his presidency.

    The Republicans never got around to making his tax cuts permanent when they had control of Congress and now the Democrats aren't going to.

    The Republicans are wavering on the Iraq war and 11 of them came down to the White House to tell him so. "Cut and run" is beginning to sound like a sensible strategy, maybe, rather than something to pound the Democrats with.

    The No Child Left Behind Act is up for renewal and suddenly the president's party is sounding like Republicans of old, grumbling about the federalization of a state responsibility and saddling the states with costly and cumbersome mandates.

    So who is on the president's side? On immigration, it's that arch liberal that GOP conservatives love to hate, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.

    Kennedy sprang to the president's defense on immigration -- "the president is right" --- and spoke out against "bumper sticker slogans that aim to divide us further."

    There you have it, fellow Americans, George Bush and Ted Kennedy, uniters not dividers.

    In an especially unkind cut from the president's own side, Newt Gingrich, the architect of the "Republican Revolution" before that became a term of derision, said the Republican Party was in collapse because Bush political adviser Karl Rove, and, by extension, the president himself, had run a "maniacally dumb" campaign in 2006.

    Gingrich said this in an interview with The New Yorker, not generally thought of as a Republican house organ, in which he also suggested that to win the White House the Republican candidate will have to run against Bush.

    Thus, the most interesting contest of the campaign may be President Bush versus his fellow Republicans. Don't worry, Mr. President. Ted will always be there for you.

    http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/j ... s-them-at/
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    Bush has been buddies with Kennedy all along!!! Ever hear of "no child left behind"? Bush is more like Kennedy than he is like the conservatives in his own party!

    Gingrich said this in an interview with The New Yorker, not generally thought of as a Republican house organ, in which he also suggested that to win the White House the Republican candidate will have to run against Bush.
    No matter how you feel about Gingrich, that is a brilliant and scathing statement! Satisfies my Bush hatred!!!

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