Senate Cabal Sweet Talking for Amnesty Say: Of course, I'll Respect You in the Morning
Barbara Anderson


June 18, 2007
President Bush incorrectly gauged the tenor of the average citizen when he told them that if they didn’t buy his amnesty plan they just didn’t want what was good for the country. Even those in his own party felt bullied and insulted by his remarks.

Now, President Bush has come back as an ardent swain to court public opinion, but this time saying that he is promising something that he never had before: real border security. Of course, he has promised something before. In the last Congress, a bill calling for about 700 miles of fencing passed, and people thought a fence would be built. The president signed the bill. As of today, several months later, only about eleven miles have been built and those who survey the border say there is no building activity going on.

The amnesty bill the president is pushing now has some cute language in it. When it mentions the fence it says it will be built “subject to the availability of fundsâ€