Bush could never have gotten a Republican Congress to go along with such an audacious scheme. But with the Democrats in charge, the situation has changed.
By Andy Selepak
For all of the media’s Bush-bashing, there is one issue where the liberal media, Bush, and the Democrats agree: amnesty for illegal immigrants. Proof of this collaboration is evident when the media continue to quote and praise one particular “Bushism” on the controversial topic.
In the March 12, 2007 issue of Time magazine, writer Massimo Calabresi quotes Bush from a 1999 campaign stop in Iowa as saying, “Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande.” Calabresi wrote that Bush’s words on the subject of illegal immigration showed “it was hard not to believe he [Bush was speaking from the heart,” adding that “the felicitous phrase became a touchstone of compassionate conservatism.”
This is one “Bushism” that the liberal media do like. In Orwellian doublespeak, illegal aliens have become “undocumented workers,” and “family values south of the border” have come to mean amnesty for those who break our laws.In one sense, Bush was right. Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande. But, the fact remains that the U.S. border does stop at the Rio Grande. Crossing it illegally makes a foreign national a criminal. Any worthwhile concept or discussion of “family values” should not condone lawbreaking.
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