If you read Elisabeth Bumiller's paean to Bush in today's New York Times be prepared to hurl. Because what she knows that the rest of us don't know is that Bush doesn't really buy in to the GOP's immigrant bashing agenda. He likes them. He really does. Poor George has to get tough to appease the right wingers in his immigrant bashing party:
But the real theme of his speech was that the nation can be, as he phrased it, "a lawful society and a welcoming society at the same time" and that Congress could find a middle ground between deporting illegal immigrants and granting them immediate citizenship.No, Ms. Bumiller. What is remarkable is that Bush caved to the right wing pressure. He's tanking in the polls because he's not a leader. And immigration is just another example.
What was remarkable to people who knew Mr. Bush in Texas was how much he still believes in the power of immigration to invigorate the nation.
