This is from one of my comments on the
Guns and Badges diary.
If we are lucky, Bush will fall off his ATV
like he falls off his bike, and fell of the Segway. That would be a great visual. But we will probably get the "Cowboy War President" riding his trusty steel horse(he's scared of the live type of horse!) along the border, his steely eyes squinting against the glaring sun, personally holding back the hordes of illegals.
Meanwhile, hurricanes are hitting FL, and other places, and all the National Guard troops who would normally be assisting in the disaster zone are off having photo ops and patrolling the border with Bush.
more below the fold..LOL
On
Netscape news they have a story about Bush's visit to the border. I laughed when I read it, at least when I read this part..
Bush, who stopped along a portion of the fence line, climbed aboard one of the patrol's dune buggies driven by agent Rocky Kittle and grinned broadly as they raced off along the border in a cloud of dust.
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He later visited the Border Patrol's communications center in Yuma where about 30 TV screens showed various sites along the border from remote cameras.
"Were you able to see me riding in the dune buggy?" Bush asked an official, who told the president, "It looked like you were having a good time down there."
He is trying to have his cake and eat it too. But I don't think he will get away with it, since his phrasing of the problem is insulting to American workers.
"Instead of people trying to sneak across this border here, doesn't it make sense to have them come and do jobs Americans aren't doing on a legal basis so that the pressure is off our border?" Bush told Fox News.
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Bush is trying to build momentum after a Monday prime-time televised address on immigration. In addition to sending National Guard troops to the border, Bush wants a temporary guest-worker program for illegal immigrants, and to provide a path to citizenship for those who have lived in the United States for some time.
He is also, as I am sure you are all aware, stretching the National Guard so thin that there is a good chance very few of them will be available for disaster relief. And the citizens who usually depend on the citizen-soldier in times of natural disasters will have to depend on FEMA. And since I live in FL, I am not at all happy about that. Not at all.