This is also about the disconnect between the big money folks that run the Republican party and the hordes of poor folks that vote republican despite the fact poor people tend to be generally screwed by the right. Its about time this got highlighted, too bad it has to be on immigration instead of something more like education cuts so the oil industry can get an $8 billion dollar tax break.

Gee, how quickly virtue is foresaked for political gain.

Easy there, Rove, oops, I mean, Sam, you don’t exactly have anything passed yet.

He’s not running, he doesn’t give a sh#t what his supporters or his opponents think and he never has.”

Exactly. Whatever happens Bush knows he’s still running the show since the Dems don’t have enough to overturn a veto. They send him proposals, he vetoes, then its back in their court. They have two options at that point:

a) Cave and pass something Bush approves of and look like pussies or
b) Don’t cave and face further vetoes. Then they look like obstructionist pussies.

This whole immigration thing must be a real rough thing for your average FOX news regular. On the one hand they have immigrants, the one minority group they are allowed to openly revile. On the other you have big business who is supposedly on your side yet seems to LOVE illegals for the tremendous cheap labor they bring to the table. Whats a black and white world conservative to do?

I think its a good time for the left to start getting support from these big companies using all this cheap labor since they seem to have some common ground for a change. It would leave sheer away a lot of big money from the ultra conservatives towards moderate politicians. Companies win, moderates and left win, immigrants win, immigrant haters lose. Sounds like a plan to me.

Noonan is a little late in her column- all of those other issues which have been eating at her should have pushed her to write it as soon as it became apparent that the CIC was a power-hungry, divisive, incompetent.

This entire immigration debate will hurt Bush more than I initially anticipated.

News flash! Nothing can hurt Bush anymore!

He’s not running, he doesn’t give a sh#t what his supporters or his opponents think and he never has.

He’s the decider dangit! Pretty scary stuff eh? Almost makes you wish Dick was still in charge.

In January 2005, she advised the Democrats to become more like Republicans if they wanted to win elections.

In March 2003, she wrote a lyrical column about how the American victory in Iraq would mean “a triumph of activism over fatalism”.

In September of 2005, she defended the President in the aftermath of Katrina: “Is the Bush Era over? No, no, no. It has three more years. That’s a long time. History turns on a dime. There is much ahead, and potential for progress.”

You can look at her archive If you’d like. She did seem to grow unhappy with the President as the 2006 election approached.

I guess it’s news that even Peggy Noonan think President Bush has squandered all his opportunities. But while he was doing the actual squandering, she was in support of him and what he was doing.