http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/05/22/immigration-and-jeb-bush-and-florida/ Covering the 2008 election Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:59:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/05/22/immigration-and-jeb-bush-and-florida/#comment-34999 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:49:36 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/05/22/immigration-and-jeb-bush-and-florida/#comment-34999 [...] On immigration it is clear to me that all of our top-tier candidates with the exception, possibly but probably not, of Thompson would sign a bill different only in mostly insignificant minutaea from the one that the Senate is debating now. Rudy would add a totally unworkable exit surveillance program that would fail. Romney’s position seems to be to oppose the bill in name, but support it in substance, and just play politics. But they would sign it. So, for me, these people are playing politics, quoting Jeb Bush, "pounding their chests," on the 2nd most important moral issue that will be faced in the 110th Congress. (I find blather about amnesty to be deeply, deeply un-American and un-Christian. And, like Huckabee once said, I see more than a little racism in it. But that’s a digression, and I just had to get it off my chest.) [...] […] On immigration it is clear to me that all of our top-tier candidates with the exception, possibly but probably not, of Thompson would sign a bill different only in mostly insignificant minutaea from the one that the Senate is debating now. Rudy would add a totally unworkable exit surveillance program that would fail. Romney’s position seems to be to oppose the bill in name, but support it in substance, and just play politics. But they would sign it. So, for me, these people are playing politics, quoting Jeb Bush, "pounding their chests," on the 2nd most important moral issue that will be faced in the 110th Congress. (I find blather about amnesty to be deeply, deeply un-American and un-Christian. And, like Huckabee once said, I see more than a little racism in it. But that’s a digression, and I just had to get it off my chest.) […]

]]> http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/05/22/immigration-and-jeb-bush-and-florida/#comment-33022 Thu, 24 May 2007 02:30:34 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/05/22/immigration-and-jeb-bush-and-florida/#comment-33022 [...] Yesteday, I wrote about the possibility of Mitt Romney facing political problems in Florida because of his pandering flip-flop on immigration. ABC picked up on the issue, and pointed out that Jeb Bush was "disappointed." [...] […] Yesteday, I wrote about the possibility of Mitt Romney facing political problems in Florida because of his pandering flip-flop on immigration. ABC picked up on the issue, and pointed out that Jeb Bush was "disappointed." […]

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