Dobbs to President: Do you take us for fools? (Lou Dobbs/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Lou Dobbs
CNN

Wednesday, May 10, 2006; Posted: 4:12 p.m. EDT (20:12 GMT)

NEW YORK -- Reports this week that the Border Patrol is notifying the Mexican government of the locations of Minutemen volunteers are being denied by US Customs and Border Protection. True or not the Bush administration continues to follow absurd policies on both issues of border security and illegal immigration.

President Bush continues to push his guest worker program and amnesty for anywhere between 11 million and 20 million illegal aliens, and he insists still that nothing less than what he calls comprehensive immigration reform is acceptable.

And the lies keep coming from both political parties. This president is not enforcing the immigration laws enacted by Congress, and this Congress is failing in its duty of oversight to demand that those laws be followed.

Only a fool, Mr. President, Senator Kennedy, Senator McCain, would believe you when you speak of new legislation. You don't enforce the laws now.

Would you do so if the law were more to your liking? Would you secure our borders and ports? Would you halt illegal immigration? Those are rhetorical questions, only, I assure you. The answers are obvious; obvious because of your conduct.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/10/dobbs.enforcement/index.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Hey Lou, Yes the bu$h regime does think the people are fools

That is what has allowed him to trample all over the Constitution and democracy so easily.

[saltpoint]

2. Apart from the fact that I don't like anything Bush stands for, I am

growing weary of Lou Dobbs' blathering on "our borders."

This is becoming a one-man crusade and the tone is real exclusional and a bit nasty.

I'm sorry, Lou Dobbs fans, but I'm just not into the guy.

[Nite Owl]

3. I am too

I can agree with him on some things but he fails to connect the dots. Our problems are far more than immigration policy.

[saltpoint]

4. Yep. I wish Lou would stop being such a Johnnie One-Note and

get on with it.

There are other fish to fry.

[lvx35]

5. I like him.

When I hear conservatives around me talking about how corporations are allowed to get away with anything, its Lou at work...He's opening some eyes and reaching into Bush's base, and raising hell. The immigration issue is the San Andreas Fault in the republican party, and Lou is breaking things up by making conservatives take a look, and realize that Bush does not have the interests of working folks in mind.

[saltpoint]

6. It is true that Lou's programs have had a negative impact on Bush.

I didn't exactly expect that, but you're right on the money with that, no question.

I would like to see the same level of attention given to other issues, though. I'd like to see him lay into No Child Left Behind, which is an enormous failure by the Bush administration.

Or global warming, which is in the big picture, a lot more important than most people in the media are allowing.

Dobbs is talented and forceful and influential. And it is putting the heat on a lot of conservatives.

[Acadia Blue]

7. Oh Goody!!! Go Uncle Lou, Go.

[yurbud]

8. Does a duck fart under water? Does the pope wear a dress?