Bush Throws a Bone to Conservatives

Bush Throws a Bone to Conservatives

In the wake of the horrible budget-crushing bills he has signed and the SCOTUS' decision to keep the ban on free speech he signed last year as a sop to big media and in hopes it would be struck down, President Bush tossed a bone to conservative voters today by rejecting the "blanket amnesty" for illegal aliens that was floated as a trial balloon last week.

Maybe the polls showed that this would be the last straw to conservative voters? Or maybe he out-maneuvered his Dem opponents once again by letting this trial balloon go up with the express purpose of shooting it down and courting the conservative vote once more.

Bush rules out 'blanket amnesty' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics

President Bush yesterday ruled out granting "blanket amnesty" to as many as 12 million immigrants illegally in the United States, but said he supports a policy that benefits American business owners and immigrant job seekers.

"We need to have an immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee," Mr. Bush said in a news conference yesterday.

"It makes sense that that policy go forward. And we're in the process of working that through now so I can make a recommendation to the Congress," said Mr. Bush about the politically dicey issue — made more urgent by his planned attendance at the Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico, next month.

But the president reiterated a stance he has enunciated often: "This administration is firmly against blanket amnesty."

Conservative Cookies Crumble Critics

FOXNews.com - Views - ifeminists - The Conservative Cookie Rebellion

Through Affirmative Action Bake Sales, conservative groups on campuses across America are satirically and peacefully spotlighting the injustice of AA programs that penalize or benefit students based solely on gender and race. The cookie rebels are being slammed by such a backlash that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) -- dreaded by many university administrators -- just shot "an opening salvo" in the rebels' defense.

Thor Halvorssen, CEO of FIRE, declared in a press release last Friday: "Parody and political satire are not illegal in this country. College administrators appear to be under the mistaken impression that protesting affirmative action is not covered by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Freedom of speech is a right enjoyed equally and fully by both supporters and opponents of affirmative action. . . ."

To regain the moral indignation they prize so highly, the politically correct must demonize the sale of baked goods. Thus, at Indiana University one student filed an official complaint, saying that the cookie sale would "create a climate of hostility against students of color and women and can easily turn violent." (The fact that those students were the ones given a price break didn't seem to occur to the irony-starved critic who equated a buyer's discount with a threat of violence. . . .)

Boss Tweed -- that symbol of political corruption from 19th century New York -- used to rail against cartoonists who parodied him without pause. Tweed knew he could politically survive anything except being the brunt of jokes. As with Tweed, so too with AA. That's the way the cookie and policy crumble.

NOTE: Actually, the cartoons upset Boss Tweed because, while his constituency could not read the damning articles written about his corruption, they could sure as heck understand the cartoons.