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Did an obsessed Bush deliberately torpedo the GOP?

November 11, 2006

In the post-election wreckage, with the depressing prospect of a Pelosi led House delivering amnesty for illegal aliens to a gleeful Senate and President, Americans should be asking the question "Did George Bush deliberately sabotage his own party?" There is no question that Bush, Rove, Norquist et al. have had a great deal of animosity toward anyone in the Republican Party who supports secure borders. Not only have they withheld money from those candidates, but they have aggressively tried to defeat them in the party primaries. Would Bush sell out his own party because they denied him the "immigration accord" he wanted? On the heels of John Kerry's idiotic "stuck in Iraq" statement, why would Bush announce that Rumsfeld and Cheney would keep their jobs for two more years? Even he would know that the Democrat leaning media would use this as red meat to the American people to stop the Republican momentum after Kerry's blunder.

One day after the election, Rumsfeld was fired. Stunned Republicans wondered why the President didn't fire him weeks earlier. Rumsfeld showed up at the Press Conference grinning from ear to ear like the cat that swallowed the canary. Should we believe that the President whose most defining characteristic is his stubborn refusal to listen to the American people on anything - suddenly had a change of heart on election night, and found a replacement that fast???

That same day, Bush ebulliently announced that he would work with the Democrats for a "migration accord". something he wanted desperately for six years, but was denied by his own party. There is something fishy here, and as George Putnam says, "the fish stinks from the head."

Brian Hassler
San Diego

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