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No. I don't think they miss him at all, Gerard. They are probably waving bubbye, even as we speak.

Pity that family didn't miss the first two idiots as well. If they had, the USA would be better off by several trillion dollars and the lives of several thousand American soldiers, and there would be a great many fewer terrorists in the world. And, probably, the new King of Mordor (the old one having died in the rubble of his palace) would think rather differently about spreading fundamentalist mayhem.

Oh, and for the paleocons among you; the Empty Suit wouldn't have been elected as a response to Shrub II, either.

I believe there was a "Four Block World" diagram about that one, Fletcher. Something to do with...ObamaCare and Invading Iraq. Goal: ObamaCare: Get 30 million people covered. Goal of Invading Iraq, depose Saddam Hussein. Result of ObamaCare, mega-fail, result of Invading Iraq, Hussein == history. Or maybe I imagined it. If Tom McMahon really did draw that one up, and you saw it, your denial must be a bit thick. Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter if McMahon drew it or not, does it? Saddam's gone, and history says that's a whole bunch of problems we had in the 1990's that we don't have now. MoveOnDotOrg would like us to believe something else, but what of it. History is history and left-wing dipshits are left-wing dipshits.

Hey, now that I've raised the question indirectly -- when is the last time a left-wing plan, of any kind, did what it was supposed to do...as finally and as certainly as the Invasion of Iraq achieved what it was supposed to do? Has that ever happened?

Isn't he married to an Hispanic? THat might account for it.

Vote whore.

For the Left, it's always 1917 and the socialist utopia is always one more five-year plan away. They're stuck in amber, and stuck on stupid.

Bush I strangled Reaganism in its crib because he wanted his "Kindler and Gentler" country club horse shit. Bush II's "Compassionate Conservatism" was more of the same. The two Bushes did the equivalent to conservatism as Obama is doing to America, making the equivalent of unwanted and unnecessary "apology tours" for the non-sins of serious conservatism and principles of liberty. I will never forgive them for that, even after accounting for the comparitively forthright manner in which they confronted foreign evil.

Jeb Bush is married to a Latino. That probably accounts for it.

Too much noblesse oblige or something like that. I wouldn't have ever voted for him anyway--I don't like dynasties.

Dear Mr. Vanderleun: The crying towel is blinding Jeb, all right, but what's in your own eye? The Arizona law is draconian, and I support it as a last resort. The Left is slavering in expectation of the gaudy circus this law will provide. Al Sharpton is already bawling about Freedom Walkers in AZ. The press, having flatly failed to achieve what The One sent it out to do, e.g. destroy the Tea Parties, keep Scott Brown in MA, destroy Sarah Palin, etc. will seize this opportunity to give the works to the Right. The law will require the steadiest, most careful administration to prevent this from happening. My best judgment is that AZ is too big, with too many people, to keep the press from whipping up Selmas. I think it possible that in reaction to this law, amnesty will be rammed down our throats, Lindsey Graham being the weak sister this time.

I yield to no one in being dubious about the Bush family's achievements for this nation. I do think Jeb is right to be uneasy. Should the press succeed in setting this issue aflame, what will stop amnesty from happening? The GOP leadership that howled with Geo W. for amnesty in 2007? The Tea Parties, who want smaller government which the press will promptly report as "open borders"? Outraged public opinion? These are mighty weak reeds to rely on.

Sincerely yours,
Gregory Koster

Mr. Koster: If I am correct, the Arizona law parallels federal law. Like many state civil rights statutes do.