President Bush Versus Rush Limbaugh On Immigration

This week there will be a battle brewing between President George W. Bush and national syndicated radio talk show hosts over the new immigration reform bill. President Bush, Senator John McCain and Senator Edward Kennedy have worked hard to find a way to write a new law that deals with the touchy issue of immigration reform that will be acceptable to both the extreme right and left wing in the United States. However, what happened shortly after this new law was proposed showed what tremendous power conservative talk radio still has in the U.S. today, but more importantly it shows how weak President Bush has become in the later part of his second term as our president.

I wrote last week that I support the conservative point of view on this issue because they are right when they say that no immigration reform program will work unless we first secure the border with Mexico. President Bush is flat out wrong with his ideas on this issue and a few years ago he would have been able to whip his troops in the Senate back into shape to follow his lead. However, now he is a weak president that does not have near as much political capital as he did a couple of year ago. The real people behind killing immigration reform are listeners to conservative talk radio because they would rather stop supporting there leader, President Bush, than to see a bad law hurt the United States of America.

Most true conservatives that I know are fed up with President Bush because he has made the choice to turn his back on them after years of loyal support. Many people have told me that they now believe that the loyalty President Bush is so fond of talking about is a one way street that only leads back to his doorstep. Rather than pardoning Scooter Libby from trumped up charges by an out of control special prosecutor, President Bush will return from his G-8 trip and start insulting his base supporters once again this week. This is the reason that I believe President Bush will lose even more support in upcoming polls because his loyal base if fading fast because of his lack of leadership and also his lack of loyalty toward those that helped him win in the first place.

This should be an interesting week as President Bush and conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh will square off again over the issue of immigration reform. To date, Rush Limbaugh has been reluctant to take the president on directly when it comes to immigration reform, but I have a feeling that this week might bring about a different approach from Mr. Limbaugh because last week he all but said that this bad immigration reform bill was dead. Now, President Bush is flying back to the U.S. to fight his base voters once again on an issue he will eventually lose. For a President the showed such promise in the days and weeks after 911, President Bush is well on the way to having both political extremes in America turning their backs on him before his term in office is concluded in 2009.

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Paris Hilton Drug Addiction Ignored In The Media

When Paris Hilton was released early last week from her 23 day sentence in an LA county jail for medical reasons, the first thought that went through my mind was that she might be suffering withdrawal from some kind of drug and/or alcohol. It is not uncommon for young people, like Ms. Hilton, to be hooked on some type of mind altering drug and not even know it because they have never been put into a situation where that drug has not been available for several days.

Last night I read that Paris has told her legal team to not pursue an appeal of her sentence and that decision on her part might mean that she has discovered that she does have a substance abuse problem and she is getting treatment for it in the LA county jail. Of course, this is just speculation on my part because I have not heard or read anything that points to a substance abuse problem in the media. We all know that Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan have recently been in rehab to address addiction issues in their lives and it is not a big stretch to think that Ms. Hilton might be suffer from the same problems since all three of these girls have partied together for the past few months.

While Paris Hilton is an adult in the legal sense of the definition, after watching her the past few days it is clear that she is far from an adult from a maturity point of view. Unfortunately, Ms. Hilton's mother seems to be more a part of the problem than the solution. Most likely, Paris Hilton's mother babied her daughter and she made the mistake of not telling Paris "no" enough while growing up. Now the mistakes of childhood are coming back to haunt Paris Hilton and her mother.

The next 45 days will be critical in Paris Hilton's life and she very well could be at a cross road that will determine if she grows up and becomes a good voice for young women around the world or continues to slide toward self destruction like Anna Nicole did several months ago. What Paris needs right now is a good dose of "tough love" which will not come from her family, but maybe the LA county sheriff's office will play the part of adoptive parent for her and hopefully save her life.

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